... of People who would be affected by the contamination produced by the mining industry.
"They helped their colleagues and our country against extractivist companies who want to take over El Salvador's resources, ...
... Salvador has one major watershed, the Lempa River, which supplies water for over half the country's population. The proposed mine would threaten this watershed through both use of water and contamination. ...
... human rights violations, notably in the Philippines. Forceful displacement, corruption, tax evasion and contamination are crimes that government authorities in the province Nueva Vizcaya have attributed ...
... the San Sebastian site and finding that CGC had failed to take measures to mitigate the impacts of contamination as established in the original environmental monitoring plan presented by the company. Subsequent ...
... become a palpable threat to their livelihoods and their already fragile environment: “Water wells began to dry out and cattle began to die for no reason, some argue that it was due to the contamination ...
... here have extracted gold for decades worth millions of dollars”, the 58-year-old man says. “The only things that they left for us are poverty and contamination”.
People here live in simple houses under ...
... targeted for mining projects, those affected would not only be the inhabitants of Chalatenango. Avelar explained that the principal victims of water contamination in Chalatenango would be the inhabitants ...
... for us are poverty and contamination”. To this day, acid waste water still comes out of the mountain. Blanco points to a stream that runs by the corn fields. It shimmers with orange acid waste water from ...
... contamination,
(c) the alteration of local hydrological systems,
(d) persistence of pollutants used in mining,
(e) the increase of pollutants that are present naturally but in significantly lower ...
... perspective on the case through an Amicus Curiae submission.
If the government were to give up under the pressure of the company and consequently concede mining permits, this would lead to a contamination ...