... Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) held consultative meetings for the implementing rules and regulations of Executive Order (EO) No. 130, which lifts the mining ban imposed during the ...
... mine in Guatemala where a court-ordered consultation with the Indigenous Xinka People is pending. Pan American Silver’s continued interference at the local level is seen by the Xinka as an act of bad faith ...
... overseas.
The government committed to providing the office with full investigative powers – including the ability to subpoena documents and call witnesses – in order to carry out this mandate. However ...
... integrity of a court-ordered consultation process and put their security at risk.
Pan American Silver’s Escobal mine has been suspended since June 2017, first as a result of direct community action and ...
... if companies agree “to voluntarily provide information that it requires in order to do an investigation.” CORE is certainly not the kind of robust, independent regulator that was promised.
There’s an ...
... a series of devastating mining accidents. The executive order released Thursday was welcomed by the mining sector -- but green groups branded the decision "outrageous" and warned it could lead to more environmental ...
Manila Bulletin
Madelaine B. Miraflor
Australian-Canadian miner OceanaGold Corporation (OceanaGold) and the Philippine government are now finalizing the terms of their updated Financial and Technical ...
... who had served as a military attaché to the United States during the civil war, and El Salvador’s influential archbishop, a member of the ultraconservative Opus Dei order. They persuaded the archbishop ...
... to acknowledge their responsibility for these impacts, in order to seek redress.
The communiqué also warns of the parent companies’ announcements regarding putting their shares up for sale. “An assessment ...
... on Human Rights 2011 report found that OceanaGold had violated human rights by illegally demolishing at least 187 houses in Didipio, without a court order and without relocating those without shelter. ...
... warn the new order could further endanger defenders as well as open key biodiversity areas to mining. MANILA — President Rodrigo Duterte has issued an order to lift a nine-year moratorium on granting new ...
... the government under the rigged rules that govern investment across borders.
As we describe in our new book, The Water Defenders, communities across El Salvador fought back. They studied the science ...
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Sofia Lastenia Cerrato Rodriguez, ...
... several civil society organizations. It asks the court to order Global Affairs Canada to remove the redactions on 20 pages of documents the department disclosed in response to an access-to-information ...
... Constitution. Even though all ZEDEs are ordered to fulfill the principles of human rights in the Honduran Constitution, it is legally unclear how the latter can coexist with the property-based regime ingrained ...
... toxic metal with an array of health impacts on people and wildlife.
According to a DHEC enforcement order released Thursday, the Haile Gold Mine exceeded safe limits multiple times for mercury pollution ...
... open-pit silver mine in southern Puno. Residents of the region were concerned about the environmental risk of the mine, including to Lake Titicaca, which lies on Puno’s border with Bolivia and serves as ...
... corporations in the United States and across the world.
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... to halt its operation back in October. Padilla also issued a cease and desist order against the company in June 2019. OGPI refused to acknowledge the order and filed a petition before the local court to ...
... be able to bring a claim in case of adverse governmental conduct, including by the local courts. Advice should also be obtained if and when a dispute arises in order to take all appropriate steps early ...