... unfavorable conditions for metal mining, Pacific Rim/OceanaGold has intensified its actions to blackmail the government of President Salvador Sanchez Ceren to cede to negotiations in the case arbitrated ...
... technical capacity to regulate transnational companies; or finally because transnationals can easily escape the jurisdiction of the States or incur commercial blackmail, etc. “Due to all this we have to ...
... of blackmail to try to undermine Court decisions, as well as the peaceful resistance and rights of local communities, should not be allowed. Unfortunately, we have already seen such arbitration used for ...
... State the payment of 250 million on the basis of potential profits lost due to not having received the government permits to carry out the El Dorado gold mining project, constituted an act of blackmailing ...
... the ones being sued…but no, the perpetrator sued the victim…in an upside down world.”
The Roundtable also described the ISDS system as “a form of blackmail” – a legal mechanism used to pressure governments ...
... of 40% of El Salvador’s health budget.
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After seven years of legal blackmail aimed at getting the Salvadoran government to back down and allow the mining to go ahead, ...
... that we have constantly pointed out during these 7 years: that the arbitration was an attempt of a transnational mining company to blackmail the State and to abuse the process, in order to get a mining ...
... for the government to enact a prohibition on any metal mining."
“By allowing transnational companies to blackmail governments to try to force them to adopt policies that favor corporations, investor-state ...
... disaster, Commerce Group has continued attempting to blackmail the Salvadoran state, making use of international corporate tribunals while not responding to the proven pollution impacts and without respecting ...