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1. El Salvador: 49 exploration permits were once approved: (Background and reports ); Xenia Gonzales Oliva: El Diario de Hoy / Translation P. Cabezas Between 2000-2010, 49 exploration permits were approved, they are all currently under an administrative freeze. 49 applications for metal ...; Created on 07 January 2016
2. International Week of Action Free the Santa Marta 5: (Free the Santa Marta 5); ... anniversary of the historic mining prohibition, approved unanimously by the Legislative Assembly in 2017, there are signs that the government of President Nayib Bukele is creating conditions to overturn ...; Created on 08 April 2023
3. Public statement of the Local Governments of Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador, members of the Lempa River Trinational Border Association, regarding the “Cerro Blanco” mining project, developed by the ...: (Cerro Blanco); ... That in 2007 the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources of Guatemala approved an Environmental Impact Study for the company ENTREMARES S.A., (subsidiary of the Canadian based Goldcorp) which had ...; Created on 12 June 2022
4. PRESS RELESE: Environmental Organizations Dennounce Privatization of Water in El Salvador: (Media Releases); THE GENERAL LAW ON WATER RESOURCES APPROVED BY THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY LEGALIZES WATER INJUSTICE, PROMOTES THE THEFT AND DISPOSSESSION OF WATER IN THE TERRITORIES San Salvador, December 22, 2021. ...; Created on 23 December 2021
5. Communique: Community organizations fear the return of metal mining in El Salvador: (Media Releases); ... legislation creating the General Directorate of Energy, Hydrocarbons and Mines, approved by the Legislative Assembly on October 26. The objectives of this new Directorate are to authorize, regulate and ...; Created on 16 December 2021
6. El Salvador: Metallic Mining Threatens Again: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... of the Salvadoran people. Even more worrisome is recent legislation creating the General Directorate of Energy, Hydrocarbons and Mines, approved by the Legislative Assembly on October 26 of this year ...; Created on 14 December 2021
7. The law on the right to water reaches Parliament, "people's lives are at stake" warns Cardinal Rosa Chav: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... and sanitation as a right is also pending in the Legislative Assembly. The provision, approved by the previous legislature, requires 56 votes to enter into force (see Fides, 17/10/2020). Hundreds of Salvadorans ...; Created on 15 June 2021
8. Gov’t finalizing terms for OceanaGold’s FTAA renewal: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... significant socio-economic benefits when the renewal has been approved,” Michael Holmes, president and CEO of OceanaGold, said. “OceanaGold is a responsible gold mining Company that is focused on operating ...; Created on 05 May 2021
9. A Private Government in Honduras Moves Forward: (Mining and Human Rights); ... in the reformed constitutional charter approved on July 26, 2019, is a highly corporatized model of governance with minimal opportunities for participation. A primary authority, the Technical Secretary ...; Created on 15 February 2021
10. Gold mine fined $100,000. Toxic air pollution found at big mine near tiny town: (OceanaGold); ... is located at the site of a historic mining operation that closed. Following months of public meetings, DHEC approved a permit in October 2013 to develop the mine and an ore processing plant. Now, ...; Created on 12 February 2021
11. From dreams of gold to organic agriculture: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... the Salvadoran Congress approved, in March 2017, a law that prohibited metal mining, the only regulation of its kind in the world. With this law, no company can extract gold, silver, copper, or other metallic ...; Created on 05 January 2021
12. A Canadian Mining Giant Is Quietly Ramping Up Work in New Zealand. Locals Are Worried: (OceanaGold); ... been approved by local officials yet, said resident Sue Peachey. “My mother came over and handed me the project overview of this tunnel and I just felt sick to my stomach,” Peachey told VICE World News. ...; Created on 17 December 2020
13. U.S.-Backed ANDA Appointment Threatens the Salvadoran People’s Water Resources: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... Despite the 2013 success in combating the pressure, former U.S. Ambassador Mari Carmen Aponte later insisted on reforms to the new law. Near the end of 2017, the Legislative Assembly approved reforms to ...; Created on 01 December 2020
14. EL SALVADOR - Water recognized as a public good and human right, the satisfaction of the Church: (Water Crisis El Salvador); Agenzia Fides San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - The Legislative Assembly of El Salvador unanimously approved, with 78 votes in favor and no votes against, the reform of the Constitution of the Republic ...; Created on 30 November 2020
15. Thousands of Salvadorans endure COVID-19 without running water to wash their hands: (Regional News); ... water processing plant that should have been out of use or upgraded years ago with funds approved by the legislative Assembly in 2012, 2016, and 2018. The work was never completed. Las Pavas is the only ...; Created on 11 September 2020
16. HONDURAS: Human rights defenders threatened by armed groups during quarantine: (Regional News); ... In Honduras, the Council of Ministers approved an Executive Decree on April 11, which establishes "measures to guarantee food sovereignty and security." The next day, President Juan Orlando Hernández ...; Created on 31 July 2020
17. The state of Siege in Izabal and Alta Verapaz: shelters, poppies, and the fear of repression: (Regional News); ... Nahualá and Santa Catarina Ixtahuacán, Sololá, are still waiting to make their first statement, Santos said. Government decree 13-2020 must be approved by Congress; however, the government has not forwarded ...; Created on 22 July 2020
18. With Passage of NAFTA 2.0, Congress Boosts Fossil Fuel Polluters, Particularly in Mexico: (FTAs & ISDS); Manuel Perez Rocha - Inequality NAFTA 2.0 cleared another hurdle on January 16 as the U.S. Senate approved the trade deal with bipartisan support. Officially called the United States-Mexico-Canada ...; Created on 03 May 2020
19. Guatemalan Water Protectors Persist, Despite Mining Company Threats: (Regional News); ... broke down between the farmers and the company when the community learned that the environmental impact assessment for the project had been approved without their prior knowledge. Then, this month, another ...; Created on 03 May 2020
20. Ostúa River contaminated with lead and arsenic from Cerro Blanco mine: (Cerro Blanco); ... the spread of cross border contamination, since the Law Prohibiting Metal Mining in El Salvador (approved on March 2017) is only applicable on the national territory. The researcher and environmentalist ...; Created on 21 April 2020

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