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1. REPORT: Golden opportunities for profits, corporate plunder for OceanaGold Corporation
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
Report by IBON International "Towards curbing OceanaGold’s dirty operations in El Salvador and the Philippines, efforts of people’s organisations, communities, environmental advocates as well as international ...
Created on 24 August 2018
2. Mining for Profits in International Tribunals - Updated
(Background and reports )
... the institutional framework that allows global firms to extract enormous profits in international arbitration tribunals. It then documents the increased use of these rights by transnational corporations ...
Created on 12 July 2013
3. Mining for Profits
(FTAs & ISDS)
Mining for Profits Sarah Anderson, IPS Global Economy Project Director Posted: Huffington Post-12/16/11 02:46 PM ET The small country of El Salvador has dared to stand up against powerful international ...
Created on 29 February 2012
4. Canada’s Mining Industry Is Spreading Havoc Around the World — With Justin Trudeau’s Support
(Mining and Human Rights)
... rights” accords limit the ability of governments to regulate corporations operating on their soil. If the rules interfere with the profits of Canadian mining interests, they can sue the local administration ...
Created on 07 May 2021
5. A New Environmentalist Playbook An improbable victory in El Salvador offers lessons for grassroots activists worldwide
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... to mine or pay more than $300 million to cover not only its costs but the future profits it would forgo. The water defenders and their allies responded by mounting an international campaign to put the ...
Created on 23 April 2021
6. Swiss mining transnational Glencore in the Andes
(General mining reports )
... of a “framework agreement” between the company and the municipality, whereby 3% of the profits from mining activity are destined for the development of the province. Since its inception, organizations ...
Created on 22 April 2021
7. NEW BOOK: The water defenders - how ordinary people saved a country from corporate greed
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... corporations that value profits over the environment and the health of local communities. In 2002, a small group of citizens in El Salvador joined this global community of water defenders when representatives ...
Created on 14 January 2021
8. From dreams of gold to organic agriculture
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... countries, Torres´ perspective changed: “Pacific Rim talked about green mining. But we saw that the company was going to benefit from the profits and we were going to be left with the damages to the environment. ...
Created on 05 January 2021
9. 2020 in Review: Latin America and Investment Arbitration
(ISDS)
... awards, in order to increase the value of certain contracts and, hence, increase the company’s profits. In response to this ploy, public and private entities in Peru have endeavored to develop a means ...
Created on 19 December 2020
10. Mining Injustice Through International Arbitration
(ISDS)
... of millions of dollars in unearned profits. In its $400 million claim, which is currently proceeding at a World Bank Group tribunal, the Nevada-based KCA argues that the Guatemalan government failed ...
Created on 21 October 2020
11. New Report: Mining Injustice Through International Arbitration: Countering Kappes, Cassiday & Associates’ Claims over a Gold-mining Project in Guatemala
(Regional News)
... El Tambor gold mine — or compensating the mining firm for hundreds of millions of dollars in future profits it had little hope of ever earning. “KCA bought the project knowing there was social conflict ...
Created on 24 August 2020
12. Corporate Lawsuits Could Devastate Poor Countries Grappling with COVID-19
(FTAs & ISDS)
By Manuel Perez Rocha - Foreign Policy in Focus Wealthy corporations may use trade courts to keep public health measures from cutting into their profits. The country was in freefall. Formerly middle ...
Created on 23 July 2020
13. With Passage of NAFTA 2.0, Congress Boosts Fossil Fuel Polluters, Particularly in Mexico
(FTAs & ISDS)
... and the United States) puts new limitations on investor claims. For example, claims cannot be made for indirect expropriation, which is used by companies to get “compensated” for profits it expected to ...
Created on 03 May 2020
14. Report: OceanaGold in the Philippines
(Background and reports )
... an Australian-Canadian company, is one of dozens of transnational mining companies in the Philippines that have been reaping profits by mining gold, silver, copper, and other minerals. Its underground ...
Created on 05 September 2019
15. New Report Exposes Mining Companies Suing Latin American Countries Where Communities Defend Land and Environment
(FTAs & ISDS)
...  Indirect Expropriationwas invoked in over half of the cases. This is especially egregious since it relates to so-called expropriation of anticipated future lost profits, rather than the physical seizure ...
Created on 03 May 2019
16. Letter of support for defenders of "La Puya" ...
(La Puya International Support Letter)
... effect pressures the government to restart the mine, or otherwise pay the company hundreds of millions of dollars in lost potential profits. CAFTA-DR, like thousands of other international investment ...
Created on 26 February 2019
17. The international dimensions of the fight for water in El Salvador
(Water Crisis El Salvador)
... of multilateral institutions designed to guarantee their profits at the expense of the common good. Milagro Guevara, Adjunct Ombudswoman for the Environment from the Office for Defence of Human Rights, ...
Created on 02 July 2018
18. How El Salvador Won on Mining
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... mining companies, Pacific Rim and the Commerce Group, sued the government of El Salvador for $400 million in unrealized profits. The cases were heard by the World Bank’s International Center for Settlement ...
Created on 07 May 2018
19. ICSID on the bench of the accused
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... State the payment of 250 million on the basis of potential profits lost due to not having received the government permits to carry out the El Dorado gold mining project, constituted an act of blackmailing ...
Created on 14 November 2017
20. In Mining-Affected Communities, Water Is Becoming More Precious Than Gold
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... miner OceanaGold. The suit, filed in 2009 by OceanaGold predecessor Pacific Rim, based in Vancouver, alleged loss of potential profits after the company failed to meet regulatory requirements to receive ...
Created on 26 June 2017
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