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21. El Salvador – When The Seeds Of Resistance Bloom
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... international governance institutions were being manipulated in favour of corporate interests, it became not just a powerful unifying narrative, but a story everybody wanted to tell. According to Manuel ...
Created on 23 June 2017
22. El Salvador Passes Historic Law To Ban Metal Mining
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
Sebastian Rosemont: Huffinton Post The vote marked the culmination of a decade of pressure from activists, environmentalists and the Catholic church. In an historic vote, El Salvador became the first ...
Created on 16 April 2017
23. In El Salvador, OceanaGold Must ‘Pay Up and Pack Up’
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... to public demands for a prohibition on all metal mining. Nonetheless, once it became clear that its lobbying strategy was a complete failure, the company announced the suit, brazenly claiming that the ...
Created on 03 March 2017
24. Community of San Jose Las Flores commemorates 11th anniversary of the defeat of a mining company.
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... of the community are aware of it.  “We are troubled by the lack of action from the national government to implement a national mining ban. That is the reason why on September 2014, we became first municipality ...
Created on 27 September 2016
25. Across the Pacific: building a global struggle against the free-trade agenda of OceanaGold
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
Leon Dulce: IPCM  The 2016 World Social Forum recently held in Montreal, Canada became an important opportunity to develop an important global undertaking: the forging of an international people's campaign ...
Created on 26 September 2016
26. Pacific Rim tried to negotiate with the government anticipating and adverse ruling
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... that goes against the interests and security of the population and the environment. Last year the Institute of Public Opinion of the UCA (IUDOP) conducted a nationwide survey where it became clear that ...
Created on 26 September 2016
27. Resistance against the bloodsucker
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... behind him. Morales is the head of the national office for the defense of human rights. “In the end, they became deadly conflicts after the company failed to receive the permit to mine precious metals”. ...
Created on 03 January 2016
28. El Salvador: Vote Against Gold
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... granted a mining authorization. At the same time, the project was met with a massive opposition of the population. Local environmental activists became victims of assassinations as a result of this. Pacific ...
Created on 02 January 2016
29. Arcatao: participatory democracy defeats mining
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
Marina Bonneti Successful referendum puts Municipality of Arcatao among the few official Mining-Free Territories in El Salvador On Sunday, November 8th Arcatao became the fourth Municipality in the ...
Created on 11 November 2015
30. The obscure legal system that lets corporations sue countries
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... dubbed the “road to riches”, when influence-peddling became an American growth industry. Parada, a soft-spoken 55-year-old from El Salvador, is one of a handful of lawyers in the world who specialise in ...
Created on 11 July 2015
31. Amid TPP Fight, El Salvador Mining Case Shows Danger of Corporate Tribunals
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... town of Nueva Trinidad recently became the third municipality in El Salvador to officially declare itself a 'territory free of mining' through a historic popular community consultation. First published ...
Created on 18 May 2015
32. Nueva Trinidad: 3rd Municipality in El Salvador to Declare Itself a “Mining Free Territory”
(Territories Free of Mining)
Juan Carlos Jimenez - Upside Down World Nueva Trinidad, an agricultural town in the department of Chalatenango in El Salvador, became the third municipality in the country to declare itself a “Territory ...
Created on 18 April 2015
33. WILL EL SALVADOR BE FORCED TO PAY $301 MILLION FOR VALUING CLEAN WATER OVER GOLD?
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... in El Salvador have decided to move ahead of the national debate and have already set out their position on mining. At the beginning of March, the municipality of Nueva Trinidad, in Chalatenango, became ...
Created on 18 April 2015
34. The water issue is thorny for the right wing in El Salvador: Interview with Lourdes Palacios
(Mining and Human Rights)
... be predominantly private and thus would have control of a natural resource. Privatization was first raised since by Alfredo Cristiani when he became president; but our party FMLN has always considered ...
Created on 23 January 2015
35. SECOND MUNICIPALITY DECLARED FREE OF METAL MINING IN EL SALVADOR
(Territories Free of Mining)
... became evident as right wing members of the commission voted to reverse an early decision to set up a publicly managed National Water Commission to administer water resources of the country, instead they ...
Created on 01 December 2014
36. News Summary international campaign against OceanaGold
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... recently became part of a larger Australian-based corporation. When OceanaGold bought Pacific Rim last year, it identified the Salvadoran mining prospects as a key asset, even though gold prices have sunk ...
Created on 25 September 2014
37. Meet the Company Suing El Salvador for the Right to Poison Its Water
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... company operate because it wants to protect its main source of water. The case pits El Salvador’s government against a Canadian gold-mining company that recently became part of a larger Australian-based ...
Created on 04 September 2014
38. Environmentalists call for concrete signals of a sustainability agenda for El Salvador
(Background and reports )
... elections.  But as the campaign picked up esteem in late 2013 and the party released its campaign platform,   environmental leaders became disappointed that the document did not reflect the proposals ...
Created on 12 June 2014
39. Ángel Ibarra: “We will promote environmental sustainability in the country”
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... degree in Public Health with an emphasis on maternal and child nutrition at INCAP in Guatemala. He then received a Masters in Development Sociology at the Autonomous University of Mexico. He became aware ...
Created on 28 May 2014
40. Buzzwords:Responsible Mining
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
by Robin Broad First published in: http://triplecrisis.com/buzzwords-responsible-mining/#more-8529 Buzzwords and Fuzzwords - terms that became popular but mean vastly different things to different ...
Created on 22 September 2013
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