Carey L. Biron
WASHINGTON, Sep 16 2014 (IPS) - A multilateral arbitration panel here began final hearings Monday in a contentious and long-running dispute between an international mining company and ...
Carey L. Biron
WASHINGTON, Sep 16 2014 (IPS) - A multilateral arbitration panel here began final hearings Monday in a contentious and long-running dispute between an international mining company and ...
... $100m from the government in compensation for lost potential earnings after the government cited environmental grounds in denying them a permit to resume operations. Its case has recently been discontinued by ...
... often cited by environmentalists is the growing social vulnerability to extreme weather phenomena caused by continued environmental degradation. The country placed number four in a 2012 report by German ...
... financial issues cited by Goldcorp, we have denounced before that the technical information presented to the Guatemalan government to apply for exploration and exploitation permits was inaccurate and as ...
... opposition.
The Human Rights Ombudsman’s office has received a “constant series of complaints about mining since 2006,” cited Cortez at the conference. The Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) ...
... earnings as an injury that allows foreign firms to sue El Salvador under international trade tribunals bypassing national justice mechanisms.
The constitutional challenge to CAFTA-DR cited by members ...
... drainage from large-scale gold mining,” with cyanide at nine times the accepted level.
The National Roundtable Against Metallic Mining in El Salvador has cited these examples of environmental degradation, ...
... own destiny. We are pleased and excited by the strength the people of Wisconsin are showing because together we are telling the world that human and environmental rights are non-negotiable and we will ...
... the way in which it wants to build its own destiny. We are pleased and excited by the strength you, as civil society, are showing today because together we are telling the world that human rights, labor ...
... mining was cited as the “deadliest” sector.
Last week, September 28, the Center for Environment Concerns – Philippines (CEC) recognized the valiant environment defenders who put their lives on the ...
... they were not consulted about the project before it started operating. They are worried that a legally binding plebiscite in November 2019 that overwhelmingly rejected mining in the region is not being ...