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1. National Roundtable Against Metallic Mining on the temporary suspension the Cerro Blanco mining project
(Media Releases)
... the temporary suspension announced by the company is not enough, we must move towards the total closure of the mining project and avoid a political and environmental conflict between the two Central American ...
Created on 04 August 2013
2. Reactivation of Cerro Blanco Mining Project
(Mining and Human Rights)
... Energy and Mines (MEM) a “2-year temporary closure due to technical failures and flooding”, since when no mining activities have been carried out. Yesterday (4th May) Bluestone Resources Inc. issued ...
Created on 06 May 2021
3. The Status of Investor-State Arbitration in Latin America in 2021
(ISDS)
... a temporary banking crisis, an electricity-distribution agreement and telecommunications infrastructure. In addition, Colombia is facing potential arbitrations in relation to the suspension of operations ...
Created on 21 January 2021
4. Vizcaya gov still opposes Didipio
(OceanaGold Philippines)
... expired FTAA by President Duterte. On June 10, 2019, the FTAA of OGPI), a subsidiary of Melbourne-based OceanaGold Corporation, has expired resulting in temporary suspension of OGPI’s operations pending ...
Created on 08 January 2021
5. Land Defenders Are Killed in the Philippines for Protesting Canadian Mining
(OceanaGold Philippines)
... who end up in Canada have to spend huge amounts of money working with a recruiter to get placement as labourers through temporary foreign worker programs, which are also exploitative. “I declared myself ...
Created on 04 October 2019
6. Uncertainty in communities of Asuncion Mita due to the imminent reopening of the Cerro Blanco mine in Guatemala
(Cerro Blanco)
... the company (Goldcorp) announced a "temporary suspension" in 2013 due to thermal waters that caused flooding in the tunnels. A residente from Asuncion Mita looks at the Ostua River, where thermal waters ...
Created on 03 May 2019
7. Looming threats to the mining prohibition in El Salvador
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
P. Cabezas In March 2017, El Salvador became the first country in the world to ban metallic mining. But the huge victory of the antimining movement and the international recognition it has garnered may ...
Created on 08 February 2018
8. How Local, Grassroots Organizing Drove El Salvador’s Mining Ban
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... imposed a temporary nationwide mining ban in 2008. The move scuttled the ambitions of the Canadian firm Pacific Rim, which had hoped to mine gold in the watershed of the Lempa River, El Salvador’s main ...
Created on 26 June 2017
9. Western University Professor Brings El Salvador Anti-Mining Struggle to Canadian Audience
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... $301M lawsuit against the country of El Salvador, which the company lost in October after a seven-year battle. With this context,  she provided the audience with a better understanding of the complex contemporary ...
Created on 08 March 2017
10. ICSID decision buoys El Salvador in mining dispute
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... that it be granted US$314 million in compensation after being denied a permit to drill for gold. But anti-mining activists, arguing that the Oct. 14 decision offers only a temporary reprieve, plan to use ...
Created on 10 November 2016
11. Application of Convention NO. 169 by Domestic and International Courts in Latin America
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
International Labour Organization The Convention No. 169 is a central element of the contemporary international normative framework for the promotion and protection of the rights of indigenous and tribal ...
Created on 23 April 2016
12. El Salvador: Vote Against Gold
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... any digging for gold in Arcatao. Since 2009 this land is under a moratorium. The government in San Salvador has put a temporary halt to all mining projects, in order to protect the environment – especially ...
Created on 02 January 2016
13. El Salvador, violence and impunity
(Mining and Human Rights)
... of environmentalists. It is not, however, the only theory that suggests there may be more powerful forces at play than the local community grievances suggested by Delgado. Asked to explain the contemporary ...
Created on 13 February 2014
14. The Rights Clash
(Commerce Group)
... to a 2007 poll carried out by the University of Central America. In response, in 2009, the government placed a temporary moratorium on mining and denied permits to two North American companies. But it ...
Created on 15 July 2013
15. Sign Your Organization On to Support the Mesa
(2013 International Support for Mining Ban)
... that participate in the National Roundtable against Metallic Mining, as they demand a definitive - and not just a temporary - solution to the problems and conflict created by metallic mining.   September ...
Created on 31 October 2012
16. Water Forum of El Salvador Opposes the Government's Mining Suspensio
(2013 North America Tour)
... mining in El Salvador.  The Water Forum criticized the fact that the Government’s bill is only a temporary solution to the debate around mining and said that by not addressing this problem and by allowing ...
Created on 22 August 2012
17. The Salvadoran Government Proposes Suspending Mining in El Salvador
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... that would temporary suspend all mining activity in El Salvador. The bill states that there are not the necessary conditions for mining in El Salvador.   If passed, the suspension would nullify all current ...
Created on 09 August 2012
18. The ICSID Rules the Pacific Rim Case will Continue
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... fees. Five million dollars could provide one year worth of adult literacy classes for 140,000 people in El Salvador or feed 60,570 families in temporary housing for a full two weeks during a natural disaster. ...
Created on 03 June 2012
19. The costs of ICSID arbitration and the consequences for the enjoyment of social rights in El Salvador
(FTAs & ISDS)
... vaccination program. Five million USD could serve to feed 60,570 families in temporary housing for a full two weeks during a natural disaster[8]. If this and more can be accomplished with five million ...
Created on 29 February 2012

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