... be said that one of the biggest environmental victories in the world was won in a small country, which for many decades was classified as one of the environmentally worst, not knowing that within its lands ...
... closures of the abandoned mines and remediation measures for environmental damage, remain absent. The government of the FMLN (Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front) had two years to enact these measures ...
... and more.
DOWNLOAD REPORT HEREA new report by the Institute for Policy Studies, MiningWatch Canada, and the Center for International Environmental Law, “Extraction Casino: Mining Companies Gambling ...
PRESS RELEASE: National Roundtable Against Metallic Mining
For many years El Salvador has faced serious environmental degradation provoked in its majority by industrial processes of big corporations. ...
Alfredo Carias: Vanguardia
In the midst of an important victory in El Salvador, an evaluation of the social and environmental conditions in the country contrasts to the achievements obtained with the ...
... it to be installed again", said Domingo Miranda, at the commemoration ceremony of the eighth anniversary of the murder of environmentalists in San Isidro, Cabañas.
Eight years after the murders of Marcelo ...
Francisco Coto - La Opinion
For 13 years, Vidalina Morales and other environmental activists, led constant fight against a Canadian/Australian mining company which threatened the north of El Salvador. ...
... and demands the reopening of the discussion on the General Water Law proposed by environmentalist movements in 2006.
“We want to express our deep rejection of the Integral Water Law proposal presented ...
Public Citizen Global Trade Watch
The Commerce Group Corporation attacked El Salvador’s environmental policies under the CAFTA when the company’s environmental permits for gold mining in Northeastern ...
... and environmental consequences of mining in El Salvador, an already water-stressed country, and leaders and organizations began to express concerns. The firm responded by filing a claim under the CAFTA ...
... communities, organization that defend human rights, mining companies and public authorities. This report gives a voice to human rights defenders who are fighting for their right to land and a clean environment ...
Earthworks and Oxfam America
Mining has harmful effects on communities and their surrounding environment. Open-pit mines cause environmental destruction by deforestation and leaching harmful chemicals ...
... of the Environment and Natural Resources, MARN, revoked an exploitation permit issued to the company in 2002. MARN withdrew environmental permits in 2006 after conducting an environmental evaluation of ...
... the 6th anniversary of the gruesome murder of environmental activists who opposed a gold mining project in their community.
“We are here to denounce the incompetence of the Salvadorean Government for ...
Toronto (Canada), May 12 (EFE Noticias) .- The Ombudsperson for the Defense of the Rights of Environment of El Salvador, Yanira Cortez, began a tour of Canada today to talk about the case of OceanaGold ...
... of the murder of five environmental activists in Cabanas.
“We are here to celebrate lives of those who died for their opposition to the El Dorado mining project” said Alejandro Guevara, an anti-mining ...
As the celebrations for World Environment Day concluded around the world on June 5th, Salvadoran environmentalist were left relishing a rarely felt sense of victory after a demonstration of more than 8000 ...
Statement signals the posibility of achieving a mining prohibition during the tenure of incoming president Salvador Sanchez Ceren
by P. Cabezas
Incoming minister of the environment and natural resources ...
* Translated from http://nuevaweb.diariocolatino.com/impulsaremos-la-sustentabilidad-ambiental-en-el-pais-angel-ibarra/
Environmental leader Angel Ibarra, with a career spanning over twenty years working ...
... environment.
This effort is meaningless if we consider that extractive projects, such as metal mining, destroy our planet every second of the 365 days of year with the consent, permission or omission ...