... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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. ...
... 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 ...
... 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, ...