... president admitted that he had only joked about riding a jet ski to Panatag Shoal and planting a Philippine flag there to assert the country’s territorial integrity amid its dispute with China over the ...
... suspended the mining licence because there had not been prior consultation with affected communities, as is required under Guatemalan and international law, in particular the International Labour Organization’s ...
... walked away too and it has since been labeled a “time bomb”. There have been five emergency declarations due to the high levels of heavy metal contamination in the Moche river from acid mine drainage, ...
... 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 ...
... objectivity and independence, and under all the criteria studied, it found that the detention of the eight environmental defenders is arbitrary for three reasons:
1. First, because there is no legal ...
... 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 ...
... very good background and history of the Cerro Blanco mine can be found on the Environmental Justice Atlas website, here, EJAtlas – Cerro Blanco. There is information in both English and Spanish and, though ...
... due to the low price of coal making their operations “economically unviable”. This has raised the alert for several national organizations, because there is no “progressive closure plan respectful of international ...
... While the province is governed by a strategic environmental plan that bans mining, there has been an increase in mining applications, said ELAC executive director Grizelda Mayo-Anda.
“Existing mining ...
... write, “there was more to Sáenz Lacalle than Opus Dei. The archbishop held a degree in chemistry. He knew well the toxic impact of cyanide. And with that knowledge, he did a 180-degree flip on mining.” ...
... Salvadoran civil war, there were few influential families linked to the sector. Since domestic elites in tourism and agriculture depended heavily on water, many supported the defenders or at least refrained ...
... a plan by OceanaGold to enlarge its mining site by 832 acres. The existing site is a vast area of deep holes, tall rock piles, smothered creeks and cleared land. Recent drone footage, taken by a photographer ...
... DeScherer, an attorney with the non-profit Southern Environmental Law Center, said his group wants to ensure there are “sufficient plans and funds in place to safely reclaim the mine site when mining is ...
... in fossil fuel firms, retrofit and weatherize millions of homes, and upgrade our water infrastructure.
There is an opportunity to do just that as our nation emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic. After ...
... that already was in place. He was the one that actually led people to travel to Honduras to see the devastation of mining there through another old mining site in El Salvador. And that's what made people ...
... 85/2020, the Working Group stressed that there is no legal reason for the use of pre-trial detention in the case of defenders José Daniel Márquez Márquez, Kelvin Alejandro Romero Martínez, José Abelino ...
... rules and norms and therefore holds the power to override local decisions.
Even so, limits to internal democratic decision-making in the PZ are also significant. Honduras Próspera LLC selects four of ...
... there is a breakdown in the operations that they are unable to prevent."
According to a statement issued on Thursday, the Haile Gold Mine has hired an independent third-party to audit the mine's environmental ...
... three times,’’ the one-time Lancaster County representative said. “It makes me worry that there is a breakdown in the operations that they are unable to prevent.’’
The Haile mine issued a statement Thursday, ...
... being in extractive and financial industries. In 2018, there was $56.6 billion in Canadian mining assets across South America. Almost half of the world’s public mining corporations are traded through the ...