When it Comes to Mining, the Canadian Government has a Closed Door Policy, Even to Canadian Citizens
On Wednesday June 13, the National Roundtable against Metallic Mining (the Mesa) held a rally in ...
... strong and clear public rejection of this industry, there are worrying signs that suggest that the government of Nayib Bukele, with its puppet Legislative Assembly, are considering opening the door to ...
... in the town of San Isidro, in Cabañas, by going door-to-door to collect donated books. They built a few shelves in their family’s living room and called it the San Isidro Foundation for Culture and the ...
... knocked on the doors of unlikely allies. Most of those people didn't originally want to see the water defenders, but at a certain point, they listened. We have a stereotype of activists. We think of them ...
... its statement, when the Honduran Congress named the park a protected area in 2012, mining and related activities should have been prohibited. But questionable reforms to the law opened the door to the ...
... out of his bed. They then proceeded to go to the houses of the other Garífuna leaders, smashing doors and windows and physically assaulting relatives who attempted to stop the kidnappings.
Alberth Centeno, ...
... detention despite the fact that the charges they face - aggravated arson and unjust deprivation of liberty - do not require this measure.
She reaffirmed this decision in November 2019 during a closed-door ...
... annual shareholder meeting of London-registered mining giant Anglo American took place behind closed doors on May 5th 2020. The company is the owner of the Quellaveco copper mine in the Moquegua region ...
... Law on the Prohibition of Metal Mining, approved by the Legislative Assembly in 2017. Also, environmentalists are concerned about attempts to reform the regulations to open the doors to mining companies. ...
... Magsasaka at Manggagawa Inc. (Sapakkmmi), recalled an incident when unknown men forcibly entered their house while they were away. Simongo said they found their home with the door still locked, shoe prints ...
... some proposals contemplate only to simplify paperwork for companies through several means such as repealing articles in legislation, or reforms to the Public-Private Partnership Laws to open the doors ...
... the doors of the Progreso VII Derivada mining project. Communities of the departments of Jalapa and Santa Rosa have permanent picket lines in the community of La Soledad Grande and in the municipality ...
... central government to weaken its regulatory requirements.
But the company’s backdoor efforts failed. In response, Pacific Rim launched a US$250 million lawsuit with the World Bank alleging lost potential ...
... and 77 percent has demanded that the government take immediate measures to close the door to this industry, according to surveys by Central American University José Simeón Cañas.
It was in this context ...
... eligible voters’ signatures.
The recruitment of outspoken supporters was a necessary step that helped to energize the campaign. Over several months, volunteers went door to door in all four towns that ...
... beginning. She hopes El Salvador’s monumental victory will reverberate around the world.
“It is a momentous step in the history of a country as small as El Salvador, that opens the doors to be an example ...
... used to separate gold from mined rock. The PDDH officials discovered that the locks, simple padlocks, had been cut and evidence that the door had been forced open on one of the containers.
While the conditions ...
... the discussion. Faced with the refusal of legislators to close the door on mining operations in the country, the inhabitants of the above-mentioned municipality also presented 500 signatures to the mayor ...
... alleged charity programs are clearly to advance and raise the reputation of the company and try to open the door for mining; that is what we found in the discourse of El Dorado Foundation of Oceana Gold ...
... these cases is often decided behind closed doors in unaccountable tribunals — like the World Bank’s International Center for the Settlement of Investment Disputes, or ICSID.
While the Pacific Rim case ...