... including scientists and fishers, have debunked President Rodrigo Duterte’s justification for the lifting of the nine-year ban on new mining contracts.
The Duterte administration has decided to end ...
... are precarious to start with.” “Water Is More Important Than Gold” The Salvadoran mining ban was instituted in March 2017, after years of lobbying by scientists, environmentalists, labor groups, the church, ...
... to account,” said Dulce.
A group of scientists from Agham conducted an environmental investigation mission in 2014 in the mining community and found damages to forests, and air and water pollution linked ...
... rivers. Arsenic is already discharged from the mine and this contamination is strongly linked to diseases such as cancer, kidney failure. Moreover, in a study conducted by Mexican scientists, it was discovered ...
by Kalikasan KPNE
Environmental activists, church leaders, lawyers, economists, scientists, politicians, and indigenous leaders gathered today at the Church of the Risen Lord in the University of the ...
... many scientists are concluding that in certain countries and areas, mining should be prohibited.3 El Salvador is one such place.
Global mining firms, most now headquartered in Canada and Australia, flooded ...
... oxygen, still active within the empty tunnels, release metals such as Cadmium, Lead, Copper, and Iron from the rocks, and then leak them out into the river. Scientists call the red mine-sauce “acid drainage”. ...
... commercially in the boundaries of Didipio, Nueva Vizcaya and Quirino, Philippines since 2013. An environment investigative mission conducted by scientists of AGHAM last year, has proved that the adjacent ...