... a mining license for Escobal.
July 24: Guatemalan NGO CALAS says Escobal’s mining license has been suspended as a result of a court ruling. Tahoe Resources says the permit remains fully effective.
2014 ...
... says that the quality and quantity of the river water will be maintained for domestic and agricultural use by the local population, but what guarantees or insurance has it offered the population to avoid ...
... and the Mines and Geosciences Bureau to continue operating legally during the waiting period. The company says the authority over the Didipio mine rests with the national government, and not local officials. ...
... Article 1105. Minimum Standard of Treatment; and Article 1110. Expropriation and Compensation”, says the file of the Secretariat of Economy.
The lawsuit
The 26-page document, entered on April 5, alleges ...
... Central American Alliance Against Mining, (ACAFREMIN), Pedro Cabezas, says that the threat of mining continues nationally and across borders. “There are risks, (over) in the economic measures the current ...
... this strategy, the company won over the residents of Cerro Blanco, in addition to offering jobs.
Díaz says he is probably the only person in Cerro Blanco who has remained against the mining company' ...
... and their spokespeople, are used precisely to undermine social mobilization in protection of their territory in the face of the extractive whirlwind. Rodrigo Lauracio of DHUMA says, “We believe that the ...
... and to intimidate organized civil society.
Enemies of the State
“In Peru,” says Tomas Medina Mamanchulla, President of the Jatuncachi peasant community in Puno, "there are laws to criminalise popular ...
... of the resource.
“Water is monopolized and contaminated by industries,” Archbishop Escobar Alas says. “There isn’t a law that guarantees the access to water for the poor, the people, the multitudes, ...
... of Waukesha, Wisconsin started operating there.
After the war ended, Cabezas says, the rightwing ARENA government, in collaboration with international mining concerns, drafted an economic plan for ...
... in Latin America, "says Morales.
So facing the mining company - which was already installed in the country and just waiting for permission to start operations - was pressing.
At the same time, these departments ...
... the proper regulation and technology, mining operations and investment should be allowed in El Salvador. Another editiorial from ElSalvador.com, says that for a poor country like El Salvador, investment ...
... ruling and leaving the country, but it would seem that somebody continues to give the company hope. Otherwise they would have packed up their equipment and left, "Luis Parada says.
Parada's attention i ...
... we can’t stand by with our arms crossed,” says Pedro Cabezas, coordinator of the mining and human rights program at the Association for the Development of El Salvador (Cripdes), a rural development organization ...
... 13 million dollars payed to lawyers, the tribunal’s resolution says what we all already knew: that Pacific Rim/Oceana Gold’s demand was frivolous and undeserved.
The arbitration and the Pacific Rim Company ...
... to operate, is an abuse of process,” says Manuel Pérez-Rocha of the Institute for Policy Studies. “That these suits take place far from any transparent, independent court system demonstrates why we are ...
... it had been announced that the award (ruling) could be ready in in late August, he has now says been told that it is likely to be until mid-September and, if favorable, would be a symbolic achievement. ...
... a loss says Bernardo Belloso, president of CRIPDES and a member of La Mesa. For a small country with limited financial resources and critical social and environmental problems, 12.5 million dollars could ...
... a loss says Bernardo Belloso, president of CRIPDES and a member of La Mesa. For a small country with limited financial resources and critical social and environmental problems, 12.5 million dollars could ...
... new laws or rules to ensure financial stability, or to protect the environment or the health of their people,” says Kavaljit Singh, director of Madhyam, New Delhi. “In recent years, a global backlash against ...