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1. Getting the shaft on mining abuses
(Background and reports )
Sakura Saunders : Now Magazine After more than a decade of campaigning for oversight of Canadian mining corporations abroad, the feds appear to be backpedaling on gains won by human rights advocates ...
Created on 05 May 2019
2. El Salvador’s Historic Metal Mining Ban Is in Danger
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... of fresh water due to its release of acid mine drainage.” Organized around the slogan “Water is more important than gold,” activists succeeded in getting the mining ban passed and thereby ensured the ecological ...
Created on 06 April 2023
3. Mining is not ‘recovery’
(OceanaGold Philippines)
... see now are rocks and an open-pit mine that’s getting deeper and deeper.” Meanwhile, should Sagittarius (SMI) be allowed to push through with the Tampakan Copper and Gold Mining Project’s, the same fate ...
Created on 02 June 2021
4. An unlikely eco-alliance in postwar El Salvador
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... for environmental activists in El Salvador. One was getting the national legislature to pass that mining ban. The other was the lawsuit the mining company, Pacific Rim, launched against El Salvador's government, ...
Created on 22 March 2021
5. Disputes against governments under investment treaties: a growing trend in the mining industry in 2020
(ISDS)
... the availability and use of investor-state arbitration can be an effective means of getting a government to the table for meaningful negotiations and eventual settlement. Investor-state arbitration in ...
Created on 06 January 2021
6. Defending Land and Water from Mining Profiteers in the Time of Covid-19
(Regional News)
...  Mining-affected people are up against multiple pandemics — health, economic, violence, militarization, and corporate capture. These are all getting worse as the Covid-19 pandemic intersects with the ...
Created on 23 July 2020
7. Land Defenders Are Killed in the Philippines for Protesting Canadian Mining
(OceanaGold Philippines)
... interactions with a toxic environment for the health problems, VERA Files reported, and a health emergency was declared in the region in 2016. Things are getting worse At least 157 land defenders had ...
Created on 04 October 2019
8. How Local, Grassroots Organizing Drove El Salvador’s Mining Ban
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... to talk to us, but very quickly, because her little daughter was getting restless, incessantly pulling at her skirt and asking to go home. Parents with kids are a common sight in Cinquera, where mothers ...
Created on 26 June 2017
9. El Salvador – When The Seeds Of Resistance Bloom
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... Times, the Washington Post, CBC, Reuters, the New York Times, the BBC, the London Review of Books, CounterPunch and Upside Down World – not forgetting Xinhuanet in China and Kalikasan in the Philippines, Le ...
Created on 23 June 2017
10. El Salvador Lessons for the TPP Fight
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... of 40% of El Salvador’s health budget. -------------------------------------- After seven years of legal blackmail aimed at getting the Salvadoran government to back down and allow the mining to go ahead, ...
Created on 10 November 2016
11. NEW BOOK: Rethinking Bilateral Trade Agreements
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... BITs has gained momentum and the call to roll back the BIT regime and protect national sovereignty is getting stronger. Several developing countries have already terminated their BITs or are in the process ...
Created on 11 May 2016
12. In the Keystone Suit, It’s Big Oil vs. Democracy
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... part to protect the public from the narrow interests of giant corporations. One important step is to stop the TPP from getting congressional approval. Hopefully the TransCanada lawsuit, by making clear ...
Created on 02 February 2016
13. El Salvador presents new motion prior to the relasing of the verdict on the Pacific Rim case.
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... by the Australian transnational company Oceana Gold. Now this company is leading the case against the country before the ICSID, and is also working on getting mining supporters in the central region of ...
Created on 26 October 2015
14. Save Our Water, End Investor Rights
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... bilateral investment treaties. Getting rid of ISDS in itself won't solve the environmental crisis. But it would give communities like those in El Salvador the ability to develop their own environmental ...
Created on 18 May 2015
15. MUA joins fresh OceanaGold protests
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... to nationalise mining,” MUA Sydney branch secretary Paul McAleer said.“Surely, we as a nation should have the ability to make that choice. But then we risk getting sued into bankruptcy by some multi-billion ...
Created on 11 September 2014
16. Preliminary program
(2014 International Delegation)
Please note this is a preliminary program and it will change as we arrange locations organize with others.  Day one  Getting to know each other and orientation Day two Morning:  Travel ...
Created on 07 August 2014
17. Cadboro United Church
(March 2013 North American Tour)
Photo Story by Grace Draper           Getting ready for our event- lots of tabling, coffee-drinking, and of course, conversation  At 7pm, Ross White from Cadboro Bay United Church welcomes ...
Created on 17 March 2013
18. Today’s Trivia Quiz: How Global Mining Corporations Are Able to Undermine Democracy
(FTAs & ISDS)
... at getting that “exploitation license” is to: (a)  Just redo the environmental impact statement. (b)  Just do the feasibility assessment. (c)  Carefully follow the country’s written requirements and ...
Created on 05 July 2012
19. Al Gedicks and Eric Hansen: Mine law needs public process, not ‘consensus’
(2013 North America Tour)
... “agree on 90 percent” of the issues. Something is wrong with Meyer, Sullivan and other interested parties getting together to work out “consensus” legislation that would allow GTac and other proposed ...
Created on 18 May 2012

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