... indigenous territories.
Wealth outpours to secure corporate profit at the expense of indigenous rights to land and environment protection. Imperialist plunder dominates over people’s health and lives. ...
... of millions of dollars in unearned profits.
In its $400 million claim, which is currently proceeding at a World Bank Group tribunal, the Nevada-based KCA argues that the Guatemalan government failed ...
... El Tambor gold mine — or compensating the mining firm for hundreds of millions of dollars in future profits it had little hope of ever earning.
“KCA bought the project knowing there was social conflict ...
By Manuel Perez Rocha - Foreign Policy in Focus
Wealthy corporations may use trade courts to keep public health measures from cutting into their profits.
The country was in freefall. Formerly middle ...
How the Global Mining Industry is Profiting from the COVID-19 Pandemic
This report provides in-depth cases to exemplify the four trends highlighted in the international open letter “Global Solidarity ...
... and the United States) puts new limitations on investor claims. For example, claims cannot be made for indirect expropriation, which is used by companies to get “compensated” for profits it expected to ...
... is negligible compared to the profit margin for these companies. The mining sector in the Philippines employed 212,000 Filipinos in 2018, and in 2017, paid $529.6 million in national and local taxes, fees, ...
... Climate Strike, we as the National Alliance Against the Privatization of Water express the following: The world is in a global crisis, climate change, caused by a system which prioritizes profit over the ...
... profit of $12.4 million.
Bahag also revealed that Oceanagold did not fulfill its promise of providing a potable water system, as stipulated in a memorandum of agreement between the company and the local ...
... an Australian-Canadian company, is one of dozens of transnational mining companies in the Philippines that have been reaping profits by mining gold, silver, copper, and other minerals. Its underground ...
... of Central and South America.
“If multinational corporations are able to work together globally on the basis of profit, we (affected communities) should be able to work together on the basis of solidarity” ...
... legal and political tactics, an elite foreign interest is profiting at the expense of people and planet," stated Laura Martin, Executive Director of the Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada (PLAN). ...
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Indirect Expropriationwas invoked in over half of the cases. This is especially egregious since it relates to so-called expropriation of anticipated future lost profits, rather than the physical seizure ...
... effect pressures the government to restart the mine, or otherwise pay the company hundreds of millions of dollars in lost potential profits.
CAFTA-DR, like thousands of other international investment ...
... of multilateral institutions designed to guarantee their profits at the expense of the common good.
Milagro Guevara, Adjunct Ombudswoman for the Environment from the Office for Defence of Human Rights, ...
... as the sugar cane industry) in the interior of the country; in addition to exercising control of ANDA to privatize its most profitable activities.
We are convinced that one of the main oligarchic groups ...
... of artisanal miners in the community of San Sebastian, La Unión. We also demand from the Ministry of the Interior that it proceeds to de-register the El Dorado Foundation from the Registry of Non-Profit ...
... mining companies, Pacific Rim and the Commerce Group, sued the government of El Salvador for $400 million in unrealized profits. The cases were heard by the World Bank’s International Center for Settlement ...
... State the payment of 250 million on the basis of potential profits lost due to not having received the government permits to carry out the El Dorado gold mining project, constituted an act of blackmailing ...
... miner OceanaGold. The suit, filed in 2009 by OceanaGold predecessor Pacific Rim, based in Vancouver, alleged loss of potential profits after the company failed to meet regulatory requirements to receive ...