... other problems at the Didipio mine that are typical of other mines in the country, in terms of very limited economic benefits and very high social costs. Supporters of the mining industry in the Philippines ...
... and ordered it to pay $8 million to the Salvadoran government to cover its legal costs.
The ruling, says Cabezas, “was a great surprise for all of us. It was over a technicality—the government put up ...
... the company to pay US$8 million in legal fees and costs to the government of El Salvador.
“After a long seven years of fighting this suit, during which there was a chill cast on policy making in the ...
... mining company's claim had no merit and ordered the payment of eight million dollars to the government of El Salvador to reimburse the costs of its legal defense.
One of the participants in the campaign ...
... dollars, but the ruling was favourable and the company had to refund $8 million dollars in legal costs.
More importantly, in March of this year, the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador approved a law ...
... had paid the eight million dollars, plus interests, in legal costs; however, it announced in the same statement that the company will be transforming its activities to sustainable, agricultural enterprises. ...
... El Salvador under the investment provisions of the Central America Free Trade Agreement and El Salvador’s investment law, seeking over $300 million to recover its costs and what it calculated as lost profits ...
... ruling found that the company had not met legal requirements to obtain a mine permit and ordered it to pay the Central American country US$8 million in legal costs. When the company had still not paid ...
... Bank Group.
Last October, ICSID found in favor of El Salvador and ordered OceanaGold to pay the country $8 million in legal costs. Earlier this month, an OceanaGold spokesperson told Mongabay that the ...
... In total, the tiny Central America country has paid more than US$13 million in legal costs and fees.
The ICSID ruling against the company came as a surprise because the tribunal has previously been criticized ...
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After seven years, four murders and US$24 million in total legal costs, in October 2016, a little-known World Bank tribunal trashed OceanaGold’s claim that El Salvador either owed it a mining ...
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Little has changed in the community since Commerce Group Corporation (CGC) abandoned mining operations in El Salvador in 2006 after its mining permits ...
... 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 ...
... dollars in legal costs as a result the lawsuit filed by the transnational mining company 2009 against the government. The three arbitrators of the tribunal unanimously debased all arguments of the company ...
... had with its counterpart, the mining company would be considering to request the annulment of the case, in the same ICSID court.
Keeping alive the case could take at least two years and increase the costs ...
... state for $250 million dollars.
The ruling of the ICSID favors El Salvador and has ordered the transnational mining company to pay $8 million to cover part of the legal costs.
Emilia, who lived part ...
... government US$8 million to cover its legal fees and costs. For Pedro Cabezas, also a member of the roundtable and the Association for the Development of El Salvador, CRIPDES, the struggle now continue ...
... and water resources; besides, 13 million dollars had to be spent for legal costs, financial resources that are so urgently needed in a country with so many social needs.
We are pleased on behalf of the ...
... would fund the Ministry for the Environment and Natural Resources of El Salvador for more than one decade. The legal costs alone are enough to pay for over 2 years of adult literacy classes for 140,000 ...
... El Salvador. During this time the government has spent more than US$13 million in legal costs in a suit where the company attempts to obtain more than US$300 million in compensation for not been allowed ...