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1. Quick study guide: (RESOURCES); This section seeks to gather the latest background studies and resources related anti-mining struggle in El Salvador. Below you will find suggested reads for quick background and reference on different ...; Created on 08 September 2014
2. International Week of Action Free the Santa Marta 5: (Free the Santa Marta 5); ... multinational mining companies. Despite the lack of evidence, the Water Defenders were quickly sentenced to six months of pre-trial detention on trumped-up charges related to an alleged crime from nearly ...; Created on 08 April 2023
3. 250+ Groups Call On El Salvador to Drop Charges Against Water Defenders: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... cause for concern. But in El Salvador today, where torture and deadly prison conditions reign under the current state of exception, this quickly becomes a matter of life and death." While allies of the ...; Created on 20 January 2023
4. El Salvador’s Water Defenders and the Fight Against Toxic Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... like Vidalina Morales and Antonio Pacheco of the local Association for Economic and Social Development (ADES) were quickly alarmed by the dried-up springs and groundwater sources caused by the mine’s exploratory ...; Created on 11 April 2021
5. Gold mine expansion could produce $2.5 billion. But environmental problems linger: (OceanaGold); ... the site identify and rectify anything that could potentially cause environmental impact early and quickly.” OceanaGold’s most recently disclosed troubles follow three separate DHEC enforcement cases ...; Created on 30 March 2021
6. An unlikely eco-alliance in postwar El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... very quickly came to understand the jobs and the prosperity that they thought mining would bring were not the key thing that mining would bring. The key thing that mining was going to bring was that the ...; Created on 22 March 2021
7. 2020 in Review: Latin America and Investment Arbitration: (ISDS); ... In this post, we aim at giving you a quick look back to some of our most impactful publications in 2020. A new era for investment arbitration in Mexico In 2020, Mexico gained positive attention by ...; Created on 19 December 2020
8. Canadian corporate greed on display in Mexico mining dispute: (Regional News); ... can sometimes be enough to put communities in serious danger of legal persecution or violence. The community was quick to react, denouncing the company for continuing to treat them in an openly hostile ...; Created on 28 November 2020
9. One year on and Honduran Environmental Defenders still in jail without trial: (Mining and Human Rights); ... activities. They wanted proper consultation and to protect their river – a vital source of freshwater for the community. People from the surrounding communities quickly came to show their support. At ...; Created on 01 September 2020
10. Pandemic fuels mining extraction in Latin America: (Regional News); ... quickly, especially pregnant women. In Carrizalillo, of the 70% of the female workers who were pregnant between 2011 and 2012, 65% of them had abortions which resulted in the death of the baby, others ...; Created on 09 August 2020
11. Rural Communities’ Struggle Against US-Owned Mine Continues in Guatemalan Supreme Court: (Regional News); ... to the powder, and then packaged in large white squares, weighing a ton each. Jeremy Rozelle, a technician from Colorado who is the site manager at the Tambor mine, was quick to point out that this is ...; Created on 27 August 2018
12. Duterte's new warning to mining companie: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... are quick to point out that the Philippines is one of the top 5 mineral countries in the world in terms of reserves of gold, copper, nickel, and other metals. It is estimated to have over $1 trillion worth ...; Created on 08 May 2018
13. Looming threats to the mining prohibition in El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... But the development of the mining program quickly stalled due to fierce opposition from local communities who prevented mining explorations to begin in the departments of Cabañas and Chalatenango. By ...; Created on 08 February 2018
14. In Mining-Affected Communities, Water Is Becoming More Precious Than Gold: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... Local communities were quickly put off by exploration activities’ impacts on water sources – not to mention the company’s dealings with local landowners. As opposition grew, the discord sown by the company’s ...; Created on 26 June 2017
15. How Local, Grassroots Organizing Drove El Salvador’s Mining Ban: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... to talk to us, but very quickly, because her little daughter was getting restless, incessantly pulling at her skirt and asking to go home. Parents with kids are a common sight in Cinquera, where mothers ...; Created on 26 June 2017
16. PRESS RELEASE: OceanaGold, “the gold mining company of choice”? Not in El Salvador or the Philippines: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... in the northern part of the country. “OceanaGold recorded over US$130 million in profits from its global operations in 2016 and has all the means with which to quickly settle its debt and truly clear ...; Created on 23 June 2017
17. El Salvador becomes first country to ban metals mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... The legislative assembly’s multi-partisan commission on the environment and climate change quickly got to work on the proposed text. Before their final vote on the bill proposal, members of the commission ...; Created on 16 April 2017
18. In El Salvador, OceanaGold Must ‘Pay Up and Pack Up’: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... found, local opposition emerged and quickly gave rise to a national movement against metallic mining in El Salvador. Even the head of the Catholic Church joined local communities and organizations from ...; Created on 03 March 2017
19. ICSID decision buoys El Salvador in mining dispute: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... has no large scale mining, and public opposition quickly began to form against Pacific Rim. Given El Salvador’s dense population and the stress on its water resources, mining opponents especially feared ...; Created on 10 November 2016
20. Justice delayed: Environmentalists assassinated in Cabañas remembered: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... Free Trade Agreement, and later the Salvadorean investment law, to argue that it was entitled to such compensation because the decision not to extend the permit was political. The company quickly ran into ...; Created on 07 January 2016

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