... administration of former President Benigno Aquino III.
Creating new mining deals will also spur employment opportunities in rural areas, as well as provide support to its flagship infrastructure program, ...
Yahoo Finance
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte officially lifted a nine-year ban on new mining projects Thursday, in a controversial move aimed at boosting state revenue and spurring investment in ...
Edgardo Ayala - IPS
The installations of the silver mine located in the rural municipality of San Rafael Las Flores, in Guatemala, have been closed since 2017, as the result of a Constitutional Court ...
Sandra Cuffe: New Republic
Alejandro Guevara hasn’t slept. There was a death in La Maraña, and Guevara, the vice president of the community environmental association, spent the night at the wake. Still, ...
U.S. TRADE DEALS MINE GREED NOT GOLD
By Dominique Paul Noth Editor, Labor Press Posted June 8, 2012 Wisconsin’s myriad issues with businesses controlling mining legislation may not yet make the ...
... written into international trade deals. Foreign companies used these courts to pressure governments into voiding criminal convictions against their executives for offenses including embezzlement, fraud, ...
... committed to digging up the gold dust that lay beneath those forests, rivers, and communities. They began to throw money around to the mayor and host all manner of happy public events to promote the ideals ...
... the one hand, and on the other, by connecting the case to on-going international campaigns on related issues. These included debates around new free trade deals like the TPP and TTIP; how mining and water ...
... CEO — a letter that is also a wake-up call for President Trump's trade agenda.
The letter highlights the problems with the so-called "investor-state" provision in trade deals, first created through the ...
... for a reflection to continue the legacy and work of the three environmentalists assassinated for their ideals, and invited all to unite and leave their differences against the false promises of this mining ...
... mining projects. They also highlighted the absurdity of Canada’s ongoing praise of international trade deals and the assertion that they will contribute to economic development in countries like El Salvador. ...
Robin Broad & John Cavanagh : inequality.org
In a tale of people power over corporate power, a tribunal has ruled against a global company in a case over mining rights. Now we need to block trade deals ...
Anna Backmann and Christian Wimberger: CIR
People taking part in the delegation from the United States, Canada, France, and Germany together with workers of the organization ADES.
El Salvador, November ...
... the threat these deals pose to our future, will help galvanize the broad-based public pressure on lawmakers needed to do just that.
- Janet Redman directs the Institute For Policy Studies’ climate policy ...
... about delays in the concession of environmental permits’, and specifically deals with the case of Pacific Rim, saying that the company was already considering an arbitration against El Salvador”, lawyer ...
... a glimpse into what can likely be expected if controversial trade deals like the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) and Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) go through. With strong “investor ...
... of corporate-friendly provisions buried in trade deals like the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a secret tribunal is on the brink of issuing a ruling any day that that could force the Central American country ...
... businesspeople and mining companies, it is not farfetched to suspect — and it merits further investigation — the closed door deals that could be taking place in the midst of the electoral campaign to put ...
... it is not farfetched to suspect – and it merits further investigation – the closed door deals that could be taking place in the midst of the electoral campaign to put in place the conditions for metal mining ...
... Tyee: Mining Abuses the ‘Defining Fight of Our Lives’: Barlow
Milwaukee Labor Press: U.S. Trade Deals Mine Greed not Gold
NACLA: Pacific Rim Ruling Threatens El Salvador’s National Sovereignty ...