... case drawn out over seven long years that has already incurred the El Salvador government at least $15 million in legal costs.
The impacts of OceanaGold’s operation in the Philippines that this author ...
... coerce the government into giving it a mine permit. If it would only withdraw its suit, millions of dollars in legal costs would be freed up that could be put to productive use in Cabañas and El Salvador,” ...
... years, piling up legal costs and draining energy from the popular movement to safeguard drinking water, food, and crops.
Meanwhile, the suit exacerbated conflicts in El Salvador. Several activists opposed ...
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Indeed the firm took legal action against the State of El Salvador before the International Court of Arbitration. However two years ago the process was suspended, after the legal costs had risen significantly. ...
... it had a dispute with El Salvador. This can help the tribunal to reconsider the precedent decision, as well as decide to grant El Salvador the arbitration costs amounting to $12.7 million dollars”, Parada ...
... that the mining company's assessments had serious gaps: it lacked the baseline water quality and quantity data required for an accurate examination of watershed impacts; it also failed to consider the costs ...
... legal costs for defending the case.
The case raises though a more important issue, which is how international law – particularly trade and investment law - currently facilitates corporations suing states, ...
... stated a letter addressed to Jim Askew, chairman of OceanaGold, signed by over 35 organizations. “The legal costs and a potentially negative outcome of the suit could deteriorate the government’s already ...
... fight against Oceana Gold/Pacific Rim and their struggle for a better life for all.
The all too aggressive push by corporations to get what they want at all costs—to the environment, to peoples’ rights ...
... some of its investments to Hong Kong and is using a 1993 Hong Kong-Australia trade agreement to sue the Australian government over its plain packaging laws.
For poor countries, just the costs of trying ...