... territories. In this region, where water is the most valuable asset, more than 20 streams have dried up or been diverted. This includes the Bruno Creek, a major tributary of the Ranchería River, on which ...
... drilling. They would become some of the earliest and most dedicated water defenders. They organized trips in 2004 and 2005 to visit mines in Honduras, where they saw the destroyed forests, dying rivers, ...
... their counterparts in Guatemala, Peru, and the Philippines, where mining projects created webs of local corporate leaders who were intertwined with and enriched by the extractive industry. But after the ...
... expansion as substantial.
OceanaGold also would increase areas where the company plans to deposit potentially acid generating rock, while also increasing a mining waste storage site known as a tailings ...
... encouragement from others who’ve won local, national, and global fights to protect their water.
In particular, we’ve spent countless hours with people across El Salvador, where drought has taxed the ...
... spectrum?
Luis Parada: Marcelo Rivera was the first activist that sounded the alarm about the danger of metallic mining in the province of Cabañas, where he was from. And he's the one that started educating ...
... Canadians.
A press conference will follow the tabling of the petition.
Where: Ottawa, Canada (online)
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89569054602?pwd=a1NOc0VLL0NnZlJSbUtReGV5cHB1dz09
Meeting ID: 895 ...
... projects—Pristine Bay and Palmetto Bay—on the Honduran island of Roatán, where she serves as vice-president of the patronato, the community governing council. Her family has been in Crawfish Rock for five ...
... “mercury in the mine was greater than previously estimated,’’ the enforcement order said.
Mercury is sometimes found in the earth in areas where gold mining occurs. When gold is excavated and heated ...
... to extractivism and environmental destruction grows, states and corporations meet that resistance with violence. They can just get away with it more easily in the Global South, where people in Canada, ...
... in the world of corporate power, to have a story where David beats Goliath. And rarer still to have one that reads like a fast-paced thriller. The brave activists whom Robin Broad and John Cavanagh write ...
... areas where OceanaGold operates. Rosario Camma, over-all chieftain of the Bugkalot tribe, said the issuance of CNO was “rigged” in favor of the mining company to expedite the renewal and approval of its ...
... an international arbitration against the host state (in other words, the foreign state where the investor's investment is located) before an international tribunal. This international arbitration can be ...
... on giant screens where they explained how they were going to work," he says with a smiling look.
Since his childhood Carmen or "Carmelo", as his neighbors call him, has been growing beans, rice, and sorghum ...
... Wharekirauponga (WKP), in the Coromandel, where it purchased rights to mine and explore in 2016.
The mining company has already started working on the tunnel on private farmland, even though it hasn’t ...
... kilometres north of Los Filos in Guerrero state, as well as others elsewhere in the country, as industrial mines in Mexico have become targets for extortion by organized crime, often in collusion with ...
Jennifer Avila y Danielle Mackey | Univision
An environmental conflict marked by violence is raging in Guapinol, Honduras, where local inhabitants resist an iron oxide mine in a national park.
Discreetly ...
... tactics to forcibly open mining operations in places where communities have resisted them.
First, they resort to repression. Then, if that fails, they sue governments in international tribunals — which ...
... Lawyer Robert Chan for the defense of natural resources in Palawan. He leads a small team called “para-enforcers” Palawan NGO Network Inc. (PNNI) where they sharpen and strengthen conservation laws often ...
... from the Black indigenous Garifuna community have triggered widespread criticism.
Guapinol is a semi-rural neighbourhood in the fertile, mineral-rich Bajo Agua region, where for years subsistence farmers ...