... surroundings that naturally benefit from the Asana River, and that they would inevitably be affected by the diversion.
In this sense, it is necessary to promote studies by independent researchers from ...
... to deliver the request.
Upon arrival they were greeted by the president of the Legislative Assembly and GANA legislator, Guillermo Gallegos, who assured that his party will support the request. They were ...
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To the Regional Authorities and other national and local entities:
i. That they implement an honest vigilance of mining activities that bring many environmental, social, cultural, and even economic ...
... a state (a government project to create areas subject to a special regime, where investors would be in charge of tax policy, security and conflict resolution). They are actually monarchies because we are ...
... urban projects should be considered as industrial and commercial projects, due to their lucrative purpose, as such they should be expressly regulated so that their permits are not prioritized as priority ...
... that "at the end of the visit of the IGF consultants, they expected to have a diagnostic of the mining industry in El Salvador and to know the real situation of the resources in order to evaluate the social, ...
... regulations, instructions, resolutions, standards, agreements and other general provisions […] will remain in force […] while they are not expressly repealed or modified”. This ambiguity clearly opens ...
... State to implement the law. In particular, the report points to a government´s debt with communities affected by mining: they still face the impacts of acid drainage in abandoned mines, there has not been ...
... they reaffirmed their “rejection of the mining project as destructive and a threat to the life of the population and their natural commons.”
Almost seven years earlier to the day, on May 23, 2014, police ...
... Sagittarius Mining Inc. (SMI) in Tampakan, South Cotabato.
These developments are disconcerting, for they are the exact opposite of what “recovery” should look like. If there’s anything this pandemic ...
... Movement Association, when they dispersed people forming a barricade against the entry of fuel tankers into the operation site of Australian-Canadian mining firm Oceanagold in Nueva Vizcaya.
To recall, ...
... Derivada [El Tambor] mine, they have not yet received the execution, so the preparatory process cannot begin. This ruling is not yet final because the Constitutional Court must resolve extensions that ...
... shareholders submitted questions regarding the social and environmental impacts of the company’s business on communities in Mexico, Peru, Guatemala and Argentina, they were ignored and their questions ...
... the present president, Rodrigo Duterte, very actively promotes large-scale corporate mining in the Philippines,” he said.
“With the full force of the government behind them, companies feel that they ...
... rights, in practice, they have served to prop up Canada’s predatory, globe-trotting mining industry.
Crimes and Misconduct Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has recently criticized ...
... resources by extractive industries. They submitted five requests for public consultations and held demonstrations in front of city hall. They also erected a “Camp in Defence of Water and Life” to block ...
... of Rivera’s death, and its similarity to tactics used by right-wing death squads in El Salvador’s civil war of the 1980s, the water defenders were undeterred. They launched an ambitious campaign seeking ...
Terra Justa
The mining giant's activities in Latin America and how they demonstrate the need for a binding instrument on Business and Human Rights.
In June 2020, a statement signed by more than 200 ...
... to grow their own rice.
“It is clear that communities in and around Didipio have long opposed OceanaGold’s mine, and that they continue to oppose it. It is also clear that OceanaGold has ignored community ...
... but. They expressed dismay at Duterte’s executive order, which they say marks a complete pivot to a sector he condemned extensively in the early years of his presidency.
“President Duterte has completed ...