P. Cabezas
Local companies tied to foreign capital drive the push to privatize water magament and services in El Salvador.
The fight for the defence of water in El Salvador and the recent conflicts ...
... local watershed committees, assigning permits, resolving conflicts over the use of water, establishing fees for services, regulating tariffs and other strategic policies of the national water distribution ...
... mining operations, due to the social and environmental damage they say has been caused since they began in 2007.
Conflicts like this have broken out in other areas of Guatemala and in other Central American ...
... northern El Salvador, the negative impacts of its ICSID suit, and the conflicts that have resulted from OceanaGold’s ongoing operation in northern El Salvador, including through the El Dorado Foundation; ...
... manoeuvring and conflicts with the local communities that tragically cost the lives of four environmental activists –one of whom, Dora Alicia Recinos Sorto, was eight months pregnant- the request was declined ...
... Environmental Secretary who ordered the suspension of the Didipio mine was not confirmed under heavy pressure from the mining lobby in the Philippines in May, but the underlying conflicts have not gone ...
... mining conflicts.
Canadian-Australian mining company OceanaGold is suing El Salvador for US$250 million at a World Bank tribunal when the company failed to obtain a mining permit for which it never met ...
... making donations to schools, clinics and other activities, but the operations of this entity also have the potential to exacerbate conflicts among the same population.
"We believe this research reveals ...
... years, piling up legal costs and draining energy from the popular movement to safeguard drinking water, food, and crops.
Meanwhile, the suit exacerbated conflicts in El Salvador. Several activists opposed ...
... behind him. Morales is the head of the national office for the defense of human rights. “In the end, they became deadly conflicts after the company failed to receive the permit to mine precious metals”. ...
... of the already scarce and polluted water resources. CRIPDES also fears that violence could break out as a result of community division and conflicts between companies and environmentalists. The numerous ...
... underscores the company’s track record when it comes to social and environmental issues as well as conflicts and human rights abuses.
OGPI’s 17,626-hectare project has displaced and continues to affect ...
... of environmental problems and conflicts during the post war period of the nineties, when he was the Dean of the Lutheran University of El Salvador. This led him to study a Masters of Environmental Management ...
... as investigators have discovered no leads.
Culture of impunity
The continuing intimidation of anti-mining activists is not uncommon in countries experiencing environmental conflicts. A Global Witness investigationfound ...
... has transcended our borders, and government authorities must invest efforts to seek peaceful solutions to conflicts these may cause and to avoid negative consequences to the life, health, and environment ...
... displacement of populations, negative impacts on the environment, national and international environmental conflicts that cause the breakdown of the social fabric, loss of identity and the violation of ...
... project. Since 2009 seven people have died as a direct result of conflicts caused by the presence of Pacific Rim Mining in the region.
Since the early 2000 as many as 10 transnational mining corporations ...
... sue our country in international corporate courts, demanding hundreds of millions of dollars, and death threats against members of the anti-mining resistance persist. Mining conflicts have also deepened ...
... such as the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes(ICSID) to resolve conflicts with the government of El Salvador, such tribunals are undemocratic in nature and are not concerned with ...
... right to make policy decisions based on the public interest.
The presence of mining corporations in El Salvador has also led to localized conflicts and violations of human rights in communities where ...