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21. PRESS RELEASE: Permanent Alert against Metallic Mining in El Salvador
(Media Releases)
... plus interest, owed by Pacific Rim / Oceana Gold, money that is needed to serve the rights of the population in need. VI.- Given this scenario, the MNFM declares a permanent alert against the extractive ...
Created on 04 January 2017
22. PRESS RELEASE: Release the Verdict Now!
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... 2013, Pacific Rim, a company without any real assets except the hope of mining in El Salvador, ran into financial troubles in 2012 after it failed to raise the money needed to continue the costly suit ...
Created on 06 October 2016
23. El Marco jurídico para la privatización del agua en El Salvador
(General Environment Backrounders)
... it only available to those that have the money to pay. This study provides background information on the water situation in El Salvador, gives an analysis of the water reform, and describes reactions to ...
Created on 23 April 2016
24. Commerce Group Mining Corporation required to pay for environmental clean up of the San Sebastian mine.
(Commerce Group)
... to pay exorbitant amounts of money for water and to collect rain water in order to meet their basic needs. And the problems for the community continue to surface: exposure to the heavy metals resulting ...
Created on 02 March 2016
25. In the Keystone Suit, It’s Big Oil vs. Democracy
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... settlement” clause, now ubiquitous in free trade agreements, allows foreign investors to challenge any national laws and regulations that undercut their ability to make money. Worse still, the fate of ...
Created on 02 February 2016
26. A dirty gold fever
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... it is about a lot of money. The Canadian firm explored the gold mine in Cabañas for six years, investing millions of dollars in test drilling. The mine was the most important asset of the company. Pacific ...
Created on 02 February 2016
27. Resistance against the bloodsucker
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... Even if the authorship is not clear, the arbitration tribunal can not easily limit the case purely to economic matters.  More than a callow protest It is about a lot of money. Company representative ...
Created on 03 January 2016
28. Salvadoran Civil Society Confronts World Bank on Pending Lawsuit on Mining
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... and Trade) highlighted the paradox of this situation in which a wealthy company is demanding a considerable amount of money from a country that is lacking resources for its own people; the most critical ...
Created on 27 October 2015
29. 5 reasons to oppose OceanaGold’s lawsuit against El Salvador
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... that corporations can sue countries for heinous amounts of money, which in El Salvador’s case amounts to about 5% their GDP. Cases such as these set a precedent and normalize the perception that corporate ...
Created on 11 July 2015
30. Salvadorans Warn Canadians About World Bank's Kangaroo Cour
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... territory in March. “If the ICSID forces El Salvador to pay the US$301 million, where is that money going to come from? From the already limited education and health budgets in the country?” asked Gálvez ...
Created on 18 May 2015
31. Tens of Thousands Call On OceanaGold to Drop its Suit Against El Salvador as Secret Hearings Begin at World Bank Tribunal
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
(Ottawa) Nearly 150,000 people have already signed an online petition  directed at the Australian-Canadian firm OceanaGold urging it to drop its suit against El Salvador. Secret hearings will begin on ...
Created on 10 September 2014
32. Current political transition crucial for advancing democratic reform and economic, environmental and social development in El Salvador.
(Media Releases)
... sustainability are possible if we ban metal mining on time. The high price of gold feeds the voracious power appetite of large transnational mining corporations, but LETS NOT FORGET that money can not ...
Created on 14 April 2014
33. El Salvador, violence and impunity
(Mining and Human Rights)
... by the Attorney General’s Office, and claiming that his case “falls short because the prosecutor’s didn’t recognise that Saturnino was always sending money to his family and people in the community, including ...
Created on 13 February 2014
34. Mining multinationals exploit Central America
(Water no Gold)
... million lawsuit by Pacific Rim has already cost El Salvador US$7 million in legal fees. As Vidalina pointed out, this is “a lot of money in country that that has so many needs like education and services ...
Created on 03 December 2013
35. Australian-Canadian firm OceanaGold bails out Pacific Rim Mining Deal means more punishment for El Salvador
(Water no Gold)
... to it, I think it is better to pay the money, than to pay the consequences,” Archbishop José Luis Escobar Alas recently stated to a Canadian national radio reporter. Pacific Rim Mining’s track record ...
Created on 21 November 2013
36. A plea to Australia: Put life & dignity before gold & profit
(Water no Gold)
... may well buy the consciences of some – because in the face of poverty it doesn’t take much money to buy division between poor people. But such tactics – which demonstrate no honour - won’t dissuade us.” ...
Created on 10 November 2013
37. Letter to the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... international courts, acting under local Investment Law and the Free Trade Agreements signed by El Salvador, proving once again that only thing the care about is money. 4 - Our rejection of both open-pit ...
Created on 01 October 2013
38. International delegation confronts mining in El Salvador
(2013 Fact Finding Mission)
... of El Salvador to spend over $800,000 in arbitration fees to defend itself. This is public money that has been siphoned away from helping impoverished local residents. Canada-El Salvador Free Trade Agreement ...
Created on 08 July 2013
39. Salvadoran Indigenous leader Shandur Kuátzin Makwilkali
(Mining and Human Rights)
... question of returning indigenous land. "Our philosophy as indigenous peoples is to have our land, as she is our mother", Shandur says. "We need to have our land, to have our fruit, rather than money." ...
Created on 19 November 2012
40. Mining Ambition Impedes Environmental Justice
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... process continues, Pacific Rim can increase the amount of the suit by arguing they are incurring procedural costs.  Also, this forces the Salvadoran Government to pay huge amounts of money to the international ...
Created on 18 July 2012
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