... with tens or hundreds of millions of dollars in suits related to gold and silver projects that communities have spent many years fighting, facing criminalization and threats to defend their water, health, ...
... US companies (RDV and TECO) and is currently subject to other arbitration claims for hundreds of millions of dollars.
BACKGROUND
Since 2011, the communities of San José del Golfo and San Pedro Ayampuc ...
... than one hundred national and international organizations have publicly denounced the criminalization of protest in Peru. The case of Aduviri is emblematic of the widespread judicial persecution and generalised ...
... the cost of natural resources, especially water. A few examples:
In the historic case of the plantation, El Espino, just north of El Salvador´s capital city, hundreds of acres of forest and coffee ...
... mining interests. On another hot Salvadoran morning, hundreds of people gathered in San Isidro’s central park for the event, titled, “Exigimos el Derecho Humano al Agua, No a la Propuesta Privatizadora ...
... of Investment Disputes, ICSID, for $100 million US dollars.
The company abandoned the community of San Sebastian shortly after losing its permit leaving hundreds of unemployed, a local river contaminated ...
... interests hovering over them. Nonetheless, the demonstrated tenacity and ability of Salvadorans to draw literally hundreds of organizations around the world to join them a they to defend their preference ...
... on Corporate Accountability, and – with the support of tens and hundreds of thousands of Canadians over the years – has continuously fought for a such an oversight body, as well as for legal accountability ...
P. Cabezas
More than one hundred member organizations of the Alliance Against the Privatization of Water in El Salvador mobilized throughout the country to deliver letters to regional Legislative offices ...
... to pay.
The suit — and lack of a thorough government investigation into the murders — strengthened the resolve of the anti-mining movement and gave them the moral high ground. Hundreds of local and national-level ...
... of Mexico and Central America, which has enriched foreign corporations and domestic elites for hundreds of years. The gold veins run through the north of El Salvador, right through the Lempa River watershed, ...
... ban. But in other countries, where no such moratorium has existed, and where hundreds of permits or licenses have already been given, once communities and governments begin questioning the extractivist ...
... we asked him how he’d come to opposing mining. He pointed to our water bottle and said “Just like you, water is our priority.”
In the years since, we’ve met hundreds of people in Cabañas who have risked ...
... Mr. Orellana.
"For the right to this land, we have paid with our blood and the blood of hundreds of our relatives that were massacred here, and we will defend this land with our blood, if necessary, from ...
... of OceanaGold: even during the exploration stage, their operations ‘eased out’ community opposition through the torching of hundreds of homes, the strafing of barricaders with bullets, and ultimately through ...
... demanding compensation for not being able to drill in El Salvador. This article explains the case between Pacific Rim and El Salvador, and how Pacific Rim has used CAFTA to demand hundreds of millions ...
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“OceanaGold claims it is committed to improving conditions in local communities, but this is absurd when the company is suing El Salvador for hundreds of millions of dollars in a process designed to ...
... homes for decades; and, the lack of prospects for employment have forced hundreds of members of the community to practice artisanal mining under unsafe working conditions and utilizing practices that allow ...
... one of the hundreds of climate activists arrested while protesting the Keystone XL pipeline outside the White House. So when the president finally pulled the plug on the project last November, it felt ...
... rain, on Thursday October 22nd the sun came back to shine on hundreds of community members and organizations as they gathered for a protest in front of the World Trade Center in the elite Colonia Escalòn ...