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21. First Pre-Consultation Meeting with the Xinka People on the Escobal Mine: (Mining and Human Rights); ... (MARN), Ministry of Energy and Mines (MEM), Presidential Commission for Dialogue, the University of San Carlos of Guatemala (USAC), members of Community Development Councils (COCODES) and the Municipal ...; Created on 26 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); ... project.” What happens now? Prensa Libre explains (in an article about the start of a preparatory process for a consultation with the community on the El Escobal mine): “Regarding the Progreso VII ...; Created on 22 May 2021
23. Why Canada is at the centre of global mining atrocities: (Mining and Human Rights); ... CSR becomes a tool to garner support for the industry, not prevent harm. She also sees companies use buzz words such as “community engagement” and “environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG).” ...; Created on 12 May 2021
24. Honduras: Supreme Court must correct distorted ruling & free arbitrarily detained Guapinol defenders: (Mining and Human Rights); ... and freedom to participate in public affairs. In other words, the detention is arbitrary because it is a measure designed to prevent the community from defending its resources and rights. 3. Third, the ...; Created on 11 May 2021
25. Environmental activists are being killed in Honduras over their opposition to mining: (Regional News); ... the iron oxide in the 200-hectare concession, community water supplies are polluted, trees have been flattened and landslides and flooding are more frequent. In 2018, Los Pinares began to build an access ...; Created on 06 May 2021
26. A New Environmentalist Playbook An improbable victory in El Salvador offers lessons for grassroots activists worldwide: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... the local community. Prostitutes were sent to local community groups to try to entice the water defenders’ leaders. Gang members were bused in from San Salvador to intimidate opponents of the pro-mining ...; Created on 23 April 2021
27. Swiss mining transnational Glencore in the Andes: (General mining reports ); ... in which to be a defender. 64 community and social leaders were killed in 2019 according to reports from Global Witness, while Front Line Defenders affirms that of the 177 Human Rights defenders murdered ...; Created on 22 April 2021
28. Australian-Canadian mining company OceanaGold misleads public on Filipino mine: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... from local government and the community. “The company secured mining rights under a Financial and Technical Assistance Agreement (FTAA), which required it to reach agreement with landholders for access ...; Created on 22 April 2021
29. ‘Complete turnaround’: Philippines’ Duterte lifts ban on new mining permits: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... Manobo leader on the southern island of Mindanao, who was murdered after opposing illegal mining in his community in the Pantaron mountain range. The Carmen Pit, an open-pit copper mine site in Toledo, ...; Created on 15 April 2021
30. El Salvador’s Water Defenders and the Fight Against Toxic Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... community meetings, a Pac Rim official boasted that cyanide was so safe that he was more than happy to drink a glass of a favorite local drink, horchata, laced with a white power he claimed was cyanide. ...; Created on 11 April 2021
31. What Salvadoran Activists Can Teach Us About Building Coalitions: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... of Wall Street. Undoubtedly, the most vital component was the determination and organizing acumen of the Riveras, Morales, and their allies in the community groups that anchored La Mesa. Yet other community-based ...; Created on 05 April 2021
32. Gold mine expansion could produce $2.5 billion. But environmental problems linger: (OceanaGold); ... Voters of South Carolina, said environmentalists plan to speak out about the mine expansion proposal. “The conservation community will be weighing in on the expansion permits, especially given the recent ...; Created on 30 March 2021
33. An unlikely eco-alliance in postwar El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... all the other community members about this risk. First, he was disappeared and nobody knew where he was until two weeks later when his body was found. The investigation that the government conducted supposedly ...; Created on 22 March 2021
34. Mine reappears on list of suspects: Lead source inquiry welcomed: (OceanaGold); Otago Daily Hamish Maclean OceanaGold has welcomed investigations under way to rule out all possible sources of lead in an Otago community’s water supply even after the mining company resurfaced on ...; Created on 13 March 2021
35. Parliamentary Petition Calls on Canada to Act on Human Rights Abuses in the Philippines: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... groups,” she added. Community members from Didipio, Nueva Vizcaya, accuse Canadian OceanaGold’s copper-gold project of serious human rights and environmental abuses. “In 2018, local indigenous people, ...; Created on 25 February 2021
36. The trial for Guapinol water defender Jeremías Martínez begins today in Tegucigalpa, Honduras: (Mining and Human Rights); ... oxide mine. By 2017 the Municipal Committee for the Defence of Public and Common Goods had been created and called for public consultations so that community members could decide whether they wanted ...; Created on 22 February 2021
37. A Private Government in Honduras Moves Forward: (Mining and Human Rights); NACLA Beth Geglia and Andrea Nuila It’s almost like an insult that this is happening to us now, after so much sacrifice to develop the community to the point it’s at today,” Venessa Cardenas explains, ...; Created on 15 February 2021
38. Gold mine fined $100,000. Toxic air pollution found at big mine near tiny town: (OceanaGold); ... the people of that community, who trusted that the gold mine would be operated and run and monitored safely, are now suffering — or will suffer — the long term impacts of heavy metals like mercury in their ...; Created on 12 February 2021
39. Canadian Mining Companies Are Devastating The Global South: (Mining and Human Rights); ... the local peasant community, wounding five people. The community alleged that Tahoe was behind the attack, and that it was an attempt to scare them off the land in order for the company to take control. ...; Created on 21 January 2021
40. Vizcaya governor asks Rody to end 2 mine operations: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... of OPGI …endangers the lives of the community… please heed our appeal. NO TO RENEWAL OF OGPI FTAA [the 25-year Financial or Technical Assistance Agreement].” In his letter to Duterte, Padilla expressed ...; Created on 21 January 2021

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