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21. In Mining-Affected Communities, Water Is Becoming More Precious Than Gold: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... all open-pit mining in 2010. Mining is also outlawed in high-altitude wetlands vitally important to water supplies in Colombia. And at least half a dozen provinces in Argentina have passed bans on industrial-scale ...; Created on 26 June 2017
22. Dirty Metals: Mining, Communities and the Environment: (General Environment Backrounders); Earthworks and Oxfam America Mining has harmful effects on communities and their surrounding environment. Open-pit mines cause environmental destruction by deforestation and leaching harmful chemicals ...; Created on 23 April 2016
23. Save Our Water, End Investor Rights: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... of the world. Costa Rica, which has a ban on open-pit metal mining, is facing a similar lawsuit by Calgary-based Infinito Gold, which is suing the government for $94 million. Cortez and Gálvez are calling ...; Created on 18 May 2015
24. New Study Shows Dangers of Trade Agreements that Help Corporations Sue Govenments: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... in banning open-pit mining and denying the corporation a license. It is time to stop the expansion of undemocratic agreements and support the governments that are seeking alternatives that respect their ...; Created on 25 March 2014
25. Debunking Eigth Falsehoods by Pacific Rim/OceanaGold in El Salvador: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... tribunal. OceanaGold operates an open-pit gold-copper project in the Philippines that illustrates the costs of mining that Salvadorans do not want to bear. These facts respond to eight “falsehoods” ...; Created on 18 March 2014
26. Australian-Canadian firm OceanaGold bails out Pacific Rim Mining Deal means more punishment for El Salvador: (Water no Gold); ... of residents, and the indigenous community’s right to culture.[1] Residents have complained of “dirty water” downstream from the open-pit mine operation and of dead fish washing up on the shore. “The ...; Created on 21 November 2013
27. Letter to the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... international courts, acting under local Investment Law and the Free Trade Agreements signed by El Salvador, proving once again that only thing the care about is money. 4 - Our rejection of both open-pit ...; Created on 01 October 2013
28. Buzzwords:Responsible Mining: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... eyes of the beholder, or buzzword user. Indeed, OceanaGold's open-pit Didipio gold/copper mine received an official rebuke by the Philippines' Commission on Human Rights in 2011. Citing OceanaGold's forcible ...; Created on 22 September 2013
29. PRELIMINARY REPORT “Gold Mining and the Defense of Water in El Salvador”: (Background and reports ); ... have yet to be fully investigated. Whereas the company has claimed it will leave the water cleaner that it began after its industrial open-pit and underground gold mining operations, we heard that the ...; Created on 24 May 2013
30. Solidarity from 3,000 Miles Away: (2013 International Support for Mining Ban); ... We, too, have witnessed the effects of open-pit mining on our neighbors (Minnesota and Michigan) and now watch that same dark cloud gather on our own horizon. Fugitive dust emissions carried on the wind, ...; Created on 26 July 2012
31. Investor Rights Strip Communities of their Basic National Sovereignty: (FTAs & ISDS); ... a state also facing the threat of open-pit mining, and MCALM founder Marc Rosenthal read a statement (below) highlighting the importance ofunifying resistance to mining companies. Video of the Mesa’s ...; Created on 08 June 2012
32. Salvadoran Mining Fights Spark International Lawsuits: (FTAs & ISDS); ... to start an “open-pit” gold mine, has launched a $77 million claim against El Salvador. Under the terms of CAFTA, such legal disputes are settled by secretive international arbitration panels composed ...; Created on 27 April 2012
33. Mesa Reveals SEA: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... where they have at least banned open-pit mining. In 2010, the United Nations Disaster Assessment and Coordination report classified this country as the most vulnerable in the entire world. That same ...; Created on 31 March 2012

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