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21. Letter of support for defenders of "La Puya" ...: (La Puya International Support Letter); ... US companies (RDV and TECO) and is currently subject to other arbitration claims for hundreds of millions of dollars. BACKGROUND Since 2011, the communities of San José del Golfo and San Pedro Ayampuc ...; Created on 26 February 2019
22. From Mining to Water: 25 years of Community Solidarity and Organizing: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... of the ARENA/ANEP law consists of one executive representative, 2 representatives of COMURES (an ARENA dominated group of mayors) and 2 representatives of ANEP. While ARENA claims that their law is not ...; Created on 24 August 2018
23. “Latin American Countries exposed to law suits from transnational comporations: Manuel Pérez Rocha: (Regional News); ... the geographical distribution of claims worth billions of dollars presented to date. 29% of these demands are against Central and South America countries; not including Mexico” .“If we make a comparison, ...; Created on 10 May 2018
24. Historic Wins for Democracy and Rights in El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... bear witness to OceanaGold’s irresponsible mining in his province and publicly to discredit the company’s claims of “responsible mining” there.14 On March 29, 2017, members of the Legislative Assembly—some ...; Created on 26 June 2017
25. Social Movements Demand Blunt Action to Prohibit Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... for making further claims, rather, we believe that the government of El Salvador has been kind enough to OceanaGold, throughout this process as the lawsuit against the country was always unjust" he stressed. ...; Created on 15 February 2017
26. Pressure Mounts on El Salvadoran Legislature to Ban Metal Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... multi-partisan support. However, voices in the pro-business community are starting to respond to the prospect of a mining ban. One commentator, Paolo Luers, writing in ElSalvador.com, claims that with ...; Created on 13 February 2017
27. PRESS RELEASE: Release the Verdict Now!: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... and dangerous foundation in that claims to do “social responsibility” work, but is really a PR front for the company that could be laying the foundations for violent conflict. It is now seven and a half ...; Created on 06 October 2016
28. Staying alert for the ICSID resolution: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... Bank tribunal heavily influenced by large corporations who use there to extort States when they have no access to their lucrative claims. So all sectors must be alert of the ICSID resolution, to reject ...; Created on 26 September 2016
29. NEW BOOK: Rethinking Bilateral Trade Agreements: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... organisations, the private sector, civil society, think-tanks and academia - in this process. Huge claims “Almost all investment treaties include a so-called ‘Investor to State Dispute Settlement mechanism’ ...; Created on 11 May 2016
30. Setting the Record Straight: Debunking Ten Common Defenses of Controversial Investor-State Corporate Privileges: (ISDS); Public Citizen In order to counter the increased critiques of the investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) system, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative has declared that many of the claims are ...; Created on 30 April 2016
31. Myths and Omissions: Unpacking Obama Administration Defenses of Investor-State Corporate Privileges: (General mining reports ); Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch Investor-state dispute settlement system empowers foreign corporations to bypass domestic courts, challenge government’s public interest policies before extrajudicial ...; Created on 30 April 2016
32. Myth and Realities of Mining Central America: (General mining reports ); Caritas El Salvador This article discusses four myths that are told by the mining industry in order to justify their activities in Central America. First, that the current technologies used in mining ...; Created on 23 April 2016
33. PRESS RELEASE: Mining, Corporate Social Responsibility, and Conflict: OceanaGold and the El Dorado Foundation in El Salvador: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... “OceanaGold claims it is committed to improving conditions in local communities, but this is absurd when the company is suing El Salvador for hundreds of millions of dollars in a process designed to ...; Created on 23 March 2016
34. In the Keystone Suit, It’s Big Oil vs. Democracy: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... lives and livelihoods were being put at risk. A vibrant national movement grew up around these frontline forces, making citizen opposition to Keystone abundantly clear. Yet TransCanada claims it had every ...; Created on 02 February 2016
35. El Salvador presents new motion prior to the relasing of the verdict on the Pacific Rim case.: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... claims before the panel. At the end of these allegations, Luis Parada affirms that they asked the tribunal to consider the re-opening of the interim decision that was issued two years before, since time ...; Created on 26 October 2015
36. The lawsuit that could put El Salvador in check: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... decision not to give it a concession to exploit gold. The Salvadoran government claims the exploitation could contaminate the scarce water resources that the nation has. The initial demand made by ...; Created on 30 September 2015
37. Amid TPP Fight, El Salvador Mining Case Shows Danger of Corporate Tribunals: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... with the case," according to a press release from MiningWatch Canada. The company claims that under the Central American Free Trade Agreement, it has the right to sue the Salvadoran government for passing ...; Created on 18 May 2015
38. Final round for PacRim and El Salvador: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... corporation claims to have the right. Salvadorans, meanwhile, argue that the concession never existed. Yesterday’s proceedings were the latest in a series of arguments that began to unfold last week ...; Created on 23 September 2014
39. A corporate warning to El Salvador: Give up your gold or pay $315 million: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... the government of El Salvador denied the company a permit to mine and all other administrations have continued to deny permits since. The company claims the denial is an unfair rejection of investors’ ...; Created on 06 August 2014
40. EARTH DAY 2014: El Salvador faces critical environmental challenges: (Media Releases); ... while forcibly evicting communities and people who have historical claims to those territories. In the north, the planned construction of hydro electrical dams such as El Cimarron, El Tigre and El Chaparral ...; Created on 23 April 2014

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