... a mining license for Escobal.
July 24: Guatemalan NGO CALAS says Escobal’s mining license has been suspended as a result of a court ruling. Tahoe Resources says the permit remains fully effective.
2014 ...
... Twenty community members have faced unjust legal accusations and there was a past attempt on the life of a member of the resistance. Between 2012 and 2014, the community turned out en masse — with women ...
... mining in 2014. It is noteworthy that water extraction increased almost tenfold from 2010 to 2011 when full-swing mine development was commencing. Water extraction also doubled from 2013 to 2014 during ...
... even killed in violent confrontations with the country’s military and police, as well as with private Israeli and U.S. security forces hired by Tahoe Resources. The mine went into production in 2014, but ...
... population have been devastating. A report from the Permanent Observatory of Human Rights in the Lower Aguan, a local human rights organization that monitors human rights violations, reported in 2014, ...
... hold, yet to be resolved, and failed settlement attempts have marred negotiations.
In 2014, Earth Rights International accused Barrick Gold of “coercive settlement provisions,” alleging the company tabled ...
... Gulf of Ulloa, in the municipality of Comondú, where there has been a fishing ban since 2014 to protect loggerhead turtles.
The company would apply a mining technique that has never been tested, which ...
... causing ten wells, two creeks, and a spring to dry.
As early as 2014, an environmental investigation mission in Didipio found damages to forests, air pollution from dusty roads and stockpiles, and massive ...
... at the roadblock.
May 22, 2014 -- Hydrogeology expert Robert Moran states that the company's environmental impact assessment on the mine was the worst he had seen in 42 years of experience.
May 23, ...
... 2006 and 2014; El Salvador, four; Nicaragua, three, and Honduras suffered the worst part, with 119, according to the study of ACAFREMIN cited above.
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... cancellation of its project in 2011. This was the result of a case that the company filed against the country at ICSID, the investment arbitration arm of the World Bank, in 2014. In December 2017, the ...
... early 2014, was fast-tracked to production, moving from a preliminary economic assessment to commercial production in less than two years. In 2016 it produced over 21 million ounces of silver, making it ...
... resistance on May 23, 2014. The first exportation of material was made in October 2014.
At the time of operation, the Tambor mine was processes nearly 200 tons of earth daily. The rocks and ore are ground ...
... effects of corporate mining activities. Various solidarity and investigative missions have also been held in Didipio in the Philippines, for instance in 2011, 2014 and 2015. These have exposed the implications ...
... a constitutional reform in 2014, which recognizes the existence of indigenous peoples in its territory, must ratify the ILO Convention 169 to guarantee the rights of its peoples.
We also ask that multilateral ...
... of the Anishinaabe Environmental Protection Alliance and a litigation support specialist for the Bad River tribe in northern Wisconsin, joined a delegation to El Salvador in 2014. There she witnessed the ...
... of the year as the 2014 electoral campaign occupied the minds of legislators.
In the meantime, pro-business groups actively organized their supporters to promote their own vision of a water law which ...
... help of local organizations, used the community referendum process as a legally binding tool to take direct political action. Since 2014, five municipalities in key mining zones voted overwhelmingly to ...
... letter to the head of the World Bank in 2011 signed by 244 international civil society organizations; another in 2014 signed by over 300 international groups; two Amicus Curiae/Friends of the Court briefs ...
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Contrary to balking over the suit, OceanaGold unapologetically persisted with it, while trying unsuccessfully to get a negotiated agreement with the government. Concurrently, since 2014, it reactivated ...