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21. Legal Defense: Honduran Courts Rule to Sustain Political Persecution in Guapinol Case
(Regional News)
ConexiHon Legal Defense: Honduran Courts Rule to Sustain Political Persecution in Guapinol Case, August 17, 2020 Late last week, defense lawyers for the more than 20 environmental defenders from Tocoa, ...
Created on 18 August 2020
22. Environmentalists commemorate the 11th anniversary of the murder of Marcelo Rivera
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... Metallic Mining, mentioned other demands from environmentalists to government authorities: “the technical closing of abandoned mines, the closing of artisanal mining operations that are currently operating ...
Created on 15 July 2020
23. Lack of a Water Law prolongs the historical crisis in the country
(Regional News)
... transferred this discussion to a technical commission; that is to say, they limited the social control of the organizations”, Olivia pointed out. Regarding the legislation on water, Luis González, a member ...
Created on 17 June 2020
24. Guatemalan Water Protectors Persist, Despite Mining Company Threats
(Regional News)
...  This is not the case with the Rio Blanco mine. But such technicalities are hard to rely on when disregard for the rules is a feature of the international arbitration system. George Kahale III, the ...
Created on 03 May 2020
25. Ostúa River contaminated with lead and arsenic from Cerro Blanco mine
(Cerro Blanco)
... Blanco mine was due to technical failures caused by flooding of thermal waters the tunnel. This would indicate that the geographic area is connected and not an independent micro basin as the results of ...
Created on 21 April 2020
26. International report finds that the Honduran government violates the rights of Tocoa's environmental defender
(Regional News)
  Tegucigalpa, February 26, 2020 – Preliminary conclusions of a report commissioned by the Central American Alliance against Mining (ACAFREMIN) - presented at the Peoples for Water meeting in Tegucigalpa, ...
Created on 20 April 2020
27. Water, transparency and mining concerns in the Philippines
(OceanaGold Philippines)
... mine in Barangay Didipio in Kasibu, Province of Nueva Vizcaya. A Financial or Technical Assistance Agreement (FTAA) was awarded to OGPI in 1994, but the company only started its full operations in 2011. ...
Created on 08 March 2020
28. Social Organizations demand compliance with the Prohibition of Metal Mining
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... Yet, the technical and legal instruments for its thorough implementation are still lacking, Calles explained.  “We regret that proper mine closures are not being carried out. We as ACAFREMIN have contributed ...
Created on 26 December 2019
29. ATM Statement re OGPI FTAA renewal
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... tragically as an attempt of DENR to circumvent the already vague and anti-poor Mining Act of 1995. The DENR has made a mistake in implementing the minimum technical requirements for an FTAA renewal.  ...
Created on 26 September 2019
30. National Roundtable against Metal Mining demands president Nayib Bukele to order the implementation of the Metal Mining Ban
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... and ensure the appropriate technical closures of the mines," said La Mesa in a statement. They indicated that even though the Law was approved in March 2017, the provisions in the legislation have not ...
Created on 16 September 2019
31. The long overdue breakup: Nueva Vizcaya and Oceanagold
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... desperately wants out. The barricade was set up July 2, following the expiration of Oceanagold’s Financial or Technical Assistance Agreement (FTAA), a license needed for a mining company to operate, ...
Created on 16 September 2019
32. Oceanagold’s wealth is misery for Kasibu farmers
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... Not for long, Climax Arimco Mining Corporation was awarded the first financial and technical assistance agreement (FTAA) under the Mining Act of 1995, which allows 100-percent ownership of a foreign company. ...
Created on 16 September 2019
33. Save Nueva Vizcaya Movement Launched
(OceanaGold Philippines)
... Vizcaya. HR No. 302 seeks an onsite investigation in aid of legislation on the anomalies and violations surrounding Oceanagold’s renewal application of its Financial or Technical Assistance Agreement (FTAA). ...
Created on 16 September 2019
34. Report: OceanaGold in the Philippines
(Background and reports )
... February 14, 2017 by then-Philippine Secretary of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), Gina Lopez. The agreement that allowed OceanaGold to start mining is a 25-year Financial and Technical Assistance ...
Created on 05 September 2019
35. Central American antimining activists gather in El Salvador to discuss joint strategies for action
(Media Releases)
... of the impacts of extractive industries in the CA4 region; Deepening the knowledge on the topic of technical closure of mines, which has been identified in the region as a priority for environmental ...
Created on 05 May 2019
36. Uncertainty in communities of Asuncion Mita due to the imminent reopening of the Cerro Blanco mine in Guatemala
(Cerro Blanco)
... irreversible environmental damage to their limited water resources.  ASUNCIÓN MITA, Guatemala. Although everything indicates that Canadian Bluestone Resources consortium has oiled up its powerful technical ...
Created on 03 May 2019
37. From Mining to Water: 25 years of Community Solidarity and Organizing
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... mining ban passed, El Salvador’s conservative ARENA party proposed their own water law, with the technical guidance of El Salvador’s National Association of Private Companies (ANEP). The regulatory entity ...
Created on 24 August 2018
38. Church in El Salvador backs law declaring clean, affordable water as a human right
(Water Crisis El Salvador)
... but failed to pass such a comprehensive law. Instead there are many contradictory and hypertechnical laws, with loopholes that allow the abuse and misuse of water.   “It’s not possible that we ...
Created on 08 May 2018
39. How El Salvador Won on Mining
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... and ordered it to pay $8 million to the Salvadoran government to cover its legal costs. The ruling, says Cabezas, “was a great surprise for all of us. It was over a technicality—the government put up ...
Created on 07 May 2018
40. Anti mining organizations ask for the approval of the General Water Law
(Sample Data-Articles)
... the water.  Also, we are concerned that Deputy Johnny Wright, of the ARENA party, has stated that the proposal is eminently technical, implying that the others are not." said Baños.   The water proposal ...
Created on 21 July 2017
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