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1. Incoming Minister of the Environment confirms continuation of mining moratorium in El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... Lina Pohl, announced at an international forum at the Central American University that her ministry will continue to support the mining moratorium that has taken place in El Salvador since 2008. The ...; Created on 29 May 2014
2. Green group supports ban on open-pit mining, protection of 'no mining zones: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... Meanwhile, House Bill 6450, or the Open Pit Mining Ban bill, aims to impose a moratorium on the open pit method of mining for copper, gold, silver and complex ores in the country. Both bills were introduced ...; Created on 27 May 2021
3. Scientists, fishers say new mining deals to cause more damage than good: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... the moratorium on making new mining agreements in the Philippines purportedly to stimulate its ailing economy during the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. Last week, the Mines and Geosciences Bureau of the ...; Created on 24 May 2021
4. Environmental activists are being killed in Honduras over their opposition to mining: (Regional News); ... industries and causing conflicts with communities. The corporate-friendly General Mining Law lifted a seven-year moratorium on new mining projects — it was developed with technical assistance and funding ...; Created on 06 May 2021
5. Philippines' Duterte lifts ban on new mining deals: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... the country's coronavirus-devastated economy. The mining industry has stagnated since 2012 when Duterte's predecessor, Benigno Aquino, imposed a moratorium on new projects following public backlash over ...; Created on 05 May 2021
6. A New Environmentalist Playbook An improbable victory in El Salvador offers lessons for grassroots activists worldwide: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... environment when the system is stacked against them? When El Salvador’s government imposed a de facto moratorium on new mining licenses, Pacific Rim filed a lawsuit in 2009 with the World Bank’s International ...; Created on 23 April 2021
7. ‘Complete turnaround’: Philippines’ Duterte lifts ban on new mining permits: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... 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 ...; Created on 15 April 2021
8. New Report: Mining Injustice Through International Arbitration: Countering Kappes, Cassiday & Associates’ Claims over a Gold-mining Project in Guatemala: (Regional News); ... and report co-author Luis Solano. As the report illustrates, KCA enjoyed immense privileges in Guatemala. The company managed to obtain its operating license despite a mining moratorium and a woefully ...; Created on 24 August 2020
9. Criminalisation brought to new extremes in case of Aymara indigenous communities in Peru: (Regional News); ... sought the cancellation of all mining concessions in the region and a moratorium on future concessions. The strike in Puno intensified and the government was eventually forced to repeal its decree. The ...; Created on 28 August 2018
10. COMMUNIQUE: The State of the Right to Free Prior and Informed Consent in the CA4 Region: (Media Releases); ... consent must issue moratoriums or suspensions of licenses and concessions of extractivist projects, to guarantee respect for human rights. the Salvadoran Government, in particular, besides having introduced ...; Created on 08 May 2018
11. How El Salvador Won on Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... he came to power, he would prohibit mining. The FMLN won in March 2009, and Funes issued a moratorium on mining while the government conducted a strategic evaluation. In response, a pair of international ...; Created on 07 May 2018
12. Looming threats to the mining prohibition in El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... ADES. But mining companies did not take the opposition lightly. When the intention to implement a moratorium to further study the impacts of mining was introduced in 2008, two companies sued the ...; Created on 08 February 2018
13. El Salvador – When The Seeds Of Resistance Bloom: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... on the basis that the company had not met the necessary regulatory requirements and a nationwide moratorium on all new mining projects was put in place. The company cried foul. They maintained that they ...; Created on 23 June 2017
14. El Salvador becomes first country to ban metals mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... mining’ in the Philippines has been an environmental disaster. Judge it by the reality of its mining operations in my country not by its words or promises,” he said in a statement Wednesday. A moratorium ...; Created on 16 April 2017
15. El Salvador Passes Historic Law To Ban Metal Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... of El Salvador. After the president of El Salvador placed a moratorium on mining in 2008, the company sued the small Central American country for $250 million dollars for an alleged violation of investor ...; Created on 16 April 2017
16. In El Salvador, OceanaGold Must ‘Pay Up and Pack Up’: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... also reveals that the company knew, well before President Saca made his first public promise in 2008 not to issue any mining permits, that the government was considering a moratorium on mining in response ...; Created on 03 March 2017
17. Pressure Mounts on El Salvadoran Legislature to Ban Metal Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... Due to the fragile state of El Salvador’s water systems and environment in general there has been a moratorium on mining since 2008. President Antonio Saca, from the right-wing ARENA party, was the first ...; Created on 13 February 2017
18. El Salvador Church Leaders Fight for Ban on Mining Exploitation: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... moved to curb mining activity in the country in the past, efforts by the FMLN to institutionalize a ban have been unsuccessful. In 2008, President Antonio Saca, then of the Arena party, implemented a moratorium ...; Created on 10 February 2017
19. EL SALVADOR’S WIN AGAINST THE US MINING COMPANY PACIFIC RIM: A VERY NUANCED VICTORY: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... has kept a moratorium on metal mining which, although it has yet to be enshrined in law, has proved useful in safeguarding the interests of ordinary citizens. Secondly it shows how different forms of ...; Created on 28 December 2016
20. ICSID decision buoys El Salvador in mining dispute: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... the attention created by the ruling to press for a permanent ban on metal mining in El Salvador. An administrative moratorium on mine permits has been in place since 2008; unless the country’s unicameral ...; Created on 10 November 2016

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