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21. Timeline: Guatemala mine suspensions: (Regional News); ... Escobal mining license. May 24: KCA confirms plans to pursue a US$300mn arbitration claim over the Tambor mine suspension, which it says resulted a series of acts and omissions by the state that were ...; Created on 23 July 2020
22. Corporate Lawsuits Could Devastate Poor Countries Grappling with COVID-19: (FTAs & ISDS); ... policymakers now have to worry that their policy responses could make them the target of lawsuits. A separate legal system In fact, law firms already seem to be salivating over the potential to profit ...; Created on 23 July 2020
23. Anglo American responses to AGM queries raise more questions than they answer: (Mining and Human Rights); ... of water for mining activity involves turning water into a non-renewable resource which is then overexploited and contaminated, preventing its regeneration. Anglo American affirms that the Quellaveco ...; Created on 22 July 2020
24. Canadian mining companies are behaving badly in the Global South—and Wall Street is profiting from it: (FTAs & ISDS); ... protections that permits foreign firms to challenge government policies, laws and court decisions through private arbitration.Under the USMCA, this investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) system will ...; Created on 05 May 2019
25. New Report Exposes Mining Companies Suing Latin American Countries Where Communities Defend Land and Environment: (FTAs & ISDS); ... companies are the most likely sector to make use of ISDS worldwide. Canadian mining companies make up the bulk of the mining firms that are suing governments in Latin America, including many junior exploration ...; Created on 03 May 2019
26. Rural Communities’ Struggle Against US-Owned Mine Continues in Guatemalan Supreme Court: (Regional News); ... a tiny amount when it is compared to other mining projects owned by Canadian firms, such as Goldcorp’s Marlin mine in San Marcos, or Tahoe Resources’ El Escobal Mine in San Rafael las Flores. In the first ...; Created on 27 August 2018
27. El Salvador: first anniversary of the mining ban A cause for celebration, but the new law faces dangers: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); Andrés McKinley - UK LAB On March 29th, 2017, the small country of El Salvador became the first nation in the world to exercise its sovereign right to say “no” to metallic mining after carefully analyzing ...; Created on 22 June 2018
28. Threats to the Law Against Metallic Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... with the idea of "Responsible Mining". But González affirms that there is no socially responsible mining that replaces what is lost in the ecosystems through extractive activity. Environmentalists also ...; Created on 07 May 2018
29. Historic Wins for Democracy and Rights in El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... many scientists are concluding that in certain countries and areas, mining should be prohibited.3 El Salvador is one such place. Global mining firms, most now headquartered in Canada and Australia, flooded ...; Created on 26 June 2017
30. El Salvador becomes first country to ban metals mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... Company is now evaluating its next steps but confirms that the El Dorado project and any opportunity in El Salvador are not part of the business strategy at this time,” according to the Minerales Torogoz ...; Created on 16 April 2017
31. El Salvador Votes for Water over Gold: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); By P. Cabezas & Sebastian Rosemont In response to enormous public pressure, lawmakers have rejected appeals by global corporations and voted to protect the country’s people and water supply by banning ...; Created on 16 April 2017
32. A wake-up call for Trump's trade agend: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... and jobs. The No. 1 NAFTA provision that does this is the investor-state clause. By making it easy for corporations to sue governments in other countries, this provision gives firms a big incentive ...; Created on 03 March 2017
33. Mining company delays complying with the ruling and reaches out to the government of Sanchez Ceren: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... the law firms Foley Hoag, who represented El Salvador in the process, and Crowell & Moring, which litigated on behalf of the mining company, evidences the reluctance of the applicant to comply with the ...; Created on 28 December 2016
34. El Salvador wins arbitration against Oceana Gold/Pacific Rim mining company: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... the attitude of the actual and the previous Government, as to stay firm in their decision to not permit mining and to not negotiate with the mining company. The arbitration award confirms once more something ...; Created on 20 October 2016
35. PRESS RELEASE: Coalition of Groups States “There are No Winners”: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... of what is wrong with investor-state-dispute-settlement clauses, whether they are inserted in domestic laws or bilateral or multilateral investment agreements. El Salvador’s experience confirms the threats ...; Created on 14 October 2016
36. Water Forum of El Salvador: Water law secretly negotiated by goverment and private sector: (Mining and Human Rights); ... been a proponent of the General Water Law, therefore we demand to be included in the discussion. The Water Forum reaffirms its commitment to the struggle for public and sustainable water management and ...; Created on 26 September 2016
37. “El Dorado Foundation” develops misleading social programs: Jennifer Moore: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... Vidalina Morales of the National Roundtable Against Mining, said that the research confirms the doubts and suspicions about the actions of the El Dorado Gold Oceana Foundation. "There are more than enough ...; Created on 07 March 2016
38. Yes to life, no to mining! – Report Back Delegation to El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... ways, through education projects and theatrical performances. His brother assures us that the perpetrators have been apprehended, but not the masterminds behind the murder: “The mining firms operate here, ...; Created on 03 February 2016
39. El Salvador: Just Saying No to Gold Mining: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... moratorium that prevents all mining firms – international and Salvadoran, public and private – from accessing El Salvador’s estimated 1.4 million ounces of gold deposits. Some in the Salvadoran media ...; Created on 03 January 2016
40. El Salvador presents new motion prior to the relasing of the verdict on the Pacific Rim case.: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... claims before the panel. At the end of these allegations, Luis Parada affirms that they asked the tribunal to consider the re-opening of the interim decision that was issued two years before, since time ...; Created on 26 October 2015

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