When it Comes to Mining, the Canadian Government has a Closed Door Policy, Even to Canadian Citizens
On Wednesday June 13, the National Roundtable against Metallic Mining (the Mesa) held a rally in ...
U.S. and Canadian Press Coverage:
Reuters Canada: El Salvador Says Panel Rejects Complaint from Canadian Miner
Reuters: Canadian Miners Complaint Can Proceed Under El Salvador Law
CNBC: BRIEF-Pac ...
Investor Rights Strip Communities of their Basic National Sovereignty
On the day of the expected Pacific Rim decision, the National Roundtable against Metallic Mining organized a press conference with ...
Is the Commerce Group Case Really Over?
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As the Salvadoran anti-mining movement and its allies across the globe anxiously await a ruling from the International Centre for Investment ...
Fixing Free Trade Agreements:
Putting People and the Planet over Corporate Profit
Today's trade rules are not designed first and foremost to protect workers, the environment or public health. They ...
Pac Rim LLC vs. Government of El Salvador Arbitration Details (ICSID Case No. ARB/09/12)
The mining company Pac Rim LLC is claiming investor rights violations by the Government of El Salvador and demanding ...
... legitimacy of the charges.
A group of 17 U.S. members of Congress is the latest to call for their release and a closer look at the steps the government is taking to renew a defunct mining sector.
The ...
... anniversary of the historic mining prohibition, approved unanimously by the Legislative Assembly in 2017, there are signs that the government of President Nayib Bukele is creating conditions to overturn ...
Jacobin
Owen Schalk
Following its failed crypto scheme, authoritarian president Nayib Bukele’s cash-strapped government is making moves to reverse El Salvador’s metal mining ban. Its reintroduction ...
The Guardian Nina Lakhani
Activists worry the arrests are a move by the cash-strapped government to open the country to now banned metals mining Five prominent environmental defenders who played a crucial ...