... unleashed by Pacific Rim Mining in 2009. During this event, dozens of men and women attended to celebrate the legacy of the leaders who led the struggle against mining companies in the country, and paid ...
... Disputes (ICSID), connected to the World Bank (WB), the Salvadoran State beat the lawsuit for 250 million dollars that Canadian based OceanaGold mining(formerly Pacific Rim) claimed for not obtaining the ...
... there was a struggle to make it better. In 2017, the “pulgarcito”, as El Salvador is called, was recognized in every corner of the world for beating a large mining company, Oceana Gold / Pacific Rim.
Everything ...
... when Pacific Rim Mining sued after failing to obtain an environmental permit for a gold project. The local, national and international organizing that took place over the seven years of the arbitration, ...
... Mexicana de Afectadas y Afectados por la Minería (REMA)
Resistencia pacifica La Puya (GUATEMALA)
SERCOBA (EL SALVADOR)
Servicios Juridicos y Sociales SERJUS (GUATEMALA)
Servicios para una educación ...
... their right to their investments through accusing them of illegal mining.
This case in Guatemala threatens to mirror a similar case in neighboring El Salvador.
Canadian mining firm Pacific Rim began ...
... been broadcasting about people’s issues – including the destructive impacts of big mining, as well as the Pacific Rim/OceanaGold ISDS case. Radio Victoria staff have received death threats as a result ...
... gold mining company (first Pacific Rim, then Oceana Gold) that threatened to contaminate the country’s water resources. ADES and Radio Victoria accompanied local communities to protest the proposed El ...
... for the Settlement if Investment Disputes by Pacific Rim/OceanaGold, Commerce Group and Enel Green Power and Monsanto highlight the impunity that characterizes corporations that operate under the shadows ...
Andrés McKinley - UK LAB
On March 29th, 2017, the small country of El Salvador became the first nation in the world to exercise its sovereign right to say “no” to metallic mining after carefully analyzing ...
... September 2013 PacificRim, the company that had filed an Investor State Dispute Settlement case against El Salvador for $300m had been brought out by OceanaGold, an Australian Canadian company whose headquarters ...
PRESS RELEASE
San Salvador, May 31st 2018. Last week the Environment and Climate Change Committee of the Legislative Assembly moved to archive all files and petitions related metallic mining in El ...