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21. Open letter to Oceana Gold: (Open Letter OceanaGold); ... in the area where your company was conducting its operations. Over these past seven years, we have actively supported Salvadorans and their government in their fight to protect the fragile Lempa watershed, ...; Created on 30 November 2017
22. How Local, Grassroots Organizing Drove El Salvador’s Mining Ban: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... imposed a temporary nationwide mining ban in 2008. The move scuttled the ambitions of the Canadian firm Pacific Rim, which had hoped to mine gold in the watershed of the Lempa River, El Salvador’s main ...; Created on 26 June 2017
23. Historic Wins for Democracy and Rights in El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... of Mexico and Central America, which has enriched foreign corporations and domestic elites for hundreds of years. The gold veins run through the north of El Salvador, right through the Lempa River watershed, ...; Created on 26 June 2017
24. El Salvador – When The Seeds Of Resistance Bloom: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... In 2004, after two years of searching for gold in El Salvador, the Pacific Rim Mining Corporation requested permits to begin mining close to the Lempa River. After several years of negotiations, political ...; Created on 23 June 2017
25. All Endorsers: (Open Letter OceanaGold); ... Económico y Social del Bajo Lempa, ACUDESBAL Asociacion Para el Desarrollo de El Salvador, CRIPDES Asociacion Para el Desarrollo Social de Santa Marta, ADES Asociación Nueva Vida Pro-Niñez y Juventud ...; Created on 28 December 2016
26. Solidarity rally in Toronto as decision released in OceanaGold v. El Salvador case: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... Salvador has one major watershed, the Lempa River, which supplies water for over half the country's population. The proposed mine would threaten this watershed through both use of water and contamination. ...; Created on 10 November 2016
27. El Salvador Lessons for the TPP Fight: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... What they wanted was to extract the rich veins of gold buried near the Lempa River, the water source for more than half of El Salvador’s 6.2 million people. Instead, local farmers and others came together ...; Created on 10 November 2016
28. Bishop Rauda: Mining is not a question of right or left, it is a question of life or death!: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... with her community they proved that they were right. "Around 1981, we crossed the Lempa River. We arrived in Honduras. We were in La Virtud and then in Mesa Grande. We lived six years out of the country, ...; Created on 10 November 2016
29. ICSID decision buoys El Salvador in mining dispute: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... that the gold mine could pollute the Río Lempa, the country’s longest river and a water source for as much as half of the country. Although the right-wing government at the time welcomed Pacific Rim, ...; Created on 10 November 2016
30. Archbishop of El Salvador reinforces the church´s position against mining: (Mining and Human Rights); ... lethal, they will pollute our aquifers. We are already threatened with the Cerro Blanco mine in Guatemala, if it becomes exploited it will contaminate Lake Güija and by extension the Lempa river would ...; Created on 17 September 2016
31. Archbishop of El Salvador reinforces the church´s position against mining: (Mining and Human Rights); ... lethal, they will pollute our aquifers. We are already threatened with the Cerro Blanco mine in Guatemala, if it becomes exploited it will contaminate Lake Güija and by extension the Lempa river would ...; Created on 17 September 2016
32. CAFTA Investor Rights Undermining Democracy and the Environment: Pacific Rim Mining Case: (OceanaGold/Pacific Rim); Public Citizen Pacific Rim Mining Corp. is a Canadian-based firm attempted to establish a gold mine in the River Lempa basin, El Salvador’s largest river. This generated a large debate about the health ...; Created on 30 April 2016
33. Climate Change Risk, Perceptions and Development in El Salvador: (General Environment Backrounders); E. Lisa F. Schipper, October 2006 This paper describes the perceptions of the people of Bajo Lempa of the effects of climate change and strategies that have been taken to adapt to these changes. It explains ...; Created on 23 April 2016
34. Yes to life, no to mining! – Report Back Delegation to El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... of Pacific Rim wants to mine. We meet with the representatives of the environmental movement on a covered terrace that has a view to a reservoir of the Lempa River. Activist Don Alejandro explains to us ...; Created on 03 February 2016
35. In the Keystone Suit, It’s Big Oil vs. Democracy: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... poison the Lempa River, the country’s primary source of drinking water, Pacific Rim claimed that the government was discriminating against it and was obliged under the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) ...; Created on 02 February 2016
36. The lawsuit that could put El Salvador in check: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... in such a small country as El Salvador (21.000 square meters), with big water scarcity, that essentially relies on the main river, the Lempa, which crosses the whole Salvadoran territory and that would ...; Created on 30 September 2015
37. Communities Oppose Mining Project: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... necessities. Additionally, locals explain that one of the main water resources that would affected by the contamination is the Titihuapa River, a tributary of the Lempa River. According to information ...; Created on 30 September 2015
38. Save Our Water, End Investor Rights: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... Lempa River watershed for their drinking water, livelihoods and other basic needs. A movement to protect the Lempa River watershed emerged out of the struggle against the mining project and evolved into ...; Created on 18 May 2015
39. Nueva Trinidad: 3rd Municipality in El Salvador to Declare Itself a “Mining Free Territory”: (Territories Free of Mining); ... This is a concern for local residents and civil society as it threatens the water quality of the Lempa River and Sumpul River, both which provide access to clean water for the Salvadoran population. The ...; Created on 18 April 2015
40. When Corporations Sue Governments: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... of then-President Antonio Saca that its work would be eco-friendly and would generate jobs. But with 90 percent of the country’s surface water contaminated, and fearing damage to the Lempa River — an essential ...; Created on 03 December 2014

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