Where Did Commerce Group Get the Money?
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The last anyone had heard was that the Milwaukee based mining company Commerce Group was struggling to come up with the $150,000 to pay for ...
... Prominent Anti-Mining Activists
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... talking about the territories being given to people who have money.
How does the ZEDE project affect the Garífuna people?
In recent years we have been facing such strong pressure. The “Ciudades Modelo”, ...
... committed to digging up the gold dust that lay beneath those forests, rivers, and communities. They began to throw money around to the mayor and host all manner of happy public events to promote the ideals ...
... to post another $10 million in cash for the expansion.
By law, many companies with the potential to hurt the environment must assure money is available for a cleanup one day. Many rely on insurance policies, ...
... weather disasters shouldn’t be lost on anyone.
Fossil fuel and utility firms have long plied state officials with money. In turn, officials failed to regulate utilities, weatherize their grid, or create ...
... 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 ...
The State
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South Carolina regulators have fined a large gold mine $100,000 for breaking environmental rules, marking the third time in the past year the operation north of Camden has run into ...
... that would benefit the local population, those who would have had the opportunity to work and earn a little money, at least".
However, after learning how metal mining affected the environment in other ...
... next generation. If the money goes from the United States to Honduras to invest and continue taking away what the community needs to continue living, people will continue coming to United States. So this ...
... and the judicial system. Solway's corrupt money contributes to the corruption that pervades the repressive and judicial apparatuses of the Izabal and Alta Verapaz region. Given the contempt for the Constitutional ...
... Montana is about money, money, and again money.”
The international arbitration system does not take into consideration the long-term impacts that these mining projects could have on the water, lands, ...
... who end up in Canada have to spend huge amounts of money working with a recruiter to get placement as labourers through temporary foreign worker programs, which are also exploitative.
“I declared myself ...
... of mud were all over the floor and their cabinets and drawers still open. Simongo, suspected that the trespasser/s entered through the ceiling.
“It is very suspicious that the money we saved was still ...
... and the use of slave labour. Yet there are rarely any consequences for companies where they are headquartered and allowed to raise most of their money – namely, in Canada.Successive Canadian governments ...
... through its long battle to have mining prohibited by denouncing and shaming companies that tried to extort obscene amounts of money from the Salvadorian public purse for refusing mining permits.
In a ...
... This money could be used instead to improve education, health and public services systems, and thus foster human development for the people of the region."What we have to do is change the current system ...
... say no to big money.
Organizing the Cinquera Referendum
The process of citizen mobilization and education did not prove easy for the organizers of the Cinquera referendum. Political allegiances run deep ...
... between funders and the communities being funded. And the other, that he espouses, is when “money is not at the centre of the relationship; [in these relationships] there is one overarching struggle with ...
... Salvador, in the commercial exchange of goods with the United States.
"This has only served large corporations and benefited those who have money; that is why we need legislators to votes against metal ...