... has figured in human rights violations. Kalikasan PNE noted that from 2007 to 2018 various rights violations were recorded such as lack of free, prior, and informed consent (FPIC), forced demolitions, ...
... people in 2007, and since then local residents in different villages scattered throughout this municipality and nearby areas have been organised to bring its operations to a halt.
"Water, apart from ...
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Faced with official indifference at both local and national levels, protests developed into a region-wide strike in May 2011. One of the central demands was the repeal of Executive Decree 083 – 2007 ...
... years, polluting the environment (especially water) and endangering human health. The factory was closed by order of the Ministry of Health in 2007, when 369 employees and over 7000 people living in six ...
... regulation of commercial and industrial use.
The debate on these issues has not always been peaceful. In 2007, 17 leaders of the social movement, Association for the Development of El Salvador (CRIPDES) ...
... good that should be publicly managed with focus on sustainability, accessible domestic use and regulation of commercial and industrial use.
The debate has not always been civil, in 2007, 17 leaders ...
... mining operations, due to the social and environmental damage they say has been caused since they began in 2007.
Conflicts like this have broken out in other areas of Guatemala and in other Central American ...
... citizens among its ranks. In 2007, the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of El Salvador asked the government to prohibit mining. The leftist Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) party, which was ...
... surrounding its El Dorado mining project.
Divided loyalties generated tensions and by 2007 environmental defenders began to report anonymous death threats against their lives and the lives of their relatives. ...
... led to a groundbreaking parliamentary report in 2005, which in turn led to the government establishing a “Corporate Social Responsibility Roundtables” process in 2006 and a final report in 2007 that called ...
... to El Salvador’s already-fragile water supplies. By 2007, a University of Central America poll revealed that close to two-thirds of the population opposed industrial mining.6
Then came the first unexpected ...
... legal battle against the company, which is still aiming to operate in the country despite the controversy.
In 2007, El Salvador denied a permit to OceanaGold due to concerns the mine would not adhere ...
... began in 2007, when El Salvador sought to defend its sovereignty by denying OceanaGold, then Pacific Rim, a new permit to extract the nation's gold reserves.
In an exclusive interview with teleSUR, Chico ...
... Mining and important sectors of society, such as the hierarchy of the Catholic Church, that were calling for a prohibition on all metal mining activities.
“Since 2007, the Bishops Conference has called ...
... indicated that in the period between 2007 and 2015, they did not authorize any exploration licenses, nor mineral exploitation concessions.
The report also notes that none of the exploration licenses obtained ...
... 2007, three successive presidents, from both the right-wing ARENA and left-wing FMLN parties, have maintained an administrative metals mining “industry freeze.” This executive action has created a de-facto ...
... Pacific Rim (now owned by OceanaGold) against the Salvadoran State for denying the company mining permits in 2007. “The National Roundtable Against Metallic Mining in El Salvador considers that this visit ...
... Glazer, and referred to the Department of State in December 2007, constitutes new evidence for the defense of the Republic, which is in conflict with Pacific Rim mining company before the International ...
... to change the Mining Law and even “wrote a project for a new law in 2007, trying to get it approved in the Legislative Assembly”.
“When this proved impossible, Pacific Rim threatened El Salvador with ...
... Melgar and Salvador Arias. In 2007 three more were presented: one by Julian Ernesto Salinas and Jose Luis Flores, the second by Ricardo Nunez and the third one by Raul Moreno. All argued faults in form ...