... 69 in favor, none against, and no abstentions. Fifteen of the country’s 84 lawmakers did not show up for the vote.
The result “makes tiny El Salvador the unlikely hero in a global movement to put the ...
... to extraction to processing.
Despite last minute lobbying by one of the country’s largest mining interests, all 70 present members of the assembly voted in favor of the ban. It now heads to President ...
... of El Salvador and support for the law.
By voting in favor of the mining ban, these lawmakers in El Salvador have chosen water over gold, and people and the environment over corporate profits. And they ...
... Commission on Environment and Climate Change to give a green light to the vote on a law prohibiting mining.
A World Bank (WB) arbitration body ruled in October 2016 in favor of El Salvador and against ...
... ruled in October 2016 in favor of El Salvador and against the Canadian miner Pacific Rim, now owned by the Australian Oceana Gold, which claimed compensation from the Salvadoran government for 250 million ...
... as a “kangaroo court” favoring the interests of corporations over states and Indigenous communities and environmental groups.
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... thank goodness that the ICSID said it was clear that El Salvador was right (ruling in favor of the state)," he said.
This February 14 is the deadline for the transnational mining company Oceana Gold, ...
... operations in the country.
The organized community groups that work in favor of human, environmental, religious, and youth rights that make up La Mesa were present at the Legislative Assembly. Reacting ...
... and Climate Change Commission in the Legislative Assembly, reiterated the commitment to legislate in favor of human life and considered that it was urgent to finally initiate the study of the new legal ...