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Pacific Rim President's Claim that He Wants to Help El Salvador Leaves Many Unconvinced
A lengthy article featuring Pacific Rim CEO Tom Shrake published on June 19th by the Toronto based Globe and ...
... would be a disaster for the nation’s already contaminated water supply. Unlike many Latin American countries that court extractive investments from transnational companies, El Salvador has no metal mining ...
... before the country finally banned the industry.
One of those arrested, Antonio Pacheco, is the director of the Association of Economic and Social Development (ADES), one of many organizations in northern ...
... suffer the worst consequences. At Cerro Blanco, the company has proposed a filtered tailings storage facility will be built in dangerous proximity to communities that would be banned in many countries ...
... from the rest of the removed material, as such its use in mining has been prohibited in many countries such as the United States, Turkey, the Czech Republic, Argentina, among others.
12. That although ...
... yucca, we let the earth rest.
Today the climate crisis is reflected not only in Latin America, we are also seeing it in the north, in Germany, in the United States. I harbor the hope that it will helps ...
... of strategic aquifers while water defenders in localities like Valle de Ángel in Apopa, the La Labor community in Ahuachapán and many others are accused of terrorism, persecuted and imprisoned.
Faced ...
... said Claver. The act “opens up the whole Philippines mining industry to the fullest level of control by investing foreign companies.”
“The belly of the beast” There are some glaring reasons why so many ...
... abroad. And, as you might expect, many of those projects involve shady corporate practices and violations of human rights.
There have been an astounding number of conflicts at Canadian-run mines. Pick ...
... to the highest social and environmental international standards and considers Didipio the template for responsible mining globally,” he added.
In October last year, as many as 496 employees at the Didipio ...
... the collapse of the rule of law. In the remote regions where many environmental resources are found, development projects are often backed by a toxic mix of political corruption, organized crime, and unchecked ...
... also revealed how many governments were taking extraordinary steps to suppress protests in mining contexts, as well as how companies and governments were taking advantage of the crisis to establish new ...
... fight. A corollary of this lesson: Some in the private sector can emerge as comrades in a struggle that many perceive as anti-corporate. Granted, the water defenders in El Salvador had an advantage over ...
... for The State, revealed a gold digging operation similar in scope to many western U.S. gold mines.
As it expands the mine site from 4,552 acres to 5,372 acres, OceanaGold would dig up nearly 100 acres ...
... would occur at one of the few gold mines in the eastern United States. The open-pit mine is a vast area of gaping holes and cleared land similar in scope to many western U.S. gold mines.
Haile’s expansion ...
... bear kinship with the Salvadoran water defenders are already active in many parts of this country.
In Alaska, Native groups linked with conservationists to halt the giant Pebble Mine, which would have ...
... than 50% of the water to the country. And for them, as for water defenders, in many other countries, water is life. Water is more precious than gold. So a group of water defenders from all over the country ...
... commission retracted its request.
“Although many details are blacked out, these records paint a damning picture,” says Emily Dwyer, Coordinator of the Canadian Network on Corporate Accountability. “Canadian ...
... of vote-by-land ownership. By then, the PZ will have likely entered many contracts that would be difficult to reverse, as the passage of any rule that terminates an existing contract will require the vote ...