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21. In Guatemala, north american mining company sues in La Puya case: (Kappes Kassiday & Associates Guatemala ); By Sara Frabes - AVISPA MIDIA On December 11, 2018, the American mining company Kappes Cassiday & Associates filed an international arbitration lawsuit for $300 million against the State of Guatemala ...; Created on 18 September 2019
22. Canadian mining companies are behaving badly in the Global South—and Wall Street is profiting from it: (FTAs & ISDS); ... protections that permits foreign firms to challenge government policies, laws and court decisions through private arbitration.Under the USMCA, this investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) system will ...; Created on 05 May 2019
23. Over two hundred organizations denounce multimillion-dollar suit brought by U.S. mining firm against Guatemala: (Media Releases); ... of blackmail to try to undermine Court decisions, as well as the peaceful resistance and rights of local communities, should not be allowed. Unfortunately, we have already seen such arbitration used for ...; Created on 04 May 2019
24. The Peaceful Resistance of La Puya fights for the right to water: (Regional News); ... suspend the mining licence due to lack of prior consultation. Operations at the mine are suspended. May 2018 -- KCA submits its notice of intent to file arbitration under the Free Trade Agreement between ...; Created on 03 May 2019
25. New Report Exposes Mining Companies Suing Latin American Countries Where Communities Defend Land and Environment: (FTAs & ISDS); ... with Latin American Lives and Sovereignty through Supranational Arbitration,” exposes how transnational mining companies file multi-million dollar suits against Latin American countries to challenge key ...; Created on 03 May 2019
26. Letter of support for defenders of "La Puya" ...: (La Puya International Support Letter); ... company brings a US$300 million arbitration claim against Guatemala to the World Bank´s International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) over alleged violations of the Dominican Republic-Central ...; Created on 26 February 2019
27. More than one hundred organizations reject the unjust payment of USD $31 million to Canadian mining company Bear Creek: (Regional News); ... cancellation of its project in 2011. This was the result of a case that the company filed against the country at ICSID, the investment arbitration arm of the World Bank, in 2014. In December 2017, the ...; Created on 16 September 2018
28. How El Salvador Won on Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... of Investment Disputes, an international arbitration organization. Al Gedicks, emeritus professor of environmental sociology at the University of Wisconsin–La Crosse and a founder of the Midwest Coalition ...; Created on 07 May 2018
29. ICSID on the bench of the accused: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... where Mining Watch Canada participated, released a press statement entitled: “There are no winners in the Pacific Rim Mining Company VS El Salvador”. The statement focused on the arbitration of the International ...; Created on 14 November 2017
30. OceanaGold announces it will stay in El Salvador despite prohibition: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); P. Cabezas Members of the National Roundtable Against Metallic Mining demanded the immediate removal of Australian/Canadian OceanaGold mining company of El Salvador after the Attorney General's Office ...; Created on 27 July 2017
31. Historic Wins for Democracy and Rights in El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... 2016: After a seven-year battle, a World Bank Group-affiliated arbitration tribunal ruled unanimously against a global mining firm that sued El Salvador for not granting it a mining license.2 Global corporations ...; Created on 26 June 2017
32. El Salvador – When The Seeds Of Resistance Bloom: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... in the world to do so. The historic vote came just six months after a World Bank tribunal ruled in favour of the country’s government in an international investment arbitration case brought by a Canadian ...; Created on 23 June 2017
33. El Salvador becomes first country to ban metals mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... The following year, the company filed a claim against El Salvador with the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), a supranational arbitration tribunal housed at the World ...; Created on 16 April 2017
34. Political parties give assurances that they will support the prohibition of Metal Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... Commission on Environment and Climate Change to give a green light to the vote on a law prohibiting mining. A World Bank (WB) arbitration body ruled in October 2016 in favor of El Salvador and against ...; Created on 09 March 2017
35. Salvadorean Human Rights Attorney Congratulates Municipality that Rejected Mining Through Referendum: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... to the vote on a law prohibiting mining. One of the last legal initiatives against mining was presented last February 7 by officials of the Salvadoran Catholic Church. A World Bank (WB) arbitration body ...; Created on 08 March 2017
36. OceanaGold (Pacific Rim) plans to sue the State; organizations demand mining ban: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... the arbitration award or they will submit a plea of nullity. El Salvador won the lawsuit against Pacific Rim / OceanaGold, which had been filed in 2009 by the company to request the State the payment of ...; Created on 13 February 2017
37. Transnational mining company loses the battle, but the war continues.: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... in legal costs imposed by the ICSID arbitration tribunal in dismissing its claim. Following the ruling, the company issued a statement in which it said that it would evaluate the path to follow regarding ...; Created on 05 January 2017
38. PRESS RELEASE: Permanent Alert against Metallic Mining in El Salvador: (Media Releases); PRESS RELEASE / DEC. 06, 2016 On December 14, it will be 2 months since an ICSID Tribunal issued the arbitration award condemning Pacific Rim / Oceana Gold to pay the Salvadoran State $8 million US ...; Created on 04 January 2017
39. EL SALVADOR’S WIN AGAINST THE US MINING COMPANY PACIFIC RIM: A VERY NUANCED VICTORY: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... state in face of a foreign mining company (a sort of David and Goliath story), or because of the antagonism arbitration proceedings can generate from a human rights point of view, or because of the harmful ...; Created on 28 December 2016
40. Mining company delays complying with the ruling and reaches out to the government of Sanchez Ceren: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... payment of the $ 8 million compensation imposed last October 14 by the International Center for Arbitration (ICSID) In Washington, but it has initiated talks with representatives of the Salvadoran government ...; Created on 28 December 2016

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