Guatemala Solidarity
Kevo Dell
The Peaceful Resistance of La Puya (La Resistencia Pacifica La Puya) published the above announcement regarding the encroachment of members of the National Police into ...
... project.”
What happens now?
Prensa Libre explains (in an article about the start of a preparatory process for a consultation with the community on the El Escobal mine): “Regarding the Progreso VII ...
... suffocating conditions, residents are concerned about potential impacts on their health, given the close proximity of their homes to the mine.
Further questions were raised about the conflict that Pan ...
SPRING
Samantha Ponting
“I was born and lived more than half my life in Lepanto, the location of the Lepanto Consolidated mine,” said Chandu Claver, an Indigenous land defender, in a recorded presentation ...
CNCA
On March 2, 2021, the Federal Court of Canada will hear arguments in a lawsuit that seeks information about the Canadian government’s response to a human rights case concerning a Canadian-owned ...
... improperly withheld information about the government’s support for Goldcorp. This comes after multiple accusations of human rights abuses directed against the Vancouver-based company, stretching back years. ...
... about the mine’s potential ecological damage. In their attempts to defend their territories, local leaders have been surveilled, threatened, injured and imprisoned, and some, like Morazán, have been killed. ...
Guatemala Network Solidarity
Kevo Dell
In a series of tweets, in Spanish, The Extractive Industries Observatory (El Observatorio de Industrias Extractivas – OIE) has introduced a thread about the Cerro ...
... interests in South America include the mining of coal in Colombia and new international actions about this; high levels of conflict at Glencore operations; repression, human rights violations and children ...
... public about its mine in Didipio in Central Luzon.
The Philippine government said it would renew the company’s right to mine in Didipio last December. OceanaGold said that proved it was “a responsible ...
MONGABAY
Leilani Chavez
President Rodrigo Duterte has lifted a ban on issuing licenses for new mining operations in the Philippines, marking an about-face from a previous anti-mining stance that saw ...
... Pacific Rim gold mine. Their account is rife with valuable detail about the mobilizations, negotiations, alliance building, international campaigns, and legal maneuvers that stopped the Pacific Rim mining ...
... are the latest in a series of environmental troubles to surface about the mining operation.
Since last summer, DHEC has fined the gold-digging operation nearly $128,000 for violating environmental ...
... first-hand about abuses by the same mining company, OceanaGold, in his province.
Against extraordinary opposition, these communities convinced their government in 2017 to become the first in the world ...
... Saved A Country from Corporate Greed."
TRANSCRIPT:
Marco Werman: This is a story about gold and water and activism. El Salvador is dangerously close to running out of clean water. Its rivers have ...
... Group on Arbitrary Detentions.
· That the Penitentiary Institute immediately take all necessary preventive health measures to safeguard the lives of the defenders and inform the families about their ...
... the Dunedin City Council said this week it was replacing several kilometres of old pipes in the area at a cost of about $6million, council Three Waters group manager Tom Dyer included OceanaGold’s Macraes ...
CNCA
Today the Federal Court of Canada hears a case alleging that the Canadian government is improperly withholding information about its diplomatic interventions on behalf of a Canadian company accused ...
... the Próspera Court, who are then appointed by the Honduran Judiciary Council, but as of 2020 there is no information available about the judges who will serve on the Próspera Court.
The PAC is a dispute ...
... on its website.
"We aim to respect, honour, protect and support biodiversity and the natural environments."
Now, however, questions are beginning to surface about the Haile Gold Mine's commitment to ...