Oxfam
This assessment conducted by Oxfam discusses the social, environmental and economic costs of metals mining in Central America. The prices of metals are very unstable and mining practices produce ...
We think of gold as a sign of prosperity, but the farmers and communities most affected by mining just want their rivers and land back.
by John Cavanagh, Robin Broad
First published in: http://www.yesmagazine.org/blogs/john-cavanagh-and-robin-broad/the-real-cost-of-gold-in-the-philippines ...
The costs of ICSID arbitration and the consequences for the enjoyment of social rights in El Salvador
February, 2012
By the Foundation for Studies on the Application of Law (FESPAD, a Member of the ...
Mining arbitration has cost $5 million
El Salvador has faced a current suit by Pacific Rim and one that was thrown out by the ICSID. The pending arbitration demands that the country pay at least $77 ...
The Environmental and Social Costs of Pacific Rim in El Salvador
As Pacific Rim continues with its law suit demanding millions of dollars from the Salvadoran Government, the economic costs resulting ...
... to responsibly analyze the high costs of metallic mining and exercise its right to say “No". Nevertheless, despite El Salvador's environmental vulnerability, the clear threat posed by metal mining and the ...
... a Castillo government that would seek higher taxes on mining is "becoming more of a reality," Rohan Reddy, Global X vice president, and research analyst, said by phone.
Higher taxes would raise costs ...
... its costs to our nation: finite natural resources, biodiversity, and cultural heritage.
These are invaluable and incalculable, certainly not for one generation to gamble with at the expense of others ...
... to mine or pay more than $300 million to cover not only its costs but the future profits it would forgo. The water defenders and their allies responded by mounting an international campaign to put the ...
... and similarly low compensation obligations for damage caused by mine waste and tailings. “That leaves all mines prone to ‘externalizing’ environmental costs,” Dulce said. “In other words, polluters will ...
... the almost-seven-year-long Pac Rim lawsuit against El Salvador at the ICSID. Pac Rim sued the Salvadoran government for not issuing them a mining permit. It took the ICSID six years and 10 months—and cost ...
... the Dunedin City Council said this week it was replacing several kilometres of old pipes in the area at a cost of about $6million, council Three Waters group manager Tom Dyer included OceanaGold’s Macraes ...
... of one year, during which the PZ can terminate their Residency without cause. Terminated Residents have 180 days to vacate the zone before being evicted.
The cost, requirements, and subjective selection ...
... We will also explore the growing role played by third-party funders in international disputes. Third-party funding allows an investor to bring a claim without the fees and costs associated with that claim ...
... now seeking $92,000 in costs.
OceanaGold has faced allegations of ecological devastation elsewhere. VICE World News previously reported how OceanaGold’s Didipio mine in the Philippines resulted in polluted ...
... to cutting costs, this is presumably part of the company’s strategy to pressure the community to cease their strike.
Late last week, the community agreed to lift its encampment to advance talks, but ...
... according to the alert, “together with the state, through military and judicial harassment, they are forging ahead at all costs with the iron ore project that threatens the water sources for tens of thousands ...
... governments pressured by the lobby of the mining industry seek to silence the protests and use the current crisis to promote changes in national regulations that favor mining activities, at the cost of ...
... of mining projects were allowed to continue. As such, companies like Anglo American have been working with almost total normality while the majority of the population has assumed the costs of quarantine. ...
... Lack of drinking water sometimes forces the purchase of bottled drinking water, which in turn generates additional costs for poor communities.
A few meters from the river is the house of Edwin Cisneros, ...