Xenia Gonzales Oliva: El Diario de Hoy / Translation P. Cabezas
Between 2000-2010, 49 exploration permits were approved, they are all currently under an administrative freeze.
49 applications for metal ...
... anniversary of the historic mining prohibition, approved unanimously by the Legislative Assembly in 2017, there are signs that the government of President Nayib Bukele is creating conditions to overturn ...
... That in 2007 the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources of Guatemala approved an Environmental Impact Study for the company ENTREMARES S.A., (subsidiary of the Canadian based Goldcorp) which had ...
THE GENERAL LAW ON WATER RESOURCES APPROVED BY THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY LEGALIZES WATER INJUSTICE, PROMOTES THE THEFT AND DISPOSSESSION OF WATER IN THE TERRITORIES
San Salvador, December 22, 2021. ...
... legislation creating the General Directorate of Energy, Hydrocarbons and Mines, approved by the Legislative Assembly on October 26. The objectives of this new Directorate are to authorize, regulate and ...
... of the Salvadoran people.
Even more worrisome is recent legislation creating the General Directorate of Energy, Hydrocarbons and Mines, approved by the Legislative Assembly on October 26 of this year ...
... and sanitation as a right is also pending in the Legislative Assembly. The provision, approved by the previous legislature, requires 56 votes to enter into force (see Fides, 17/10/2020). Hundreds of Salvadorans ...
... significant socio-economic benefits when the renewal has been approved,” Michael Holmes, president and CEO of OceanaGold, said.
“OceanaGold is a responsible gold mining Company that is focused on operating ...
... in the reformed constitutional charter approved on July 26, 2019, is a highly corporatized model of governance with minimal opportunities for participation. A primary authority, the Technical Secretary ...
... is located at the site of a historic mining operation that closed.
Following months of public meetings, DHEC approved a permit in October 2013 to develop the mine and an ore processing plant.
Now, ...
... the Salvadoran Congress approved, in March 2017, a law that prohibited metal mining, the only regulation of its kind in the world. With this law, no company can extract gold, silver, copper, or other metallic ...
... been approved by local officials yet, said resident Sue Peachey.
“My mother came over and handed me the project overview of this tunnel and I just felt sick to my stomach,” Peachey told VICE World News. ...
... Despite the 2013 success in combating the pressure, former U.S. Ambassador Mari Carmen Aponte later insisted on reforms to the new law. Near the end of 2017, the Legislative Assembly approved reforms to ...
Agenzia Fides
San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - The Legislative Assembly of El Salvador unanimously approved, with 78 votes in favor and no votes against, the reform of the Constitution of the Republic ...
... water processing plant that should have been out of use or upgraded years ago with funds approved by the legislative Assembly in 2012, 2016, and 2018. The work was never completed.
Las Pavas is the only ...
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In Honduras, the Council of Ministers approved an Executive Decree on April 11, which establishes "measures to guarantee food sovereignty and security." The next day, President Juan Orlando Hernández ...
... Nahualá and Santa Catarina Ixtahuacán, Sololá, are still waiting to make their first statement, Santos said. Government decree 13-2020 must be approved by Congress; however, the government has not forwarded ...
Manuel Perez Rocha - Inequality
NAFTA 2.0 cleared another hurdle on January 16 as the U.S. Senate approved the trade deal with bipartisan support.
Officially called the United States-Mexico-Canada ...
... broke down between the farmers and the company when the community learned that the environmental impact assessment for the project had been approved without their prior knowledge.
Then, this month, another ...
... the spread of cross border contamination, since the Law Prohibiting Metal Mining in El Salvador (approved on March 2017) is only applicable on the national territory.
The researcher and environmentalist ...