... of the Central American territory, as such we express to the national and international public opinion.
Extractive industries are transnational corporations working in collusion with governments and ...
... Resistance La Puya condemned the act of intimidation on May 21 in a public statement denouncing the use of police “to protect the economic interests of foreign extractive companies.” In the same communiqué, ...
... administration is reducing nature to a commodity—a thing to be consumed, a means to a capitalist end. Reflective of a typically patriarchal, exploitative, and extractive mode of doing business, its mining ...
... of the use of the national Police (PNC) to protect the economic interests of foreign extractive companies.
We denounce the intimidation by the PNC taking place since 7 o’clock this morning.
The Peaceful ...
... companies have seen a warm welcome from the Philippine government. “By government policy, the Philippines is wide open to foreign companies, especially the extractive business of mining. The regime of ...
... of Export Development Canada’s (EDC) services. The crown corporation has provided tens of billions of dollars — $28 billion in 2014 alone — in financing and insurance to the extractive sector, including ...
... 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 ...
Guatemala Network Solidarity
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In a series of tweets, in Spanish, The Extractive Industries Observatory (El Observatorio de Industrias Extractivas – OIE) has introduced a thread about the Cerro ...
... regulations were now in place to boost environmental safeguards.
But Greenpeace country director Lea Guerrero said the lifting of the moratorium was "outrageous".
"Mining and extractive activities in ...
... groups say.
Signed April 14 and made public April 15, Executive Order 130 highlights the contribution of the extractives sector in reviving the country’s economy amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
The sector ...
... their counterparts in Guatemala, Peru, and the Philippines, where mining projects created webs of local corporate leaders who were intertwined with and enriched by the extractive industry. But after the ...
... being in extractive and financial industries. In 2018, there was $56.6 billion in Canadian mining assets across South America. Almost half of the world’s public mining corporations are traded through the ...
... The money that was going to be earned (…) through the employment of the locals, would be nothing compared to the illnesses that the extractive projects would have brought”.
Interview with Carmelo Torres, ...
... the implementation of extractive industry projects that are causing widespread violence.
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... access to food and livelihood became everyday challenges. And while the mobility of indigenous villages are limited, there are no breaks for extractives, logging, government and private projects, and militarization in ...
... (FTAA) of the mining company expired in June 2019.
“We demand for an immediate watershed audit that will investigate and penalize these extractive and destructive projects that worsened the massive floods ...
... declared Edy Tábora, a lawyer on the legal defence team.
“This case is not only about Guapinol. The case is emblematic of all of those that fight for their rights against extractive projects in their ...
... leniency of the Guatemalan state toward extractive industries. This, coupled with rampant government corruption and privileged connections allowed KCA to meet its objectives: consolidate the mining project ...
... extractive companies; that, together with local capitals, operate within regulatory frameworks favorable to their interests to the detriment of the common good, to the detriment of the sustainable development ...
... case is emblematic for all those who are fighting to guarantee their rights against extractive projects in their territories". For the eight defenders already in pretrial detention, Magistrates María Luisa ...