Pamela Constable
Calling gold mining a scourge on the environment of El Salvador, a group of protesters rallied Monday outside the World Bank in the District, where a tribunal is discussing the case ...
... Not much wealth stayed in the developing Salvadoran economy, and most of the easily accessible minerals were extracted.
The dusty tunnel miners in rural El Salvador seem far removed from the ICSID lawsuit ...
... such as Pacific Rim/OceanaGold have sought to plunder the wealth of our people and maintain a lawsuit against the Salvadoran government for not allowing the pollution of our water, our land and our air," ...
... lack of consideration by a corporation with large quantities of wealth that think only on enriching itself at the detriment of the health of the inhabitants.
Given the conditions expressed obove, the ...
... the country and therefore reiterated its commitment not to grant exploitation licenses.
"The threat of the metal extraction is a threat to life. Everyone says that El Salvador has a wealth underground, ...
... seen the same pattern of violence and abuse in Cambodia, Brazil and many other countries where the rule of law is weak and the prize of oil, gas or mineral wealth intoxicating. Whilst impunity reigns and ...
... wealth with high ability to develop sustainably without all extractive industries that threaten the lives of its population. Therefore we demand that our governments : a) Create and implement development ...
... driven by efforts to ensure the country’s lands never serve the subsistence needs of their poor communities. In December 1931, a U.S. military attaché wrote “that roughly 90 percent of the wealth of the ...
... impacts of acid mine drainage in the rust-colored water of the San Sebastian river. We heard from local residents that instead of generating wealth for communities, large-scale mining leaves behind poverty ...
... theologian Atle Sommerfeldt teaches. It may generate wealth for a few, or, create responsible work for many while still protecting the earth.
We urge you to do the latter.
More than a hundred years ...
... social, cultural, and economic integrity of northern communities. As has too often been the case, these outside corporate interests have offered empty promises of employment and half-truths of wealth ...
... dangers of mining, but that all the developed nations depended on mining to come to wealth. He also said that in life there is “your truth, my truth and the real truth.” His solution for the mining issue ...
... for wealth over the lives of individuals and peoples.”
This month, the case is set to be back in court, and all eyes are on Guapinol. A judge will decide whether the men should be released to face their ...
... the 223 years since. In the 1800s we created 46 Garífuna communities, mostly locating ourselves in the country’s northern coastal area, where we maintain our cultural wealth. For the past 20 years, the ...