Oxfam
This assessment conducted by Oxfam discusses the social, environmental and economic costs of metals mining in Central America. The prices of metals are very unstable and mining practices produce ...
... tunnel to open-pit mining: deficiencies in the Environmental Impact Assessment
In 2007, ENTREMARES S.A., a subsidiary of Goldcorp, obtained an exploitation license from the Ministry of Environment and ...
... with the Ministry of the Environment in the assessment of mining and quarry exploration proposals.
The new law mentions only once the existing Law of Prohibition of Metallic Mining, stating that “the ...
... Commissioner Service (TCS), which supports many mining projects. TCS officials based at Canadian diplomatic outposts assist firms with market assessments, problem-solving, and introductions to local officials. ...
... to acknowledge their responsibility for these impacts, in order to seek redress.
The communiqué also warns of the parent companies’ announcements regarding putting their shares up for sale. “An assessment ...
... financed by unknown sources, were sent from outside the Aguán to sabotage the construction of an otherwise responsible, non-polluting, job-creating mine.”
That is not an assessment shared by people who ...
... incomplete environmental impact assessment. It built its mine without a construction license and through violent repression of local communities by private security and state-armed forces under a corrupt ...
... 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 ...
... of extension.
While the act mandates environmental impact assessments and compels developers to get consent from Indigenous communities before setting up mines in ancestral lands, activists say companies ...
... The requirements for FTAA renewal should have included a new environmental impact assessment (EIA) and comprehensive proof that it has complied with the findings and recommendations of the Mine Audit ...
... mine located just north of Guatemala City since March 2010.
The Peaceful Resistance of La Puya, which is made up of members from these communities, has stated, "[The environmental impact assessment] ...
... early 2014, was fast-tracked to production, moving from a preliminary economic assessment to commercial production in less than two years. In 2016 it produced over 21 million ounces of silver, making it ...
... Guatemalan and International law, and that the company’s Environmental Impact Assessment was plagued with serious deficiencies,” the letter reads. “We ask you to ensure environmental concerns surrounding ...
... until the country could conduct a country-wide economic and environmental assessment of mining’s impact.7 Furious about this de facto ban on mining, a firm called Pac Rim Cayman launched a lawsuit against ...
... to national standards regulating the industry after the company failed to submit a feasibility study and Environmental Impact Assessment. The government was particularly concerned about water pollution ...
... Pacific Rim Mining first announced its intention to sue in April 2009, after outgoing Salvadoran President Saca declared that he would not issue any new mine permits until a strategic environmental assessment ...
... of El Salvador raised concerns over the failure of the company’s El Dorado gold mine to submit an Environmental Impact Assessment. OceaneGold then sued the small Central American country in the World Bank' ...
... Strategic Environmental Assessment of the Mining Sector -EAE- conducted in 2011, concluded that the conditions of environmental vulnerability of El Salvador pose a significant barrier to the possibility ...
... that the mining company's assessments had serious gaps: it lacked the baseline water quality and quantity data required for an accurate examination of watershed impacts; it also failed to consider the costs ...
... Times.
Losing the case, the minister explained, would threaten the government’s policy on metals mining.
“In 2011, we conducted an environmental assessment which determined that El Salvador ...