... a process involving large amounts of water that then becomes toxic waste. This waste is deposited in tailings dams, which are supposed to prevent the cyanide and other toxins from entering the local water ...
... Mesa is deeply concerned that the company will use the same tactics El Salvador.
The El Dorado mine will use significant amounts of water – this is is a gross injustice given that in rural areas of El ...
... highly organized opposition from communities, civil society and church organizations that have repeatedly raised concerns over the use of excessive amounts of water, environmental degradation, public health ...
... civil society and church organizations that have repeatedly raised concerns over the use of excessive amounts of water, environmental degradation, public health impacts, as well as the social division ...
... of $415 million in “lost potential profit.” This amounts to two thirds of El Salvador’s annual education budget.
The purpose of the ICSID is to administer justice when a corporation alleges unfair treatment ...
... nation is held by about ½ of 1 percent of the population,” a social order geared towards exporting massive amounts of coffee, for which purpose the state had demolished communal landholdings, driving poor ...
... amounts of water and environmental contamination and the public health impacts of mining, as well as the social division that these projects cause. These concerns have been reinforced by United Nations’ ...
... country in the entire world. The cyanide-leach mining process proposed by industrial mining companies in El Salvador uses exorbitant amounts of water and experts have called the gold mining industry one ...
... 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 ...
... million USD would have provided one year worth of adult literacy classes for 140,000 people[4].
Those five million USD could have doubled the amounts of scholarships available to middle school students[5]. ...