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1. Public statement of the Local Governments of Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador, members of the Lempa River Trinational Border Association, regarding the “Cerro Blanco” mining project, developed by the ...: (Cerro Blanco); The Governments and Local Authorities of Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador, represented hereby are members of the Lempa River Trinational Border Association, and also the "Trinational Network for the ...; Created on 12 June 2022
2. Guatemalan Mine Threatens the Lempa River: (Cerro Blanco); Guatemalan Mine Threatens the Lempa River The Lempa River is the main source of surface water in El Salvador and provides drinking water for over 60% of the entire population, including the city of San ...; Created on 11 September 2012
3. PRESS RELESE: Environmental Organizations Dennounce Privatization of Water in El Salvador: (Media Releases); ... in the country. It does not develop a sustainable watershed management system at the national level, nor it establishes measures aimed at the protection and conservation of the Lempa River. Despite the ...; Created on 23 December 2021
4. Ostúa River contaminated with lead and arsenic from Cerro Blanco mine: (Cerro Blanco); ... Lempa River, the most important fresh water supply for Salvadorans. "We have found that lead exceeds international water quality standards. This is already an existing danger for the aquatic life of ...; Created on 21 April 2020
5. Study reveals the threats of the Cerro Blanco mine: (Cerro Blanco); ... due to the high content of toxic metals and the reduction of the water flow. Both water streams above, provide water for the Guija Lake, the main head of the Lempa River. “We have been observing ...; Created on 26 December 2019
6. Marcelo's Legacy: The environmentalist who fought against metal mining in El Salvado: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); by Eduardo Barahona / Karla Rodas: Vanguardia El Salvador is the first country in the world to ban metal mining in its entirety, in March, 2017; but who were the precursors of this victory? It could ...; Created on 18 September 2019
7. Mining Grabs Up Land, Deals Blow to Agriculture in Central America: (Background and reports ); ... For example, the Cerro Blanco mine, located in the Guatemalan municipality of Asunción Mita, bordering on western El Salvador, is part of the Ostua-Guija-Lempa basin. The pollution generated by the ...; Created on 07 May 2019
8. Uncertainty in communities of Asuncion Mita due to the imminent reopening of the Cerro Blanco mine in Guatemala: (Cerro Blanco); ... El Salvador. And from there the remnants of the process, heavy metals and other pollutants, would reach the Lempa River, which sig sags throughout the country and is the main source of water for 60% ...; Created on 03 May 2019
9. Rural Communities’ Struggle Against US-Owned Mine Continues in Guatemalan Supreme Court: (Regional News); ... operations in El Salvador in 2002, and quickly identified a gold reserve along the Lempa River in the department of Cabañas. In accordance with the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), the company ...; Created on 27 August 2018
10. El Salvador: first anniversary of the mining ban A cause for celebration, but the new law faces dangers: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); Andrés McKinley - UK LAB On March 29th, 2017, the small country of El Salvador became the first nation in the world to exercise its sovereign right to say “no” to metallic mining after carefully analyzing ...; Created on 22 June 2018
11. Threats to the Law Against Metallic Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... expressed that the issue should be addressed regionally, since important rivers such as the Lempa, the main watershed in the national territory, are shared across the region and can be contaminated from ...; Created on 07 May 2018
12. How El Salvador Won on Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... In Cabañas, the Canadian company Pacific Rim in 2002 acquired the El Dorado gold mine near the rural town of San Isidro, and started exploring. El Dorado was located in the Lempa River basin, whose ...; Created on 07 May 2018
13. Lack of proposals from political candidates on the Environmental Crisis in El Salvador: (Media Releases); ... rescue the Lempa river, but they contradict themselves when it comes to the economic approaches required to implement these reforms. For example, in regards to investments and the creation of employment, ...; Created on 08 February 2018
14. A year with a bitter taste in environmental matters in El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... of land and have destroyed what previously were forests, protected mangroves and basic grain crops in, said Patrocinio Dubón, president of the Lower Lempa Water Association. In addition, water defenders ...; Created on 01 February 2018
15. Open letter to Oceana Gold: (Open Letter OceanaGold); ... in the area where your company was conducting its operations. Over these past seven years, we have actively supported Salvadorans and their government in their fight to protect the fragile Lempa watershed, ...; Created on 30 November 2017
16. How Local, Grassroots Organizing Drove El Salvador’s Mining Ban: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... imposed a temporary nationwide mining ban in 2008. The move scuttled the ambitions of the Canadian firm Pacific Rim, which had hoped to mine gold in the watershed of the Lempa River, El Salvador’s main ...; Created on 26 June 2017
17. Historic Wins for Democracy and Rights in El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... 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, ...; Created on 26 June 2017
18. El Salvador – When The Seeds Of Resistance Bloom: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... In 2004, after two years of searching for gold in El Salvador, the Pacific Rim Mining Corporation requested permits to begin mining close to the Lempa River. After several years of negotiations, political ...; Created on 23 June 2017
19. All Endorsers: (Open Letter OceanaGold); ... Económico y Social del Bajo Lempa, ACUDESBAL Asociacion Para el Desarrollo de El Salvador, CRIPDES Asociacion Para el Desarrollo Social de Santa Marta, ADES Asociación Nueva Vida Pro-Niñez y Juventud ...; Created on 28 December 2016
20. Solidarity rally in Toronto as decision released in OceanaGold v. El Salvador case: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... Salvador has one major watershed, the Lempa River, which supplies water for over half the country's population. The proposed mine would threaten this watershed through both use of water and contamination. ...; Created on 10 November 2016

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