... pro-business president, Antonio Saca, succumbed to popular pressure and declared that he wouldn’t issue any additional mining exploitation permits. The FMLN candidate, Mauricio Funes, promised that if ...
... of the risk that the law could be repealed.
The archbishop of El Salvador, Jose Luis Escobar Alas, a fierce proponent of the prohibition declared during his Sunday March 25th press conference that ...
... 2017, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte surprised many by listening to the call of strong peoples’ movements as he declared that a ban on new open pit-mining would remain in place. This, despite a concerted ...
Translated from Ultima Hora
Carlos Calleja, the candidate to the presidency for the Republican Nationalist Alliance, ARENA party, considers himself to be a true environmentalist and has declared he is ...
... Pacific Rim Mining first announced its intention to sue in April 2009, after outgoing Salvadoran President Saca declared that he would not issue any new mine permits until a strategic environmental assessment ...
... by the communities of Cinquera, the mayor, Pantaleón Noyola, said that the city council is of the disposition to support the community petition to declare the area free of metal mining.
“We are, all of ...
... 2014, he declared that "mining is unfeasible in El Salvador," so it is expected that at least during its five-year period there won’t be any concessions to extract metals in the country.
Metallic mining ...
... plus interest, owed by Pacific Rim / Oceana Gold, money that is needed to serve the rights of the population in need.
VI.- Given this scenario, the MNFM declares a permanent alert against the extractive ...
... that have to be met first for mining to be approved.”
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The groundswell against mining prompted the right-wing government to declare the moratorium, which has been kept in place ...