Communique: Community organizations fear the return of metal mining El Salvador
San Salvador December 16, 2021 - Only four years have passed since El Salvador banned metal mining in all its forms. ...
... close relationships with large investors in this industry.
Instead of complying with the current law prohibiting metallic mining, the government, in May of this year, joined an international network ...
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Despite of the success of the campaign and the fact that the mining prohibition has been in force for the last four years, La Mesa affirms that there has been no commitment on the part of the Salvadoran ...
... of proven coal reserves and was expected to allow Cerrejón to offset the 3 million tonnes / year drops in production from other pits during 2015-33.
Cerrejón exported 7.31 million tons in January-April, ...
... by 2.2% to 3,925 per dollar, while the General Index S&P / BVL Peru fell 6.9% at 1:12 p.m. In New York. The yield on Peru's 10-year dollar bonds rose 15 points to 2.81% and the price fell 1.2 cents to 99.6 ...
... they reaffirmed their “rejection of the mining project as destructive and a threat to the life of the population and their natural commons.”
Almost seven years earlier to the day, on May 23, 2014, police ...
... to come. What nature worked on and harnessed to develop in millennia will be gone in 25 years (the lifetime of a “Financial and Technical Assistance Agreement” for mining projects in the Philippines). ...
... Last month, President Rodrigo Duterte lifted a nine-year moratorium on new mining agreements to allow in investments and boost government revenues.
But environmental groups said the move was one of the ...
... the Escobal mining license was held on Friday, May 21 of this year in the offices of the Xinka Parliament of Guatemala. The purpose was to identify the entities that will participate as observers and to ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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. ...
... 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 ...
... 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, ...
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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 ...
... 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, ...
... 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 ...