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21. Looming threats to the mining prohibition in El Salvador
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... government of El Salvador: US based Commerce Group for $100 million and Pacific Rim Mining (later OceanaGold) sued for $301 million US at a World-Bank housed tribunal, the International Centre for Settlement ...
Created on 08 February 2018
22. Mining company continues lobbying efforts to repeal Anti-Mining Law
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... This contamination is the outcome of the past mineral extraction. The members of CRIPDES point out that Commerce Group, the company responsible for the acid drainage, "has disappeared". Thus, it is impossible ...
Created on 14 November 2017
23. PRESS RELEASE: Not to the blackmail of Pacific Rim Mining/Oceana Gold
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... that Metal Mining could be a development vehicle for El Salvador, and that investment in that industry would solve the fiscal problems, as heard through the American Chamber of Commerce at the mining conference ...
Created on 26 September 2016
24. Yes to life, no to mining! – Report Back Delegation to El Salvador
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... km to the East of San Salvador. In the mine of San Sebastian, in the Department of La Union, the US company Commerce Group mined gold until the outbreak of the armed conflict at the beginning of the 1980s ...
Created on 03 February 2016
25. El Salvador: 49 exploration permits were once approved
(Background and reports )
... exploitation of minerals that are still under consideration, according to the OIR. The applications were submitted by mining companies Commerce Group Corp. for the San Sebastian mine in Santa Rosa de ...
Created on 07 January 2016
26. Arcatao Community Consultation
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... San Sebastian 11:30am – Lunch in Santa Rosa de Lima, La Union 12:30pm - Visit to the San Sebastian mine, a mine abandoned by US based Commerce Group that highlights the toxic legacy of mining in El ...
Created on 30 September 2015
27. Nueva Trinidad: 3rd Municipality in El Salvador to Declare Itself a “Mining Free Territory”
(Territories Free of Mining)
... to two corporations; Pacific Rim, now Oceana Gold, and the Commerce Group. Oceana Gold is currently suing El Salvador for $301 million in a World Bank arbitration tribunal. As the Salvadoran government ...
Created on 18 April 2015
28. El Salvador’s struggle against corporate impunity
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... by the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in June 2011. This approach is notably supported most vigorously by corporations: the International Chamber of Commerce praised them for their “flexible” and “pragmatic” ...
Created on 20 October 2014
29. Media coverage of the International Month of Action
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... Wisconsin-based Commerce Group Corp purchased a gold mine near the San Sebastian River in El Salvador and contaminated the water. Now, according to Lita Trejo, a native Salvadoran and school worker in ...
Created on 29 September 2014
30. News Summary international campaign against OceanaGold
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... itself, nothing is more precious than water. Just ask the people of El Salvador. Nearly 30 years ago, the Wisconsin-based Commerce Group Corp purchased a gold mine near the San Sebastian River in El ...
Created on 25 September 2014
31. A corporate warning to El Salvador: Give up your gold or pay $315 million
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... to keep going,” said Escobar, in reference to Commerce Group Corp., a Wisconsin-based outfit that stopped mining for gold in San Sebastian in 2006 after permit difficulties. “My kids never get better—they’re ...
Created on 06 August 2014
32. Incoming Minister of the Environment confirms continuation of mining moratorium in El Salvador
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... announcement was made at a regional gathering of anti-mining activists in San Salvador organized by the Research Center on Investment and Commerce, a member organization of the National Roundtable against ...
Created on 29 May 2014
33. El Salvador, violence and impunity
(Mining and Human Rights)
...  Salvadoran NGO the Centre for the Investigation of Investment and Commerce, part of the Roundtable against Mining, reports that recent cyber-attacks on its website originated in Guatemala. Meanwhile ...
Created on 13 February 2014
34. OPEN LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE WORLD BANK
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
El Salvador is being sued by Pacific Rim Mining, a Canadian based corporation owned by Australia's OceanaGold, before the International Center for the Settlement of Investments Disputes –ICSID-. The ...
Created on 13 January 2014
35. About mining in El Salvador
(Water no Gold)
... where mining operations are located. The community of San Sebastian, where US Corporation Commerce Group has its operations, is currently enduring the long term health impacts of acid drainage leaching ...
Created on 06 November 2013
36. Letter to the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... while leaving disease, poverty and misery in countries where minerals are exploited. Mining companies like Pacific Rim and Commerce Group, are suing the Salvadoran state for more than $ 400 million in ...
Created on 01 October 2013
37. OCEANA GOLD AND EL SALVADOR
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... moratorium, two mining corporations (Commerce Group based in Wisconsin, US, and Pacific Rim Mining, based in British Columbia, Canada), are suing the current government for over US$ 400 million under the ...
Created on 20 August 2013
38. July 22, 2013 Global Day of Action Against Open Pit Mining: The National Roundtable Against Metallic Mining reiterates demand for legislation prohibiting metal mining in El Salvador
(Media Releases)
... It is no coincidence that current tax laws of El Salvador allow mining companies to keep 98% of their earnings; that investment laws and trade agreements have allowed companies, like Pacific Rim and Commerce ...
Created on 22 July 2013
39. Reform to article 15 of the Invesment Law: Assertive legislative action
(FTAs & ISDS)
... withdraw its ICSID membership to avoid law suits such as the ones launched by Pacific Rim and Commerce Group that require our government pay hundreds of millions in compensation for denying permits to ...
Created on 22 July 2013
40. The Rights Clash
(Commerce Group)
... Sebastian mine. In 1977, a Milwaukee, Wisconsin-based mining company called Commerce Group closed its operations there. In the years since, bedrock exposed during mining caused acid drainage, which has ...
Created on 15 July 2013
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