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On Wednesday, July 1st, the National Alliance against the Privatization of Water of El Salvador urged the local Parliament to resume discussion of the Water Law. The organizations that make ...
... violently evicted the Peaceful Resistance La Puya, clearing the way for the company to begin operations. Unwilling to give up, the resistance camp resumed outside the mine gates shortly after, but the ...
... Kaliwa Dam resume operations despite the lockdown.
Mining in ancestral lands is now the key economic driver in Amazonian countries as the price of gold rises in time of the pandemic. An estimate of 1.5 ...
... and without public announcement, the largest steel producer in the United States, the Nucor Corporation, spent at least four years associated with an iron mine in Honduras under fire for its presumed persecution ...
... we see with concern that in the more than 100 days since the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis, the Legislative Commission for the Environment and Climate Change has not met in order to resume the discussion ...
... dialogue with the company to resolve its concerns, stating that he hoped the mine would soon resume operations. Meanwhile, affected communities remain on high alert to defend their territory from mining ...
... Palace to resume the debate on the preliminary draft.
The Commission has now started the discussion of the new bill and to date, seven articles have already been approved. The commission’s president, ...
... Along with a group of environmental organizations, Calles demanded the government of President Nayib Bukele, to resume actions in this matter and give protection to the population affected by the metal ...
... and it failed to do so. As such, the Roundtable against Metal Mining has asked the new government of Nayib Bukele to resume the actions still pending from the approval of the Metallic Mining Ban.
According ...
... operations may resume regardless of the outcome of the consultation process.
“Consultation should be seen as an intercultural dialogue in good faith, in which consensus and the reciprocal accommodation ...
... authors presumed to be people related to extractive companies.
El Salvador created history on March 29, 2017, becoming the first country in the world to ban surface and underground metals mining, a long ...
... the Salvadoran government. OceanaGold resumed the claim, but the company lost the case in October 2016.
According to the members of CRIPDES, the "El Dorado" foundation has changed its statutes. Currently, ...
... and the government on the regulation of water be resumed.
The two bills were discussed during previous legislatures with more than 60% of the proposed articles discussed and approved, but both proposals ...
... Asks members of the Legislative Assembly to resume the approval process for the Prohibition of Metal Mining.
XIV.- Salutes and calls on the Bishop's Conference of the Catholic Church, the Archbishop of ...
... demand that local governments create laws prohibiting mining projects. They also want the new municipal laws to be taken into account in the national Congress and that the discussion resume on the reforms ...
... our territory and that the government ensures a long term water supply by prohibiting mining, so we can all resume our normal life” he says.
IN MEMORIAM
Marcelo Rivera – murdered in June 2009. ...
... National Roundtable against Mining (MNFM) reiterated the call for the Commission on Environment and Climate Change in the Legislative Assembly to resume discussion on approving a Law on the Prohibition ...
... $100m from the government in compensation for lost potential earnings after the government cited environmental grounds in denying them a permit to resume operations. Its case has recently been discontinued by ...
... Assembly resume discussions on a General Water Law for El Salvador.
The march is the culmination a series of direct actions that environmental organizations and communities affected by water scarcity ...