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1. More than one hundred organizations reject the unjust payment of USD $31 million to Canadian mining company Bear Creek
(Regional News)
... organizations call for the annulment of sentence against Aymara spokesperson in the Peruvian Supreme Court and reject the unjust payment of USD $31 million to Canadian mining company Bear Creek.   In ...
Created on 16 September 2018
2. Why Canada is at the centre of global mining atrocities
(Mining and Human Rights)
... points out, the Canadian government is heavily invested in the mining sector, which explains its lack of meaningful action on this issue. It bears a striking resemblance to the Stephen Harper government’s ...
Created on 12 May 2021
3. Canada’s Mining Industry Is Spreading Havoc Around the World — With Justin Trudeau’s Support
(Mining and Human Rights)
... precedent-setting lawsuit. The files paint a picture of overbearing corporate influence, political interference, and widespread intimidation and abuse. In Brazil, Toronto-based Belo Sun Mining is moving ...
Created on 07 May 2021
4. WATER IS LIFE. CAN WE PROTECT IT?
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... bear kinship with the Salvadoran water defenders are already active in many parts of this country. In Alaska, Native groups linked with conservationists to halt the giant Pebble Mine, which would have ...
Created on 28 March 2021
5. Canadian Mining Companies Are Devastating The Global South
(Mining and Human Rights)
... operated by Bear Creek Mining, a Canadian company. The Peruvian government eventually cancelled the mining concession, but Aduviri was hounded for years by court cases brought against him by public prosecutors ...
Created on 21 January 2021
6. The state of Siege in Izabal and Alta Verapaz: shelters, poppies, and the fear of repression
(Regional News)
... as a kind of pilot plan to see if the cocaine business can bear fruit in the Republic of Guatemala, "he said. To date, the National Civil Police reports 12 detainees by order of capture or flagrant crime, ...
Created on 22 July 2020
7. Guatemalan Water Protectors Persist, Despite Mining Company Threats
(Regional News)
... livelihoods, and values that these communities are defending. Meanwhile, arbitration processes can bring terrible pressure to bear from outside on these local struggles, serving as yet another vehicle ...
Created on 03 May 2020
8. Governor Aduviri must remain in jail
(Regional News)
... 2011, Aymara residents, led by former leader Aduviri, rejected mining concessions granted to the Santa Anan Sylver mining project owned by Vancourver based Bear Creek Mining. The Puno Court of Appeals ...
Created on 26 December 2019
9. Criminalisation brought to new extremes in case of Aymara indigenous communities in Peru
(Regional News)
... Puno region in 2011 against the proposed Santa Ana mine - an open-pit mining project located near the border with Bolivia. The project was owned by the Canadian mining company Bear Creek and plans were ...
Created on 28 August 2018
10. 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
11. EL SALVADOR’S WIN AGAINST THE US MINING COMPANY PACIFIC RIM: A VERY NUANCED VICTORY
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... ruling gave hope that, in cases where a company has not complied with national regulations, it is possible to get a ruling in favour of the state.  However, another fundamental issue to bear in mind ...
Created on 28 December 2016
12. Pacific Rim tried to negotiate with the government anticipating and adverse ruling
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... so they requested the court to delay issuing the award for 30 days, with the hope that the talks bear fruit with the Salvadoran government." "For me it was a surprise because neither I, nor government ...
Created on 26 September 2016
13. Resistance against the bloodsucker
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... voice, Rivera continues to speak – creating a distance, in order to bear re-telling the experience. “In a water well we found the corpse that had been tortured, the fingernails had been ripped out by force. ...
Created on 03 January 2016
14. SECOND MUNICIPALITY DECLARED FREE OF METAL MINING IN EL SALVADOR
(Territories Free of Mining)
... Galvez continues, “we have witnessed the obstacles that the government is having to implement a permanent prohibition on mining and we can no longer wait for that strategy to bear fruit.. we have to go ...
Created on 01 December 2014
15. Debunking Eigth Falsehoods by Pacific Rim/OceanaGold in El Salvador
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... tribunal. OceanaGold operates an open-pit gold-copper project in the Philippines that illustrates the costs of mining that Salvadorans do not want to bear. These facts respond to eight “falsehoods” ...
Created on 18 March 2014
16. Chalk Up Another Victory for "Free Trade": Mining Companies Sue El Salvado
(2013 Fact Finding Mission)
... much to the point, and worth bearing in mind when we consider how Commerce Group and Pacific Rim laid out their cases against El Salvador—specifically, by citing protections the Central American Free Trade ...
Created on 08 July 2013
17. Crime in Cabañas
(Mining and Human Rights)
... that we are going to shed light on the human loss caused by to the environmental struggle,” he affirmed. Nevertheless, the investigations of the National Civil Police do not appear to bear fruit.  Nor ...
Created on 20 March 2012

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