Gloria Silvia Orellana - Diario CoLatino
Manuel Pérez Rocha, fellow from the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), participated in the Regional Meeting of the Central American Alliance Against Mining. ...
... failure, loss of consciousness and death if people are exposed to high amounts, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
OceanaGold said the December cyanide violation resulted ...
... to ban all metals mining to save their rivers.
Today the United States faces a similar reckoning as El Salvador.
The Texas freeze that left millions without water exposed the desperate need to rein ...
... operation had recorded nothing close to the current New Zealand drinking water standard breached in the council water supply, the spokeswoman said.
Additionally, employees who could be exposed to any ...
... there is no difficulty for the mother, father and older children to work and they have no risk that they can be contaminated by the products they are using or be exposed to toxins found in farms. We eliminate ...
... the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant and exposed its technical deficiencies when he was part of the Citizens’ Review Panel. In 2015, he founded the Center for Renewable Energy Systems and Sustainable Technology ...
... essential that this shadowy financial market is exposed to the light of day. Otherwise, affected communities will remain blind to the powerful figures that have profited at their expense.
Among other ...
* Edgardo Ayala - Contrapunto
Despite of a two year mining prohibition, the ghost of mining does not fade away for communities in El Salvador that are exposed to crossborder contamination that may cause ...
... effects of corporate mining activities. Various solidarity and investigative missions have also been held in Didipio in the Philippines, for instance in 2011, 2014 and 2015. These have exposed the implications ...
... by a permanent acid drainage leak, hundreds of tons of exposed rock debris mixed with cyanide and other highly toxic chemicals used in the process of lixiviation and two large metal containers filled more ...
... and the triumph of individualism over the common interest, threaten as never before the sustainability of the life of the world population. In our case, as peasant and indigenous women, we are exposed ...
... has contaminated their main source of water, the San Sebastian River, and at least 300 people who currently work in artisanal mining are exposed daily to heavy metals, and substances like mercury and methane, ...
... has revealed the actions of the mining company violate the arbitration proceedings of the financial body that settles such disputes.
Other data exposed by the then Ambassador Glazer in the diplomatic ...
... was on the other side of the mine. There are people from the communities working in the mine, but they are the ones who get paid less, they take more risks and are exposed to accidents. The women who ...
... this territory violated human rights, and its inhabitants were exposed to contracting diseases from water contaminated with chemicals used in the extraction process, which seep into the ground aided by ...
... will take much of the water from the aquifers and streams on which the local population depends. They will also be affected by the dust from mines. The soil is rich in sulphur, so that when exposed to ...
... Sebastian mine. In 1977, a Milwaukee, Wisconsin-based mining company called Commerce Group closed its operations there. In the years since, bedrock exposed during mining caused acid drainage, which has ...
... that the Attorney General's Office and the National Police open an investigation to identify the intellectual authors the crimes recently exposed, as well as the origin and motivation for these attacks. ...
... international activists who will be exposed first hand to the impacts of mining and the different actors who are opposing mining in El Salvador.
To create direct ties between international participants ...
... or the rock surrounding the ore body.
Sulfides exposed to air and water create acid mine drainage. Exxon could not meet the requirements of the law and withdrew from the controversial Crandon mine project, ...