... Police in order to force fuel tankers in the mining site; a local leader was arrested but also bailed out the following day.
Gina Lopez’s ‘maverick leadership” remembered
A posthumous award was also ...
... for the nearby town of El Estor daily. According to the residents of Valle de Syria in Honduras, the San Martín mine, in nine years of operations, dried up 19 of the 23 original rivers in the area. And ...
... the country have led to the marginalization and oppression of communities and indigenous peoples, as well as pollution and the destruction of the environment," Guerrero said in a statement.
Kalikasan ...
... cooperatives.
To exemplify the problems that arise around this way of working, we have to travel in our imaginations to the Porco mine in Potosí, an operation under Illapa’s control. In November 2020 ...
... Gina Lopez, a staunch anti-mining advocate, as secretary of the DENR. In her one year in office, Lopez oversaw the closure and/or suspension of permits for 26 mining operations found in violation of environmental ...
... led to the finding the people who actually killed them. But, didn't go beyond to find who may be behind the murders.
Marco Werman: And Marcelo Rivera, how did his story capture the imagination of Salvadorans ...
... you envision who truly has power if we unleash our imaginations and act together.”
—Ai-jen Poo, executive director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, author of The Age of Dignity, and MacArthur ...
... it brazenly violates the ancestral domain rights of our aboriginal constituents who are the Bugkalots-llongots but also on account of OceanaGold’s adamant refusal to settle its local business taxes due ...
... there have also been outcries from communities against possible attempts to take over some of the wells originally built to supply areas ANDA was failing to service that are managed by community water ...
... and peaceful assembly.”
In addition to the eight men detained in 2019, a judge will soon decide whether five others, whose cases were originally dismissed, must also await trial in prison or at home. ...
... men in jail, along with the other five who originally had their case dismissed, now face detention and arson charges. Under Honduran law, these charges do not require the detention of the accused, but ...
... greenwashing.
The historic closure of big mines under the late former environment secretary Gina Lopez has been recently announced by current environment secretary and ex-general Roy Cimatu himself as ...
... aspects of the original NAFTA was that it allowed private corporations to sue governments in international tribunals, demanding compensation for alleged violations of a wide range of investor “rights.” ...
... these people have been marginalized in health care services, or when asking for agricultural packages from state institutions. When representatives of these institutions see that people from Santa Rosa, ...
... against environmental defenders who opposed the mine resulted in the indictment of 32 members of the Committee for the Defense of the Commons and Natural Resources of Tocoa.
Originally, the Honduran judicial ...
... in 2016 ordered by former DENR Sec. Gina Lopez. A new hydrology impact study should have also been submitted by OGPI to dispel the claims of the LGU that te water supply has been severely reduced due ...
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Foto: Celia Guerrero /Archivo Pie de PaginaThis is not fiction: an American company dedicated to finding treasures at the bottom of the sea has partnered with Altos ...
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Members of the National Roundtable against Metal Mining requested the President of the Republic, Nayib Bukele, to implement the Ban of Metal Mining, to address problems faced by mining affected ...
... February 14, 2017 by then-Philippine Secretary of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), Gina Lopez. The agreement that allowed OceanaGold to start mining is a 25-year Financial and Technical Assistance ...
... have to present a new EIA, as the one originally presented by Entre Mares/Goldcorp suffered from many technical deficiencies and was approved "in an illegal manner, because it was first rejected twice by ...