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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, ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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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 ...
... 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 ...
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, ...
... 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. ...
... 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 ...
... 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. ...
... 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 ...
... 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, ...
... 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. ...
... 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). ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...