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1. Gold mine fined $100,000. Toxic air pollution found at big mine near tiny town
(OceanaGold)
... mine. Before mining began near the town of Kershaw more than four years ago, Haile officials assured South Carolina residents they would run a state-of-the-art operation that would adhere to environmental ...
Created on 12 February 2021
2. Another Town in El Salvador Votes No to Mining
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
By Aruna Dutt : IPS News Cabañas, El Salvador, Mar 1 2017 (IPS) - The citizens of Cinquera municipality in Cabañas delivered a resounding vote against mining, on Sunday February 26th, when 98 percent ...
Created on 05 March 2017
3. El Salvador’s Historic Metal Mining Ban Is in Danger
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... and others report hearing testimonies from rural community members that representatives from mining companies are visiting their towns. Locals in the region of Cabañas (including Antonio Pacheca, one of ...
Created on 06 April 2023
4. Is El Salvador preparing to reverse its landmark mining ban?
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... decades speaking out contamination of water sources by mining projects, were arrested in January after mining officials visited their town of Santa Marta. MEXICO CITY — It was considered a major environmental ...
Created on 03 April 2023
5. Central American mayors reject mining exploitation that affects strategic river
(Cerro Blanco)
... Esquipulas, Comotán, Santa Catarina Mita and San Juan Ermita, the mayors and deputy mayors of Sinuapa, Ocotepeque, La Labor in Honduras, and the Salvadoran towns of Candelaria de la Frontera, Citalá, Dulce ...
Created on 12 June 2022
6. Central American mayors reject mining exploitation that affects strategic river
(Cerro Blanco)
... Esquipulas, Comotán, Santa Catarina Mita and San Juan Ermita, the mayors and deputy mayors of Sinuapa, Ocotepeque, La Labor in Honduras, and the Salvadoran towns of Candelaria de la Frontera, Citalá, Dulce ...
Created on 12 June 2022
7. El Salvador: Metallic Mining Threatens Again
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... for the nearby town of El Estor daily. According to the residents of Valle de Syria in Honduras, the San Martín mine, in nine years of operations, dried up 19 of the 23 original rivers in the area. And ...
Created on 14 December 2021
8. Scientists, fishers say new mining deals to cause more damage than good
(OceanaGold Philippines)
... the people of Dipidio in Kasibu town were blaming the activities of the foreign miner for the massive flooding around the Cagayan Valley, as well as for the depletion and pollution of their water sources. ...
Created on 24 May 2021
9. A New Environmentalist Playbook An improbable victory in El Salvador offers lessons for grassroots activists worldwide
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... and activist who directed a cultural center in his rural hometown of San Isidro. The authors recount these dramatic setbacks and how the movement responded to them, extracting lessons that might apply ...
Created on 23 April 2021
10. Swiss mining transnational Glencore in the Andes
(General mining reports )
... in the town of Cerro de Pasco where the company Volcán operates – a company controlled by Glencore which extracts zinc, lead, silver and copper, and which has been fined many times for its environmental ...
Created on 22 April 2021
11. El Salvador’s Water Defenders and the Fight Against Toxic Mining
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... in the town of San Isidro, in Cabañas, by going door-to-door to collect donated books. They built a few shelves in their family’s living room and called it the San Isidro Foundation for Culture and the ...
Created on 11 April 2021
12. Families complain about big SC gold mine, citing danger and community disruption
(OceanaGold)
... silver, while creating more than 200 jobs, the company has said. The mine now employs about 400 people, and is credited with pumping economic life into the once poverty-stricken town of Kershaw, just a ...
Created on 02 April 2021
13. Gold mine expansion could produce $2.5 billion. But environmental problems linger
(OceanaGold)
... complete.’’ The Haile Gold Mine, a historic site that reopened under OceanaGold, is about six miles from the town of Kershaw in southern Lancaster County. The company is seeking to expand the site because ...
Created on 30 March 2021
14. An unlikely eco-alliance in postwar El Salvador
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... water defenders. These are not people with a lot of resources. Mining companies offered their towns jobs and money, but they were not interested. Why not? Robin Broad: Beginning with Marcelo, people ...
Created on 22 March 2021
15. A Private Government in Honduras Moves Forward
(Mining and Human Rights)
... Since May 2020, two ZEDEs have been officially launched: the “Honduras Próspera” ZEDE (PZ) on Roatán where Crawfish Rock is located, and the “Ciudad Morazán” ZEDE in the industrial town of Choloma. The ...
Created on 15 February 2021
16. Vizcaya governor asks Rody to end 2 mine operations
(OceanaGold Philippines)
... copper project in Kasibu town, while FCF was also contracted to operate the Runruno gold-molybdenum project in Quezon town, both under a 25-year FTAA. Padilla’s letter also reviews the many environmental ...
Created on 21 January 2021
17. No renewal for Didipio Mines
(OceanaGold Philippines)
... villages particularly between Nagtipunan town of Quirino province and Kasibu town of Nueva Vizcaya province. To support the Bugkalot-llongot tribe, the Sangguniang Bayan (Municipal Council) of Nagtipunan ...
Created on 08 January 2021
18. Vizcaya gov still opposes Didipio
(OceanaGold Philippines)
... government offices. OGPI’s 25-year contract with the Philippine government to develop and exploit the minerals in Didipio, Kasibu town expired June 20 last year. Residents of Didipio, supported by ...
Created on 08 January 2021
19. A Canadian Mining Giant Is Quietly Ramping Up Work in New Zealand. Locals Are Worried
(OceanaGold)
... mining giant is preemptively ramping up its operations in and around protected land on New Zealand’s North Island, local conservationists and residents say. Waihi, a town of nearly 6,000, sits at the ...
Created on 17 December 2020
20. Canadian corporate greed on display in Mexico mining dispute
(Regional News)
... Equinox Gold, failed to uphold its agreement with the nearby community of Carrizalillo, a small town of about 3,000 people. Equinox blames the community for the shutdown, but in reality, the company and ...
Created on 28 November 2020
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