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41. 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
42. 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
43. ‘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
44. 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
45. 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
46. 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
47. 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
48. 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
49. 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
50. The trial for Guapinol water defender Jeremías Martínez begins today in Tegucigalpa, Honduras: (Mining and Human Rights); ... introduced himself as follows: “I’m Jeremias & I’m 64 years old. I’m a father and a member of a peasant enterprise of the Unified Peasant Movement of Aguan (MUCA). I have been in jail since December ...; Created on 22 February 2021

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