... is negligible compared to the profit margin for these companies. The mining sector in the Philippines employed 212,000 Filipinos in 2018, and in 2017, paid $529.6 million in national and local taxes, fees, ...
... the destruction of biodiversity within the small areas of protected lands and mangrove forests; in addition to taking actions that weaken the public sector and in turn strengthen the private sector – among ...
... many people in the department of Cabañas and other sectors of the country who recognize their struggle, and subsequent murders due to the presence of mining corporations, managed to raise national awareness ...
... agriculture sector. And for employment, mining only contributed 0.05 percent as to the whopping 23 percent of agriculture.
Meanwhile, for the first quarter of the year alone, Oceanagold reported a net ...
... told IPS.
“But the reality is that countries like Honduras, Guatemala and Nicaragua have passed laws aimed directly at promoting the mining sector,” said Alfaro, who worked on the document as a consultant ...
... action, many of the countries most affected by climate change must navigate their way through a gauntlet of private-sector actors with exceptional power and resources to assert their commercial interests. ...
... companies are the most likely sector to make use of ISDS worldwide. Canadian mining companies make up the bulk of the mining firms that are suing governments in Latin America, including many junior exploration ...
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The scientific evidence is supported by the experience of thousands of inhabitants of urban slums who spend months without access to water, of poor communities in the rural sector who depend on increasingly ...
... Water Authority, an autonomous entity that guarantees a majority representation of the business sector in its board of directors through the appointment of two directors from ANEP and its business chambers ...
... for the exercising of all other rights."
El Salvador's legislature is starting debate on a national water law. The legislation is proving controversial because some lawmakers favor increased private-sector ...