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1. New Report: Mining Injustice Through International Arbitration: Countering Kappes, Cassiday & Associates’ Claims over a Gold-mining Project in Guatemala
(Regional News)
... Claims over a Gold-mining Project in Guatemala, examines Kappes, Cassiday & Associates (KCA) attempt to strong-arm the Guatemalan government through international arbitration into green-lighting the unwanted ...
Created on 24 August 2020
2. A New Environmentalist Playbook An improbable victory in El Salvador offers lessons for grassroots activists worldwide
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... the authors write, Canadian gold-mining company Pacific Rim and its allies deployed sleazy tactics to overwhelm opposition and win a license to mine. Astroturf protesters were paid to pose as members of ...
Created on 23 April 2021
3. Gold mine expansion could produce $2.5 billion. But environmental problems linger
(OceanaGold)
... in cash, instead of $5 million as initially proposed by the state. The Sierra Club’s action followed a series by The State on the environmental impacts of gold-mining in Montana and South Carolina. Chris ...
Created on 30 March 2021
4. Mine reappears on list of suspects: Lead source inquiry welcomed
(OceanaGold)
... the company’s gold-mining activities. The company used an accredited independent laboratory to test all water in and around the operation for multiple trace elements, including lead, monthly, and the ...
Created on 13 March 2021
5. Mining Injustice Through International Arbitration
(ISDS)
... Investor State Dispute Settlement system (ISDS). The report findings demonstrate that: Instead of respecting legitimate community opposition to its gold-mining project, KCA increased its efforts ...
Created on 21 October 2020
6. EL SALVADOR’S WIN AGAINST THE US MINING COMPANY PACIFIC RIM: A VERY NUANCED VICTORY
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... company Pacific Rim Cayman (now part of the Australian-Canadian company Oceana Gold) regarding a dispute over the granting of a mining licence for the El Dorado mine, a gold-mining project in Cabañas, ...
Created on 28 December 2016
7. Statement in support of El Salvador from Amianan Salakniban in the Philippines (2)
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... 2012, the government of El Salvador is in a long-running $301 million dollar dispute with OceanaGold for refusing to grant a gold-mining permit in their country. The Central American country stand by their ...
Created on 28 October 2015
8. Amid TPP Fight, El Salvador Mining Case Shows Danger of Corporate Tribunals
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... of El Salvador to pay $301 million to a Canadian-Australian gold-mining firm. OceanaGold, which purchased the Vancouver-based Pacific Rim Mining in 2013, is suing El Salvador—the most water-stressed ...
Created on 18 May 2015
9. El Salvador’s struggle against corporate impunity
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... Rim, a gold-mining corporation, is demanding $301 million from El Salvador in the International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), a secretive World Bank tribunal in Washington D.C. ...
Created on 20 October 2014
10. Media coverage of the International Month of Action
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... between an international mining company and the government of El Salvador. An Australian mining company, OceanaGold, is suing the Salvadoran government for refusing to grant it a gold-mining permit that ...
Created on 29 September 2014
11. News Summary international campaign against OceanaGold
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... rallied Monday outside the World Bank in the District, where a tribunal is discussing the case of a foreign company that seeks to extract gold from the impoverished Central American country. http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/protesters-in-dc-ask-for-halt-to-gold-mining-in-el-salvador-say-it-will-endanger-ecology/2014/09/15/dfb9a682-3cf7-11e4-b0ea-8141703bbf6f_story.html ...
Created on 25 September 2014
12. World Bank Tribunal Weighs Final Arguments in El Salvador Mining Dispute
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... the government of El Salvador. An Australian mining company, OceanaGold, is suing the Salvadoran government for refusing to grant it a gold-mining permit that has been pending for much of the past decade. ...
Created on 17 September 2014
13. World Bank Tribunal Weighs Final Arguments in El Salvador Mining Dispute
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... the government of El Salvador. An Australian mining company, OceanaGold, is suing the Salvadoran government for refusing to grant it a gold-mining permit that has been pending for much of the past decade. ...
Created on 17 September 2014
14. Meet the Company Suing El Salvador for the Right to Poison Its Water
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... company operate because it wants to protect its main source of water. The case pits El Salvador’s government against a Canadian gold-mining company that recently became part of a larger Australian-based ...
Created on 04 September 2014
15. A corporate warning to El Salvador: Give up your gold or pay $315 million
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
As Salvadorans debate a mining ban due to pollution concerns, a large mining company has filed suit against the government. by Jamie Stark* First published in: http://www.globalpost.com/dispatches/globalpost-blogs/rights/el-salvador-gold-mining-lawsuit   ...
Created on 06 August 2014
16. The Real Cost of Gold in the Philippines
(2013 North America Tour)
...  "To you readers, and especially those who think of gold as something of value, we invite you into the room. Some of you have followed us in our journeys to gold-mining country in El Salvador where OceanaGold ...
Created on 22 September 2013
17. Buzzwords:Responsible Mining
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... to ask: "responsible mining" for whom and by whom?  The first sentence of the website of a gold-mining firm that is suing the El Salvador government over a mining license that the government denied might ...
Created on 22 September 2013
18. PRELIMINARY REPORT “Gold Mining and the Defense of Water in El Salvador”
(Background and reports )
... of local organizations challenged myths that Pacific Rim has perpetuated in order to promote its gold-mining project to the Salvadoran public. Whereas Pacific Rim has claimed that its project would bring ...
Created on 24 May 2013
19. Central American community groups work together on mining issues
(March 2013 North American Tour)
... may give Canadian capital an advantage ahead of investors from Taiwan, China, Britain and Italy. There are 70 gold-mining concessions, and four projects underway. The best-known mine in Honduras, the ...
Created on 18 March 2013
20. Today’s Trivia Quiz: How Global Mining Corporations Are Able to Undermine Democracy
(FTAs & ISDS)
... assessment and a feasibility assessment among other things. To make this easier, let’s use the hypothetical case of a gold-mining company that is seeking to mine in another country. Are you set? Ok, ...
Created on 05 July 2012

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