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1. Research reveals that right wing parties collaborate with mining companies in the department of Cabanas.
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... violate the rights of the inhabitants of the department of Cabañas. Researcher Jennifer Moore stressed that mining companies create foundations to disguise their intentions, but basically are just looking ...
Created on 07 March 2016
2. El Salvador’s Historic Metal Mining Ban Is in Danger
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... department. Pacific Rim had been maneuvering for years to receive exploitation approval from the central government as local communities organized resistance to the project. Four anti-mining activists ...
Created on 06 April 2023
3. Public statement from social movement organizations on the detention of members of the Santa Marta community and ADES in El Salvador
(Media Releases)
... in the municipality of Victoria, department of Cabañas. In a simultaneous operation, carried out on the same day and time, in the municipality of Guacotecti, Cabañas, state agents also detained Teodoro ...
Created on 13 January 2023
4. The Cerro Blanco mine and the right to consultation
(Cerro Blanco)
... with the presence of mining projects that would affect the natural resources in their territory, and the answer of the people was a resounding no.     Asuncion Mita is the capital of the eastern department ...
Created on 22 September 2022
5. PRESS RELEASE: The municipal consultation on Cerro Blanco mine is valid and legitimate
(Cerro Blanco)
... of residents in Asunción Mita, department of Jutiapa, Guatemala, held this Sunday, September 18, 2022. The local communities expressed by vote that they did not agree with the installation and operation ...
Created on 21 September 2022
6. Public statement of the Local Governments of Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador, members of the Lempa River Trinational Border Association, regarding the “Cerro Blanco” mining project, developed by the ...
(Cerro Blanco)
... Mita, Department of Jutiapa, Republic of Guatemala, to issue the following public statement before the national and international public opinion:   CONSIDERING 1. That the Lempa River Trinational ...
Created on 12 June 2022
7. MIRIAN MIRANDA: There is a genocidal plan against the Garífuna people
(Regional News)
... we said: women have to speak and take the floor, but we also have to give ourselves the opportunity to change this country, to build alternatives. Representatives from 16 of the 18 departments in Honduras ...
Created on 25 December 2021
8. Mining is not ‘recovery’
(OceanaGold Philippines)
Inquirer Efenita Taqueban and Gideon Lasco In the name of “recovery” from the pandemic, the Philippine government has opened up mining opportunities in the country, with the President recently lifting ...
Created on 02 June 2021
9. Scientists, fishers say new mining deals to cause more damage than good
(OceanaGold Philippines)
... Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) held consultative meetings for the implementing rules and regulations of Executive Order (EO) No. 130, which lifts the mining ban imposed during the ...
Created on 24 May 2021
10. To the General Public, The Peaceful Resistance of La Puya states
(La Puya International Support Letter)
... and in the finca, Sobrana, in Agua Caliente, San Antonio la Paz, in the Department of El Progreso, leading to the immobilisation of: property (in project area), sacks of material extract, tools, among ...
Created on 23 May 2021
11. Swiss mining transnational Glencore in the Andes
(General mining reports )
... during the pandemic. In Colombia, Glencore also controls the business group Prodeco, which owns coal mines and associated infrastructure in the Cesar and Magdalena departments. Prodeco has five mining ...
Created on 22 April 2021
12. ‘Complete turnaround’: Philippines’ Duterte lifts ban on new mining permits
(OceanaGold Philippines)
... products and quarry resources from 2% to 4%.” The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) and the Department of Finance are expected to “formulate the terms and conditions in the new mineral ...
Created on 15 April 2021
13. El Salvador’s Water Defenders and the Fight Against Toxic Mining
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... in suits” drilling for gold. In the early 2000s, Pacific Rim Mining Corporation—acquired by OceanaGold in 2013—started drilling exploration wells in Cabañas Department, about 40 miles northeast of San ...
Created on 11 April 2021
14. Families complain about big SC gold mine, citing danger and community disruption
(OceanaGold)
... I know the disciplines this company practices.’’ Officials with the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers saidthey’ll listen to the public before making ...
Created on 02 April 2021
15. Gold mine expansion could produce $2.5 billion. But environmental problems linger
(OceanaGold)
... late 2020 at the site between Columbia and Charlotte, state and federal records show. The 2020 wastewater discharge violations, disclosed this week by the Department of Health and Environmental Control, ...
Created on 30 March 2021
16. Ottawa must disclose how it aided Goldcorp in human rights dispute, Federal Court will hear
(Mining and Human Rights)
... several civil society organizations. It asks the court to order Global Affairs Canada to remove the redactions on 20 pages of documents the department disclosed in response to an access-to-information ...
Created on 02 March 2021
17. OceanaGold (ASX:OGC) fined A$128,500 as environmental concerns at Haile continue
(OceanaGold)
... the last year that the company has run into trouble with the Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) and follows other violations noted in 2018 and 2019 The company is accused of releasing ...
Created on 15 February 2021
18. Gold mine fined $100,000. Toxic air pollution found at big mine near tiny town
(OceanaGold)
... trouble with the Department of Health and Environmental Control. The fine is the largest involving the Haile Gold Mine, and in this case, DHEC said the company released excessive amounts of mercury, ...
Created on 12 February 2021
19. NEW BOOK: The water defenders - how ordinary people saved a country from corporate greed
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... she served as an international economist in the US Treasury Department, in the US Congress, and at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. John Cavanagh is Director of the Washington-based Institute ...
Created on 14 January 2021
20. From dreams of gold to organic agriculture
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
* Angélica Cárcamo / Norma Ramírez  - ARPAS In 2000, the Pacific Rim mining company intended to employ 450 families in the Department of Cabañas, north of El Salvador. Although the mining project was ...
Created on 05 January 2021
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