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1. Gold mine fined $100,000. Toxic air pollution found at big mine near tiny town: (OceanaGold); ... most recent enforcement action, the Haile Gold Mine and a contract laboratory have been fined nearly $128,000 for violating environmental rules in recent months. In September, DHEC announced it had fined ...; Created on 12 February 2021
2. International Week of Action Free the Santa Marta 5: (Free the Santa Marta 5); ... multinational mining companies. Despite the lack of evidence, the Water Defenders were quickly sentenced to six months of pre-trial detention on trumped-up charges related to an alleged crime from nearly ...; Created on 08 April 2023
3. El Salvador’s Historic Metal Mining Ban Is in Danger: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... in neighboring Guatemala, which is owned by Canadian company Bluestone Resources. A recent referendum found that 89 percent of locals from nearby Asunción Mita opposed mining activity due to environmental ...; Created on 06 April 2023
4. 250+ Groups Call On El Salvador to Drop Charges Against Water Defenders: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... water defenders have pointed out that "the allegations against them have major holes and contradictions, President Bukele's near-total control over both the judiciary and the prosecution casts serious doubt ...; Created on 20 January 2023
5. El Salvador: Metallic Mining Threatens Again: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... for the nearby town of El Estor daily. According to the residents of Valle de Syria in Honduras, the San Martín mine, in nine years of operations, dried up 19 of the 23 original rivers in the area. And ...; Created on 14 December 2021
6. In Guatemala, Harris Should Address U.S. Policies That Put Corporations Over People: (Mining and Human Rights); ... backing that mining companies in Guatemala have long enjoyed. Early on the morning of May 21, nearly 40 police patrol trucks, including an anti-riot unit, showed up outside the mine gates where community ...; Created on 07 June 2021
7. Community and environmental concerns not “pertinent” to Pan American Silver’s business: (Mining and Human Rights); ... that the expansion caused. Over forty families were uprooted and moved to a “Residential Unit” that adjoins the mine site, where the company exercises near complete control over daily life. On top of these ...; Created on 17 May 2021
8. Pan American Silver Pressured to Shut Down Community Interference in Guatemala: (Mining and Human Rights); ... nearly 4,000 people are calling on the Vancouver-based company to halt all community activities in the Central American country. In mid-April, activists delivered a petition to Pan American Silver urging ...; Created on 12 May 2021
9. Canada’s Mining Industry Is Spreading Havoc Around the World — With Justin Trudeau’s Support: (Mining and Human Rights); ... of activities of such corporations operating abroad. Before Trudeau became prime minister, the Liberals promised to establish an independent ombudsperson on mining. But Trudeau’s government waited nearly ...; Created on 07 May 2021
10. Gov’t finalizing terms for OceanaGold’s FTAA renewal: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... be returned to the Office of the President for review and approval in the near-term… We look forward to working with stakeholders and Government officials to safely restart operations and continue the ...; Created on 05 May 2021
11. El Salvador’s Water Defenders and the Fight Against Toxic Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... the Salvadoran government nearly $13 million in legal fees and expenses—to rule against the mine. The ICSID based its ruling on the very legal issue that Barrera had pointed out during a National Action ...; Created on 11 April 2021
12. Families complain about big SC gold mine, citing danger and community disruption: (OceanaGold); The State Sammy The reality of living near a gold mine is a worrisome thing, says Angel Estridge, whose family owns property less than a mile from a pond full of nasty mining waste. She fears that ...; Created on 02 April 2021
13. Gold mine expansion could produce $2.5 billion. But environmental problems linger: (OceanaGold); ... are the latest in a series of environmental troubles to surface about the mining operation. Since last summer, DHEC has fined the gold-digging operation nearly $128,000 for violating environmental ...; Created on 30 March 2021
14. WATER IS LIFE. CAN WE PROTECT IT?: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... river system that provides water for over half the country’s population. Over the past two decades, this river system was threatened by a giant mining company that wanted to mine gold near the rivers. ...; Created on 28 March 2021
15. Disputes against governments under investment treaties: a growing trend in the mining industry in 2020: (ISDS); ... new in the mining sector. Since the late 1990s, nearly 50 cases concerning mining concessions have been brought before the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), one of ...; Created on 06 January 2021
16. Puno: An indefinite strike announced due to mining contamination in the Coata River: (Regional News); Wayka Arsenic and mercury were found in the bodies of people in the districts near the Coata river basin, in the Puno region, which is being contaminated by mining tailings. Local leaders claim that ...; Created on 28 December 2020
17. A Canadian Mining Giant Is Quietly Ramping Up Work in New Zealand. Locals Are Worried: (OceanaGold); ... mining giant is preemptively ramping up its operations in and around protected land on New Zealand’s North Island, local conservationists and residents say. Waihi, a town of nearly 6,000, sits at the ...; Created on 17 December 2020
18. U.S.-Backed ANDA Appointment Threatens the Salvadoran People’s Water Resources: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... Despite the 2013 success in combating the pressure, former U.S. Ambassador Mari Carmen Aponte later insisted on reforms to the new law. Near the end of 2017, the Legislative Assembly approved reforms to ...; Created on 01 December 2020
19. Canadian corporate greed on display in Mexico mining dispute: (Regional News); ... Equinox Gold, failed to uphold its agreement with the nearby community of Carrizalillo, a small town of about 3,000 people. Equinox blames the community for the shutdown, but in reality, the company and ...; Created on 28 November 2020
20. The hidden connection between a US steel company and the controversial Los Pinares mine in Honduras: (Regional News); ... received from the Honduran government. But in 2018, the company began building an access road to the planned mine site, which it will use to transport iron oxide to a pelletizing plant in the nearby city ...; Created on 28 November 2020

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