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21. Scientists, fishers say new mining deals to cause more damage than good: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... including scientists and fishers, have debunked President Rodrigo Duterte’s justification for the lifting of the nine-year ban on new mining contracts. The Duterte administration has decided to end ...; Created on 24 May 2021
22. PBI-Guatemala accompanies the Peaceful Resistance of La Puya as court ruling gives mining company access to the site: (La Puya International Support Letter); ... Kappes, Cassiday & Associates, but retained an economic interest in the mine (including quarterly royalty payments on the gold production from the mine). On May 23, 2014, after two years of peaceful ...; Created on 22 May 2021
23. Community and environmental concerns not “pertinent” to Pan American Silver’s business: (Mining and Human Rights); ... Silver offloaded this project in 2012 after operating the mine for seventeen years, saying it trusted the responsibility of the incoming company to take care of workers and communities. But the new owners ...; Created on 17 May 2021
24. Why Canada is at the centre of global mining atrocities: (Mining and Human Rights); ... Consolidated Mining Corporation has worked closely with the Canadian company Ivanhoe Mines Ltd. over the past 20 years— and the environmental impact of their operations have been devastating. “Abra ...; Created on 12 May 2021
25. Pan American Silver Pressured to Shut Down Community Interference in Guatemala: (Mining and Human Rights); ... four years. The consultation process failed to budge from 2018 to 2020 due to illegalities and discrimination against the Xinka until October 2020, when the government finally agreed to accept the Xinka’s ...; Created on 12 May 2021
26. Canada’s Mining Industry Is Spreading Havoc Around the World — With Justin Trudeau’s Support: (Mining and Human Rights); ... improperly withheld information about the government’s support for Goldcorp. This comes after multiple accusations of human rights abuses directed against the Vancouver-based company, stretching back years. ...; Created on 07 May 2021
27. Environmental activists are being killed in Honduras over their opposition to mining: (Regional News); ... was declared a national park. The next year, congress reduced the park’s no-development zone to accommodate the mine’s development, following a permit process mired by irregularities. Inversiones Los ...; Created on 06 May 2021
28. Reactivation of Cerro Blanco Mining Project: (Mining and Human Rights); ... Their intention is to create an information platform with different levels of disaggregated data. The Cerro Blanco mining project, located in Jutiapa and with almost ten years of no mining activity, ...; Created on 06 May 2021
29. Philippines' Duterte lifts ban on new mining deals: (OceanaGold Philippines); Yahoo Finance Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte officially lifted a nine-year ban on new mining projects Thursday, in a controversial move aimed at boosting state revenue and spurring investment in ...; Created on 05 May 2021
30. Gov’t finalizing terms for OceanaGold’s FTAA renewal: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... than a year since the company’s request for FTAA renewal was forwarded to the Office of the President. In December last year, the government finally re-started the negotiations on OceanaGold’s FTAA renewal, ...; Created on 05 May 2021
31. A New Environmentalist Playbook An improbable victory in El Salvador offers lessons for grassroots activists worldwide: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... to clear rain forest lands. A 2020 Greenpeace report on Indonesia found that only four companies were convicted of deforestation crimes during the previous five years, a period in which rain forests covering ...; Created on 23 April 2021
32. Swiss mining transnational Glencore in the Andes: (General mining reports ); ... GDP, 95% of Peruvian GDP and two-thirds of Colombia’s GDP for that year. The company is seeking to jump on the bandwagon of the energy transition: limiting coal extraction and focusing on transition minerals ...; Created on 22 April 2021
33. Australian-Canadian mining company OceanaGold misleads public on Filipino mine: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... mine include the violent dispersal of protesters in 2009 and 2020. The UN High Commission for Human Rights is concerned. It said that last year around 100 police forcibly dispersed some 30 indigenous and ...; Created on 22 April 2021
34. ‘Complete turnaround’: Philippines’ Duterte lifts ban on new mining permits: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... The mining sector was the deadliest in the world for environmental and land defenders in 2019, according to Global Witness; the Philippines has the most mining-related killings that year, and activists ...; Created on 15 April 2021
35. El Salvador’s Water Defenders and the Fight Against Toxic Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... the almost-seven-year-long Pac Rim lawsuit against El Salvador at the ICSID. Pac Rim sued the Salvadoran government for not issuing them a mining permit. It took the ICSID six years and 10 months—and cost ...; Created on 11 April 2021
36. What Salvadoran Activists Can Teach Us About Building Coalitions: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... in the world to ban mining to save its precious rivers. Their battle cries: “Water, not gold” and “Water for life.” In the process of their 13-year fight, these water defenders organized a national coalition ...; Created on 05 April 2021
37. Families complain about big SC gold mine, citing danger and community disruption: (OceanaGold); ... dealing with loud noises from the mine that keep people up at night, Estridge said. “We’re on land that has been owned by our family for over 100 years in this area, and we were here first,’’ she said, ...; Created on 02 April 2021
38. Gold mine expansion could produce $2.5 billion. But environmental problems linger: (OceanaGold); ... involving the Haile Gold Mine that had been announced by DHEC in the past year. The agency said in September it had fined the mine $11,200 after finding excessive water releases of thallium, a toxic ...; Created on 30 March 2021
39. An unlikely eco-alliance in postwar El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... case. It took seven years from beginning to end. And even when it ended with a victory for El Salvador, there was always the threat that Pacific Rim and its owner of OceanaGold were going to seek annulment ...; Created on 22 March 2021
40. Parliamentary Petition Calls on Canada to Act on Human Rights Abuses in the Philippines: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... who have peacefully opposed the mine for years, were falsely accused of sedition, making them targets for extrajudicial killings,” said Catherine Coumans of MiningWatch Canada. “In 2020, police used violent ...; Created on 25 February 2021

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