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1. Background and reports: (Category); Created on 09 July 2013
2. REPORT: Voices from the Ground: (General mining reports ); How the Global Mining Industry is Profiting from the COVID-19 Pandemic This report provides in-depth cases to exemplify the four trends highlighted in the international open letter “Global Solidarity ...; Created on 19 July 2020
3. BACKGROUND MINING IN EL SALVADOR: (Background and reports ); The tiny country of El Salvador is caught up in a David vs. Goliath battle as it struggles to defend the human right to water and the public health of its citizens. Metallic mining projects would pose ...; Created on 23 February 2013
4. Public Citizen Commerce Group Backgrounder: (Background and reports ); Backgrounder CAFTA Investor Rights Undermining Democracy and the Environment: Commerce Group Case The Commerce Group Corporation, a mining firm registered and based in Wisconsin, is the second multinational ...; Created on 28 February 2012
5. Background on Mining: (Background and reports ); A Brief History of Mining in El Salvador I. Precedents. The Mining Legacy Metallic mining was carried out in the northeastern part of El Salvador for almost 100 years (1880-1970) and ...; Created on 08 February 2012
6. Public statement of the Local Governments of Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador, members of the Lempa River Trinational Border Association, regarding the “Cerro Blanco” mining project, developed by the ...: (Cerro Blanco); ... the tri national basin of the Lempa River is a resource shared as a unitary set of superficial and underground water bodies that flow to a common river mouth, as such it is an important resource that guarantees ...; Created on 12 June 2022
7. PRESS RELESE: Environmental Organizations Dennounce Privatization of Water in El Salvador: (Media Releases); ... (headed by the Regalado and Wright Families) who freely use all the surface and groundwater of the coastal territories, often times without permits and paying a pittance for its use. This Law, however, ...; Created on 23 December 2021
8. La Mesa releases a memoir of their collective struggle to ban mining in El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... starts with a historical background of mining companies in El Salvador, the resistance against a series of mining projects that began operating unannounced in communities in the early 2000s, the resistance ...; Created on 29 June 2021
9. In Guatemala, Harris Should Address U.S. Policies That Put Corporations Over People: (Mining and Human Rights); ... against, even though two other mines were suspended on similar grounds. The reality is that local communities are the ones whose rights have been trampled. KCA did not fulfil environmental regulations ...; Created on 07 June 2021
10. Why Canada is at the centre of global mining atrocities: (Mining and Human Rights); ... has listing and disclosure requirements that are pretty lax.” Canada is a playground of deregulation for mining companies headquartered here. As both Lang and Asuncion asserted, corporate social responsibility ...; Created on 12 May 2021
11. Imai v. Canada: Access-to-information lawsuit concerning Canada’s intervention in human rights case against Goldcorp in Guatemala: (Mining and Human Rights); ... to protect the rights of Indigenous communities, and the commission retracted it in 2011. https://cnca-rcrce.ca/site/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/JR-Backgrounder-ENGLISH.pdf?fbclid=IwAR1yK83wtnIk25AaXha29gP00DC0voO93Gaq5l462xei8QjI_fOpvgmZKv4 ...; Created on 11 May 2021
12. Reactivation of Cerro Blanco Mining Project: (Mining and Human Rights); ... company that owns the mine, scheduled a meeting with Cerro Blanco residents on May 1 to announce not only its reactivation, but also a change of plans: the project will change from an underground mine ...; Created on 06 May 2021
13. A New Environmentalist Playbook An improbable victory in El Salvador offers lessons for grassroots activists worldwide: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... resources and leave others in the ground. Due to climate science if not solidarity, the prospects of local communities and activists for notching environmental wins against wealthy and well-connected companies ...; Created on 23 April 2021
14. Swiss mining transnational Glencore in the Andes: (General mining reports ); ... (e.g. for renewables infrastructure) – although without changing its damaging practices on the ground. While extensive documentation exists, along with complaints in national courts and international ...; Created on 22 April 2021
15. ‘Complete turnaround’: Philippines’ Duterte lifts ban on new mining permits: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... Hours after he lifted the mining moratorium, the mining and oil index rose 5.38% by the close of trade on April 15. Risk to environment, defenders On the ground, various groups have warned that the executive ...; Created on 15 April 2021
16. El Salvador’s Water Defenders and the Fight Against Toxic Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... Salvador. The authors describe Pac Rim “as one entity operating in its Canadian headquarters, as a Cayman Island shell company, and on the ground in El Salvador.” At that time, there were no mines active ...; Created on 11 April 2021
17. Families complain about big SC gold mine, citing danger and community disruption: (OceanaGold); ... While mining pits would be enlarged, the company also plans to dig an underground mine, a new feature. That would be up to 1,314 feet below the surface. The company’s mill operations also would become ...; Created on 02 April 2021
18. Gold mine expansion could produce $2.5 billion. But environmental problems linger: (OceanaGold); ... people, and they want to help this community as much as they can,’’ Dorman said, noting that the mine has funded community projects, such as a playground at a park. Restaurants are busier and once-vacant ...; Created on 30 March 2021
19. An unlikely eco-alliance in postwar El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... El Salvador's conservative ARENA [National Republican Alliance] party found common ground with former rebel leaders and Catholic Church officials to ban mining? Luis Parada Basically, they, like all the ...; Created on 22 March 2021
20. Ottawa must disclose how it aided Goldcorp in human rights dispute, Federal Court will hear: (Mining and Human Rights); ... 250.572. 2625, ckamphuis@tru.ca Civil society: Catherine Coumans, MiningWatch Canada, 613.256.8331, catherine@miningwatch.ca Karyn Keenan, Above Ground, 613.791.7532, kkeenan@aboveground.ngo Contact ...; Created on 02 March 2021

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