Minería Panamericana
Anglo American mining company has filed a lawsuit against a ban preventing Colombian coal miner Cerrejón from developing its La Puente project.
The latest lawsuit comes after Cerrejón ...
... Morales, president of ADES. “To bring investors to the country to do what’s most feasible: mining.”
Banner image: An official looking through photos and files of the five activists, who were part of ...
... precedent-setting lawsuit. The files paint a picture of overbearing corporate influence, political interference, and widespread intimidation and abuse.
In Brazil, Toronto-based Belo Sun Mining is moving ...
... to a 2019 two-part series by independent media outlet VERA Files, the Boac river is still biologically dead and local residents in Marinduque, including Racquel Logatoc, the chief of the affected Bocboc ...
... the Dominican Republic, Central America and the United States (DR-CAFTA). The company cites the community protests and unjust treatment by the state.
December 11, 2018 -- KCA files a $300 million claim ...
PRESS RELEASE
San Salvador, May 31st 2018. Last week the Environment and Climate Change Committee of the Legislative Assembly moved to archive all files and petitions related metallic mining in El ...
... conducts a quantitative analysis to identify trends in the use of ISDS by Canadian investors, explores ISDS through various case studies and discussed policy implications for Canada.
https://www.policyalternatives.ca/sites/default/files/uploads/publications/National%20Office/2015/08/Losing_Proposition.pdf ...
Aguiar and Vargas, 2015
This paper exemplifies several articles describing different struggles that have occurred between transnational corporations and people fighting for their rights. One of them ...
Project Newsletter
The value of gold has soared due to the recent financial crisis making it a very profitable industry. However, the extraction of these resources is a source of conflict among affected ...
... that rely more heavily on natural resource exports have a slower GDP growth rate per capita.
http://www.oxfamamerica.org/static/media/files/metals-mining-and-sustainable-development-in-central-america.pdf ...
... well as developing health issues from the exposure to hazardous chemicals. The mining industry violates human rights by negatively influencing the health, society and well-being of communities.
https://www.earthworksaction.org/files/publications/NDG_DirtyMetalsReport_HR.pdf ...
E. Lisa F. Schipper, October 2006
This paper describes the perceptions of the people of Bajo Lempa of the effects of climate change and strategies that have been taken to adapt to these changes. It explains ...
Herzinger, F; Luis Gonzales and Angel Ibarra. El Lado Oscuro del Oro, Impactos de la Mineria Metalica en El salvador, Diciembre 2008. Available at: http://unes.org.sv/sites/default/files/documentos/2012/03/elladooscurodeloroc.pdf ...
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El Salvador is worried about environmental damages, and therefore bans the mining of raw materials. A Canadian company files a lawsuit before an international court of arbitration in Washington ...
... files a lawsuit before an arbitration tribunal. From El Salvador, Oliver Ristau.
A vote could hardly be any clearer. 99% of the voters in Arcatao, a Municipality in northern El Salvador, said No. There ...