... for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) finally issued its ruling, finding that the company, as Salvadorans have long known, never met El Salvador’s regulatory requirements to obtain a mining permit. ...
... when the dream will end. That's what it felt like for those of us in the struggle against metallic mining, when legislators here finally found the political will to block an industry that threatened to ...
... until the final ruling was released in October 2016.
The Final Showdown
Flash forward seven years, after four community leaders were brutally killed in northern El Salvador, and after countless marches, ...
... long international campaign, the ICSID tribunal finally ruled against the company and ordered it to pay $8 million towards El Salvador’s more than $12million in legal fees. The ruling was hailed as a major ...
... The legislative assembly’s multi-partisan commission on the environment and climate change quickly got to work on the proposed text.
Before their final vote on the bill proposal, members of the commission ...
... mining. The most recent referendum took place on February 26, when more than half of all registered voters in the municipality of Cinquera flocked to polling stations in four communities. The final tally ...
... government to fight back. Finally, in October 2016, the tribunal ruled that the mining firm, owned by OceanaGold, didn't have a case and that it was to pay El Salvador $8 million.
However, the corporate ...