... timeline remains unclear.
November 7: Tahoe records a US$170mn impairment at Escobal, due to a later than previously anticipated restart, which the company expects in late-2019.
December 14: KCA lodges ...
... protests and promote the mining sector
Mining companies are using the pandemic as an opportunity to hide their dirty track records and present themselves as public-minded saviours
Mining companies ...
... that chronic diseases such as cancer, kidney failure and diabetes have skyrocketed among the inhabitants of communities bordering Guatemala. The death records of the inhabitants of those communities indicated ...
... the time when OGPI was starting its underground operations and environmental spills were recorded (from the reports of Oceana Gold Corp.).
• The correlation between water extraction and rehabilitation ...
... 64 activists killed, and the Philippines, with 43.
Leon Dulce, Kalikasan’s national coordinator, has spent nearly a decade recording the number of people killed while trying to protect the environment. ...
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Rep. Cullamat said that Oceanagold’s longstanding negative track record of violating various human rights, including socio-economic and particularly environmental rights of its affected communities as ...
... numerous reports and other fact-finding missions on OceanaGold’s record in the Philippines. We have carefully reviewed the multitude of complaints about the mine from the local community and provincial ...
... has figured in human rights violations. Kalikasan PNE noted that from 2007 to 2018 various rights violations were recorded such as lack of free, prior, and informed consent (FPIC), forced demolitions, ...
... strategic aquifers, were converted by a national investment group into huge shopping centers;
The Record battery factory in the community of El Sitio del Niño utilized highly toxic raw materials for ...
... 2015 setting an all time record of 74 new cases in just one year.
Pacific Rim is a Canadian company, also registered in the Cayman Islands tax haven. In its first attempt to bring the ISDS case against ...
... 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 ...
... rules or regulations. In fact, OceanaGold has a successful track record of operating for 27 years in accordance with Australian and Canadian standards on health, safety, environment, community and sustainability ...
... PacRim case at ICSID, now funded by OceanaGold, continued.
While claiming to be environmentally friendly and socially responsible, OceanaGold is in reality a gold mining company with a track record of ...
... killing of activists and human rights abuses.
Oceana Gold’s Record in the Philippines
The case of Oceana Gold Philippines Inc. (OGPI), a wholly owned subsidiary of Oceana Gold in Didipio, Nueva Vizcaya, ...
... Human Rights Ombudsman. Cerro Blanco is owned by Goldcorp, a Canadian mining giant that also owns the Marlin Mine whose record of pollution has raised opposition to mining throughout western Guatemala. ...
... record in the Philippines. “We learned that the company carries out mining projects in communities that are very environmentally vulnerable. We know that the Human Rights Commission in that country is ...
... to it, I think it is better to pay the money, than to pay the consequences,” Archbishop José Luis Escobar Alas recently stated to a Canadian national radio reporter.
Pacific Rim Mining’s track record ...
... Gold has a record of human rights violations in the Philippines is of extreme concern to La Mesa.
What are our objectives
To engage in a dialogue with the Australian public, academics, civil ...
... already established in case of the Record Car Batteries factory or the current kidney failure epidemic unleashed by the indiscriminate use of pesticides and other agro-toxics.
There is no economic justification ...
... They also talked about the challenges of linking many of the deaths to the poisoning of the mine because often when people die the hospital records the death as a natural death as opposed to something ...