Report by IBON International
"Towards curbing OceanaGold’s dirty operations in El Salvador and the Philippines, efforts of people’s organisations, communities, environmental advocates as well as international ...
... in 6 months. If I don't see any in the area you destroyed, consider your permit revoked."
These are bold and important words. The Philippines hosts dozens of major mining companies, many of them operating ...
... the National Roundtable Against Metallic Mining.
El Salvador’s ban has also been inspiring organizations and commentators in Haiti and the Philippines, who believe that wisdom could be gained from ...
... in the Philippines, before a parliamentary committee where they pleaded for relief from the abuses they were suffering as the result of the operations of Canadian mining company TVI Pacific. That hearing ...
... the 80s, brought Governor Carlos Padilla from Nueva Vizcaya in the Philippines to testify before a legislative committee on the impacts of OceanaGold’s Didipio Mine there. Two Filipino community members ...
... rob this country of its future.
It was the most amazing week in the 12-year history of our struggle. And we owe much of the magic to the governor of a province called Nueva Vizcaya in the Philippines, ...
... metals mining. As part of this effort, the Catholic Church heightened its visible opposition to mining. Civil society opponents to mining even brought a governor from the Philippines to El Salvador to ...
... Times, the Washington Post, CBC, Reuters, the New York Times, the BBC, the London Review of Books, CounterPunch and Upside Down World – not forgetting Xinhuanet in China and Kalikasan in the Philippines, Le ...
... heard from a delegation from the Philippines, home to OceanaGold’s gold and copper Dipidio mine, located some 167 miles north of Manila in the provinces of Nueva Vizcaya and Quirino. For years, the same ...
... vote to ban mining.
But the push for a mining prohibition remained strong. To support the anti-mining coalition, Carlos Padilla, Governor of Nueva Vizcaya in the Philippines, visited El Salvador to share ...
... around Latin America. The International Federation of Trade Unions, and groups from the U.S., Canada, Australia and the Philippines also threw their support behind El Salvador. This is the long-running ...