... is legal because the notification to the commission regarding the injunction was delivered three days after the consultation took place. In addition, there is relevant jurisprudence in three previous consultations ...
... rights of Guatemalan citizens to be consulted on important matters that could affect their lives and territories.
Sowing division in the communities
Following the results of the consultations where ...
... of Neighbors of Asunción Mita reported that during Sunday´s vote, 27.91% of the registered voters participated.
Guatemala has carried out 180 municipal consultations on metallic mining projects. There ...
... resources by extractive industries. They submitted five requests for public consultations and held demonstrations in front of city hall. They also erected a “Camp in Defence of Water and Life” to block ...
... oxide mine.
By 2017 the Municipal Committee for the Defence of Public and Common Goods had been created and called for public consultations so that community members could decide whether they wanted ...
... for the assets.
The injunctions – which have also derailed Solway Investment Group’s Fénix nickel mine and Kappes, Cassiday & Associates’ Tambor gold operation – have hinged on the lack of prior consultations ...
... response to their request for a dialogue.
July 15, 2015 -- A constitutional court rules against the mine and directs the company to hold community consultations with those who are impacted by the mine. ...
... The owner Daniel Kappes and the firm’s lawyer have argued that they held a consultation; but Judge Angelica Noemi Tellez Hernandez clearly states that the firm did not hold consultations with the affected ...
... told IPS while moving about in the kitchen set up in an improvised camp, which IPS visited on Apr. 29.
The lack of prior consultations with the communities where such projects are installed is a recurrent ...
... An email response by staff member of Presidential Coordination Office states in a typical bureaucratic fashion that “we are doing internal consultations to inform you about the status of the situation ...
... that the university began, two years ago, to develop a proposal for a bill prohibiting metallic mining. After a lengthy process of consultations with civil society organizations and other key actors, the ...
... mining activity in their jurisdictions, with support from the anti-mining movement, and the vast majority of voters have opposed it.
As a result of these consultations, they adopted municipal ordinances ...
... lawyers, had heard anything from the Pacific Rim Company," said Parada.
Faced with such a request and after the respective institutional consultations, the Attorney General's Office (FGR), who is also ...
... a total of four consultations in the Department of Chalatenango. In order to assure the complete coverage of the whole region, other six referenda of the sort should be set up in neighboring municipalities. ...
Consultations, or municipal referendums in which the voting population asserts their preference on the issue. The first three Consultations took place in 2014 in San Jose Las Flores, San Isidro Labrador, ...
... in El Salvador follows several community consultations that have occurred in Central America, such as in the municipality of Santo Domingo in Honduras and the municipality of Mataquescuintla in Guatemala. ...
... to organize, educate and collect signatures in order to petition municipal councils to hold consultations on mining.
Following the request by community organizations, municipal councils must vote on ...
P. Cabezas
Anti mining activists poised to organize at least ten more consultations in the Chalatenango region by the end of 2015.
September 21st, marked another historic day for San Jose Las Flores, ...
HOW TO SUPPORT THE INTERNATIONAL MONTH OF SOLIDARITY
Have your organization endorse an open letter to the CEO and President of OceanaGold.
Sign a petition asking OceanaGold to leave El Salvador. To ...
“CHALATENANGO FREE OF MINING”
Community Consultations on mining in El Salvador
September 2014
Communities in the department of Chalatenango have been at the forefront of organized opposition to ...