... km to the East of San Salvador. In the mine of San Sebastian, in the Department of La Union, the US company Commerce Group mined gold until the outbreak of the armed conflict at the beginning of the 1980s ...
... 95 applications for mining projects; 92 were for exploration permits and three for exploitation.
Most are located in the departments of La Union, San Miguel, Morazán and Cabañas. There were also requests ...
... these initiatives to the departments of Cabañas and La Unión, two other places that are in the sight of companies that are waiting for permits
Deputy Aurelia López, of the ruling Farabundo Martí National ...
... water.
The damages caused by metallic mining can be observed in the Department of La Union, about 120 km to the East. In Santa Rosa de Lima lies the San Sebastian mine, which used to be the biggest in ...
... programs. Furthermore, in 2011 he pressured El Salvador’s Ministry of Labor to dissolve the union at an AVX-Kyocera plant that manufactures SIM cards for his phone companies. Workers had formed the union ...
... plant because of mining.
The most complex abandoned site was found to be the San Sebastian mine in Santa Rosa de Lima, La Union, where the population are facing the consequences of acid drainage that ...
... San Sebastian
11:30am – Lunch in Santa Rosa de Lima, La Union
12:30pm - Visit to the San Sebastian mine, a mine abandoned by US based Commerce Group that highlights the toxic legacy of mining in El ...
... model on which it is based.
Canadian unions support Salvaide’s Stop the Suits Tour, a campaign to raise awareness of the ISDS currently affecting the people of El Salvador.
OceanaGold, a Canadian-Australia ...
... free trade agreements, such as the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the Canada and European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), and the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP). ...
... Ottawa and Toronto in the coming days for to seek support from Canadian social and trade union organizations against OceanaGold’s law suit.
Cortez also plans to meet with Canadian parliamentarians, ...