The Conversation
Giada Ferrucci
Two men shot Arnold Joaquín Morazán Erazo to death in his home in Tocoa, Honduras, one night in October 2020. Morazán was an environmental activist and one of 32 people ...
... look at the steps the government is taking to renew a defunct mining sector.
“We are concerned these arrests are politically motivated and intended to silence the overwhelming opposition to mining in ...
... victims. “The arrests are politically motivated as they seek to silence these water defenders and to demobilize community opposition at this critical moment,” the Institute for Policy Studies, a progressive ...
Common Dreams
Jessica Corbett
Critics warn that the Salvadoran government is "desperate for revenues" and trying to "demobilize potential grassroots opposition" to reversing a historic nationwide ban ...
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The company has publicly stated that there is local support for the project and that any opposition comes from external sources.” But last May, local organizations collected more than 4,000 signatures ...
El Financiero
A dozen mayors from Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras expressed this Tuesday their opposition to the exploitation of the Cerro Blanco mine in Guatemala for contaminating the strategic ...
El Financiero
A dozen mayors from Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras expressed this Tuesday their opposition to the exploitation of the Cerro Blanco mine in Guatemala for contaminating the strategic ...
... rights violations. The provincial government has time and again declared its opposition to the mining operation. As Nora, a Tuwali-Ifugao, laments, “The mountain I used to see is no longer there. All I ...
... Convention 169.
Even after the eviction in 2014 and the court ruling in 2016, members of La Puya continued a 24-hour presence in opposition to the mine.
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... its involvement in the Navidad project given clear and unwavering social opposition in Chubut.
Rising tensions and violence against community members is also a concern at the company’s suspended Escobal ...
... interest and profit even in the face of people’s opposition.”
The presence of foreign companies in resource extraction is part of a long history of colonization in the Philippines that continues today, ...
... them permission to operate in spite of overwhelming local opposition.
Over the past two decades, thousands of articles, reports, documentaries, and books have detailed Canadian mining abuses abroad. ...
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Aside from its pending FTAA renewal, OceanaGold has also been facing opposition from the local government unit (LGU) of Nueva Vizcaya for its project.
In 2019, Nueva Vizcaya Governor Carlos Padilla ...
... the authors write, Canadian gold-mining company Pacific Rim and its allies deployed sleazy tactics to overwhelm opposition and win a license to mine. Astroturf protesters were paid to pose as members of ...
... and Indigenous people, Morrison said on April 16, because “OceanaGold has been found to have committed serious human rights violations”.
OceanaGold started mining in Didipio in 2013, despite opposition ...
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Rallying industry When he assumed office in 2016, Duterte was outspoken in his opposition to mining, which he blamed for degrading the environment. He imposed a ban on open-pit mining in 2017 and appointed ...
... in the region, and thus no opposition to mining. A local mayor from the right-wing ARENA party promoted landfills and industrial hog farms as “development” projects. Local opposition organized against ...
... first-hand about abuses by the same mining company, OceanaGold, in his province.
Against extraordinary opposition, these communities convinced their government in 2017 to become the first in the world ...
... of their opposition to OceanaGold, and sought assistance from the Canadian embassy in Manila, their requests were not addressed,” said Coumans.
Coumans added, “At the same time, we still do not have ...
Manila Standard
Brande Jocson
Nueva Vizcaya Governor Carlos Padilla reiterated his province’s opposition to the mining operations of Oceanagold Philippines Inc. (OGPI) and FCF Minerals Inc., telling ...