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1. Mining company continues lobbying efforts to repeal Anti-Mining Law
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... Law against Metallic Mining that was approved last March.  “Our main goal is to continue lobbying governmental institutions and in the Legislative Assembly. We have to avoid the possible repeal of the ...
Created on 14 November 2017
2. El Salvador’s Historic Metal Mining Ban Is in Danger
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... Pedro Antonio Rivas Laínez, Antonio Pacheco, and Saúl Agustín Rivas Ortega. These figures, who all played a role in lobbying for the 2017 mining ban, are accused of “illicit associations” and committing ...
Created on 06 April 2023
3. Why Canada is at the centre of global mining atrocities
(Mining and Human Rights)
... rights abuses and environmental devastation. But they are up against a very powerful lobbying group and a government with very little will to transform the industry. In 2010, a private members bill was ...
Created on 12 May 2021
4. Swiss mining transnational Glencore in the Andes
(General mining reports )
... over their human rights violations.” Morgantini points out that the Campaign’s task this year is to continue working on the content and lobbying battle to secure more allied countries in the UN. “We ...
Created on 22 April 2021
5. Ottawa must disclose how it aided Goldcorp in human rights dispute, Federal Court will hear
(Mining and Human Rights)
... Goldcorp’s behalf, lobbying decision-makers in Guatemala and at the IACHR for months following the commission’s request. In 2011 Guatemala announced it would not suspend the mine’s operations, and the ...
Created on 02 March 2021
6. Canadian Mining Companies Are Devastating The Global South
(Mining and Human Rights)
... by the Mining Association of Canada, a lobbying group which from 2013 to 2018 had more contact with Canadian government officials than any other single organization according to a 2019 report from the ...
Created on 21 January 2021
7. El Salvador: first anniversary of the mining ban A cause for celebration, but the new law faces dangers
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
Andrés McKinley - UK LAB On March 29th, 2017, the small country of El Salvador became the first nation in the world to exercise its sovereign right to say “no” to metallic mining after carefully analyzing ...
Created on 22 June 2018
8. Looming threats to the mining prohibition in El Salvador
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... of Investment Disputes (ICSID). Both cases were defeated by the Government´s legal team with support from allies in the international community.   Pacific Rim also engaged in high level lobbying of national ...
Created on 08 February 2018
9. El Salvador Passes Historic Law To Ban Metal Mining
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... to extraction to processing. Despite last minute lobbying by one of the country’s largest mining interests, all 70 present members of the assembly voted in favor of the ban. It now heads to President ...
Created on 16 April 2017
10. In El Salvador, OceanaGold Must ‘Pay Up and Pack Up’
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... to public demands for a prohibition on all metal mining. Nonetheless, once it became clear that its lobbying strategy was a complete failure, the company announced the suit, brazenly claiming that the ...
Created on 03 March 2017
11. A wake-up call for Trump's trade agend
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... bias continues. Now, four months later, OceanaGold still hasn't paid a cent, and it is still lobbying the Salvadoran government to allow it to mine while offering "fake news" about its ability to mine without ...
Created on 03 March 2017
12. Transnational mining company loses the battle, but the war continues.
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... in Cabañas, through its El Dorado Foundation. They are lobbying government officials, mayors and other authorities, said the academic during his dialogue with IPS. "OceanaGold does not leave because it ...
Created on 05 January 2017
13. PRESS RELEASE: Not to the blackmail of Pacific Rim Mining/Oceana Gold
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... at the ICSID; and to allow the exploitation of gold and silver in San Isidro, Cabañas. It is also known that the company has sought the approval of metal mining in the country by lobbying senior state ...
Created on 26 September 2016
14. Across the Pacific: building a global struggle against the free-trade agenda of OceanaGold
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... brainstorming by discussing their ‘Canada is Open for Justice’ campaign, an initiative together with their fellow members of the Canadian Network on Corporate Accountability lobbying the Canadian government ...
Created on 26 September 2016
15. The obscure legal system that lets corporations sue countries
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... say it has got dangerously out of control Luis Parada’s office is just four blocks from the White House, in the heart of K Street, Washington’s lobbying row – a stretch of steel and glass buildings once ...
Created on 11 July 2015
16. Murdered environmental activists remembered
(Mining and Human Rights)
... against the government of El Salvador for $77 million dollars.  Around the same time, Pacific Rim was involved in a public relations strategy which included lobbying Salvadoran and US politicians to ...
Created on 30 December 2014
17. Media coverage of the International Month of Action
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... with the requirements for a mining permit in the first place, preferring to rely on lobbying of government ministers.  Counterpunch:Clean Water as An Impediment to Corporate Profits An Australian mining ...
Created on 29 September 2014
18. CALL FOR SUPPORT: International month of action against Canadian/Australian miner OceanaGold
(International Month of Action)
... housed tribunal, the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID). Meanwhile, the company engaged in high level lobbying of national authorities to try to have its license approved. ...
Created on 04 September 2014
19. Social movements celebrate historic vote at the United Nations Human Rights Council
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... representing a population of 3.8 billion people, vote in favour of a historic resolution to build a binding treaty  June 26th, 2014, Geneva – After weeks of negotiation and furious lobbying from Northern ...
Created on 26 June 2014
20. New Study Shows Dangers of Trade Agreements that Help Corporations Sue Govenments
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... land over the proposed mine. Rather, Pacific Rim relied on lobbying government officials to try to get the permit. The study’s authors contend that for those concerned with democracy and basic rights, ...
Created on 25 March 2014
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