... too, not just something done in solidarity with Salvadoran groups. The global coalition respected La Mesa’s lead on the domestic mining ban and used its own creative media work to turn the struggle into ...
... silver, while creating more than 200 jobs, the company has said. The mine now employs about 400 people, and is credited with pumping economic life into the once poverty-stricken town of Kershaw, just a ...
... mining companies use cyanide to separate the gold from the rock. That cyanide then gets into the water. El Salvador is a very small country and El Salvador basically has one main river that supplies more ...
... over the 58 acres now incorporated into the ZEDE model. The land has allegedly been transferred from the municipal registry to an independent Próspera ZEDE land registry.
The ZEDE law gives the Honduran ...
... the last year that the company has run into trouble with the Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) and follows other violations noted in 2018 and 2019 The company is accused of releasing ...
The State
Sammy
South Carolina regulators have fined a large gold mine $100,000 for breaking environmental rules, marking the third time in the past year the operation north of Camden has run into ...
... note that 2021 might be the year that will witness the first case filed under the new United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) that entered into force on July 1, 2020, although legacy investments ...
... years to defend their land and rivers so that their children can live in dignity and avoid the dangerous trek north. Broad and Cavanagh bring the ups and downs of this epic fight into clear focus by carefully ...
... process of law. Umbrella clause: An umbrella clause is a provision in an investment treaty which provides that a state undertakes to observe obligations that it has entered into with respect to an investor ...
Kluewer Arbitration Blog
In 2020, we witnessed a number of interesting developments in the field of investment arbitration in Latin America. From the entry into force of the United States – Mexico – ...
... in the area.
“If that tailings dam failed, it wouldn’t just take out the town, it would take out an entire river system and go into the Hauraki Gulf, which would have devastating consequences,” she said. ...
... the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic…And now the new president, Rubén Alemán, has showed up here with police and soldiers to try to illegally enter into the ACSE headquarters.”
The controversy over the ...
... enter into force from 2021, after the parliamentary elections.
The Archbishop of San Salvador, Mgr. José Luis Escobar Alas, president of the Salvadoran Episcopal Conference, in a video posted on the ...
... kilometre from the Los Filos mine’s massive heap leach pad, onto which Equinox sprays a cyanide solution to extract precious metals from crushed ore. Since the mine went into operation in 2008, the community’s ...
... The court threw it out.
But now, KCA is using the unjust, international arbitration system to strong-arm the Guatemalan government into green-lighting the unwanted mine — or compensate KCA for hundreds ...
... Honduras, turned into a river of mud. The muddied waters could be traced to the activities of a mining company, ‘Inversión Los Pinares.’
Unknown to the communities of Guapinol, the company had been granted ...
... Claims over a Gold-mining Project in Guatemala, examines Kappes, Cassiday & Associates (KCA) attempt to strong-arm the Guatemalan government through international arbitration into green-lighting the unwanted ...
... Escaleras National Park...
The legal team ensures that pre-trial jail in this case is unnecessary, disproportionate and illegal. What’s more, the new criminal code, which came into force in June 2020 ...
... men who were reportedly wearing police uniforms and forced them into three unmarked vehicles at gunpoint. This was the latest attack against the Garífuna community as they defend their territory from destructive ...
... over this widely unpopular policy fast-tracking amid the utter failure to effectively respond to the pandemic.
Instead of pouring thousands of health workers into the streets, we are seeing police and ...