... exploitation permit at the El Dorado mine, in San Isidro, Cabañas.
These events allowed the Legislative Assembly, in March 2017, to unanimously pass the prohibition of metal mining in the national territory. ...
... team expected that their charges would be dismissed. This time however, the judge transferred the case to a military court where the lawsuit was allowed to proceed and bail for the defendants was denied. Although ...
... for the development and construction of the mine, 26 of whom refused. The company then reached out to arbitrators. In the end, some residents settled with the company, four families were ultimately allowed ...
... treasures).
Founded in 1994, the company is basically dedicated to developing technology to recover and commercialize wrecks of sunken ships, a business that allowed them to be listed in the New York ...
... decisions have no obligation to respect any precedents.
"It is a misrepresentation of the concept of justice, where companies are allowed to interpose their petty interests above and without complying ...
... February 14, 2017 by then-Philippine Secretary of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), Gina Lopez. The agreement that allowed OceanaGold to start mining is a 25-year Financial and Technical Assistance ...
... and the use of slave labour. Yet there are rarely any consequences for companies where they are headquartered and allowed to raise most of their money – namely, in Canada.Successive Canadian governments ...
... of blackmail to try to undermine Court decisions, as well as the peaceful resistance and rights of local communities, should not be allowed. Unfortunately, we have already seen such arbitration used for ...
... (CICIG by its initials in Spanish).
We call on KCA and the Guatemalan government to refrain from intimidating the Constitutional Court justices and that the cases currently before them be allowed ...
... addition, people in the communities near the reforestation sites were outraged that OceanaGold had been allowed to cut down (or submerge in tailings ponds, as we also saw for ourselves) native hardwoods, ...
... and criminalization for defending human rights and above all the right to say no to projects that threaten our life, environment, biodiversity and cultural diversity.
Particularly, the meeting allowed ...
... left without maintenance and many families who were allowed to build their houses in the company´s property were left without title to the land where they have lived for decades now.
When the company ...
... 2013 and 2015 Pedro Cabezas was responsible for coordination between the international allies and the Roundtable in El Salvador. For him, having this dedicated coordination role allowed them to improve ...
... existence of these investment rules in the Central America version of NAFTA (called CAFTA) and in the Salvadoran investment law allowed the mining company to retaliate with an investor-state lawsuit, claiming ...
... the proper regulation and technology, mining operations and investment should be allowed in El Salvador. Another editiorial from ElSalvador.com, says that for a poor country like El Salvador, investment ...
... face of the threat of PacificRim / OceanaGold, God allowed the justice of man to go together and achieve a victory that belongs to you, because it was here were resistance to metal mining initiated and ...
... Dorado project. Instead, it sued the government, demanding compensation for future profits foregone.
Given the circumstances, ICSID shouldn’t have accepted the case, but it allowed it to proceed. In ...
... El Salvador. During this time the government has spent more than US$13 million in legal costs in a suit where the company attempts to obtain more than US$300 million in compensation for not been allowed ...
... could pursue the lawsuit under the now amended Article 15 of the Investment Law of El Salvador which, at the time, allowed any foreign corporations to bypass the local judicial system and utilize the ICSID ...
... could pursue the lawsuit under the now amended Article 15 of the Investment Law of El Salvador which, at the time, allowed any foreign corporations to bypass the local judicial system and utilize the ICSID ...