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1. “Latin American Countries exposed to law suits from transnational comporations: Manuel Pérez Rocha
(Regional News)
Gloria Silvia Orellana - Diario CoLatino Manuel Pérez Rocha, fellow from the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), participated in the Regional Meeting of the Central American Alliance Against Mining. ...
Created on 10 May 2018
2. Gold mine expansion could produce $2.5 billion. But environmental problems linger
(OceanaGold)
... failure, loss of consciousness and death if people are exposed to high amounts, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. OceanaGold said the December cyanide violation resulted ...
Created on 30 March 2021
3. WATER IS LIFE. CAN WE PROTECT IT?
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... to ban all metals mining to save their rivers. Today the United States faces a similar reckoning as El Salvador. The Texas freeze that left millions without water exposed the desperate need to rein ...
Created on 28 March 2021
4. Mine reappears on list of suspects: Lead source inquiry welcomed
(OceanaGold)
... operation had recorded nothing close to the current New Zealand drinking water standard breached in the council water supply, the spokeswoman said. Additionally, employees who could be exposed to any ...
Created on 13 March 2021
5. From dreams of gold to organic agriculture
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... there is no difficulty for the mother, father and older children to work and they have no risk that they can be contaminated by the products they are using or be exposed to toxins found in farms. We eliminate ...
Created on 05 January 2021
6. Anti-mining community, Gina Lopez awarded as heroes for the environment
(OceanaGold Philippines)
... the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant and exposed its technical deficiencies when he was part of the Citizens’ Review Panel. In 2015, he founded the Center for Renewable Energy Systems and Sustainable Technology ...
Created on 07 October 2020
7. Canadian mining companies are behaving badly in the Global South—and Wall Street is profiting from it
(FTAs & ISDS)
... essential that this shadowy financial market is exposed to the light of day. Otherwise, affected communities will remain blind to the powerful figures that have profited at their expense. Among other ...
Created on 05 May 2019
8. Uncertainty in communities of Asuncion Mita due to the imminent reopening of the Cerro Blanco mine in Guatemala
(Cerro Blanco)
* Edgardo Ayala - Contrapunto Despite of a two year mining prohibition, the ghost of mining does not fade away for communities in El Salvador that are exposed to crossborder contamination that may cause ...
Created on 03 May 2019
9. REPORT: Golden opportunities for profits, corporate plunder for OceanaGold Corporation
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... effects of corporate mining activities. Various solidarity and investigative missions have also been held in Didipio in the Philippines, for instance in 2011, 2014 and 2015. These have exposed the implications ...
Created on 24 August 2018
10. The dilemma of artisanal miners after the mining prohibition in El Salvador
(Commerce Group)
... by a permanent acid drainage leak, hundreds of tons of exposed rock debris mixed with cyanide and other highly toxic chemicals used in the process of lixiviation and two large metal containers filled more ...
Created on 07 May 2018
11. Latin American Women Weaving Territories
(Media Releases)
... and the triumph of individualism over the common interest, threaten as never before the sustainability of the life of the world population. In our case, as peasant and indigenous women, we are exposed ...
Created on 01 February 2018
12. The negative legacy of mining in El Salvador continues after 100 years
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... has contaminated their main source of water, the San Sebastian River, and at least 300 people who currently work in artisanal mining are exposed daily to heavy metals, and substances like mercury and methane, ...
Created on 11 November 2015
13. El Salvador presents new motion prior to the relasing of the verdict on the Pacific Rim case.
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... has revealed the actions of the mining company violate the arbitration proceedings of the financial body that settles such disputes. Other data exposed by the then Ambassador Glazer in the diplomatic ...
Created on 26 October 2015
14. Urgent! Strengthening a powerful global voice in defence of life
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... was on the other side of the mine. There are people from the communities working in the mine, but they are the ones who get paid less, they take more risks and are exposed to  accidents. The women who ...
Created on 29 September 2015
15. El Salvador faces mining company
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... this territory violated human rights, and its inhabitants were exposed to contracting diseases from water contaminated with chemicals used in the extraction process, which seep into the ground aided by ...
Created on 21 July 2014
16. El Salvador suffers Australia's maleficent miner
(Water no Gold)
... will take much of the water from the aquifers and streams on which the local population depends. They will also be affected by the dust from mines. The soil is rich in sulphur, so that when exposed to ...
Created on 03 December 2013
17. The Rights Clash
(Commerce Group)
... Sebastian mine. In 1977, a Milwaukee, Wisconsin-based mining company called Commerce Group closed its operations there. In the years since, bedrock exposed during mining caused acid drainage, which has ...
Created on 15 July 2013
18. New acts of violence and intimidation against members of the National Roundtable Against Metallic Mining
(Mining and Human Rights)
... that the Attorney General's Office and the National Police open an investigation to identify the intellectual authors the crimes recently exposed, as well as the origin and motivation for these attacks. ...
Created on 09 July 2013
19. Our Objectives
(2013 Fact Finding Mission)
... international activists who will be exposed first hand to the impacts of mining and the different actors who are opposing mining in El Salvador. To create direct ties between international participants ...
Created on 13 March 2013
20. Al Gedicks and Eric Hansen: Mine law needs public process, not ‘consensus’
(2013 North America Tour)
... or the rock surrounding the ore body. Sulfides exposed to air and water create acid mine drainage. Exxon could not meet the requirements of the law and withdrew from the controversial Crandon mine project, ...
Created on 18 May 2012
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