Presentation: We Demand a Law that Bans Metallic Mining in El Salvador
San Salvador, March 5, 2012
At a forum organized by the National Roundtable against Metallic Mining in March, Dr. Angel Ibarra ...
... and non-indigenous—that depend on these natural resources for their income and cultural practices.
Precisely because of these consequences, South Cotabato’s Environmental Code bans open-pit mining, ...
... be fooled by the pretext that reopening our natural resources to large-scale mining would help revive the pandemic-battered economy as it would inflict serious damage than repair,” Fernando Hicap of Pambansang ...
... interests have been pressing the authorities to lift mining bans in the region. A wave of fires, which local people believe were the result of arson, have destroyed land that indigenous communities had ...
... company’s case when El Salvador refuses to back down; El Salvador bans mining when its legislature responds to years of campaigning by activists who refused to be cowed by the brutal murder of their leader. ...
... While the province is governed by a strategic environmental plan that bans mining, there has been an increase in mining applications, said ELAC executive director Grizelda Mayo-Anda.
“Existing mining ...
... are within the territorial jurisdiction of Nagtipunan under Batas Pambansa 345, which established the municipality in 1983.
He added that the Bugkalot-Ilongot tribe had also been known to traditionally ...
... law to increase transparency to any arbitration in which the Peruvian Government is involved. The amendment, for example, bans ad hoc arbitration in almost all cases involving the State, and establishes ...
... other emergency public health and economic policy responses to Covid-19—such as production mandates or exports bans for medical equipment, or reducing tariffs on medical device imports—may provoke retaliatory ...
... all open-pit mining in 2010. Mining is also outlawed in high-altitude wetlands vitally important to water supplies in Colombia. And at least half a dozen provinces in Argentina have passed bans on industrial-scale ...
... after community, majorities voted to impose bans within their borders.
The anti-mining movement was able to bridge deeply partisan divides and rally supporters with the slogan “No to Mining! Yes to Life!” ...
... Mining, La Mesa).
Members of the National Roundtable Against Mining met with the Legislative Assembly to present a letter demanding the return to the study and adoption of the bill that bans metal mining ...
... in each municipality in protection of our environment, but now we want the Legislative Assembly to take charge and decree a law that bans mining operations at the national level, with our presence we want ...
... that bans metal mining in the country.
In 2009 civil society organizations and communities presented a bill to the Legislative Assembly against mining, but up until now there have been no advances in ...
... waving.
El Salvador is worried about environmental damages, and therefore bans the mining of raw materials. A Canadian company files a lawsuit before an international court of arbitration in Washington ...
Oliver Ristau*: Deutsche Welle / Translation: Marina Bonetti
El Salvador wants to protect its environment and therefore bans mining. The population supports the plan, on the other hand, a Canadian company ...
... official discourse, demand a law that bans metallic mining.
We are sending a message to all of those who have the responsibility as well as the local and national authority to preserve and protect the ...
... rights of the Salvadoran population, the government should urgently promote a law that bans metal mining given the enormous risks that it entails to the country.
San Salvador, August 10, 2013
National ...
... in 2006.
We reject dangerous and false solutions!
We demand the immediate approval for a law that definitively bans metallic mining in El Salvador!
For a copy of the press release in Spanish see ...