... to applying to dig, an accusation backed up by geologist Robert Moran, whose review of the company’s Environmental Impact Assessment, found that, “the EIA would not be acceptable in countries such as Canada ...
... footprint in urban and rural ecosystems. In 2010, El Salvador ranked as one of the most vulnerable countries in the world by the United Nations Disaster Assessment and Coordination (UNDAC) with 95% of ...
... government acceded to public pressure and stopped issuing mining exploration and exploitation permits pending an environmental impact assessment. As a result two mining corporations, one based in Wisconsin, ...
... require the free, prior, and informed consent of local communities, especially before any orporate "contributions" to local officials or communities. Environmentally, responsibility involves careful assessment ...
... to be largely lacking in the Environmental Impact Assessment that Pacific Rim originally presented to the Ministry of Environment, and is taking steps to identify threats and improve local water management. ...
... acceded to public pressure and stopped issuing mining exploration and exploitation permits pending an environmental impact assessment. As a result two mining corporations, one based in Wisconsin, US, ...
... the Mesa´s proposals in the development of public policy for El Salvador’s metallic mining sector.
Signed,
[1]United Nations Disaster Assessment and Coordination, “Evaluación de la Capacidad ...
... mining permits, block the application for future permits and retroactively suspend all past permits. The bill references the Strategic Environmental Assessment, which was finally released at around the ...
... UN UNDAC (United Nations Disaster Assessment and Coordination Office) report in 2011 revealed that El Salvador is among the top ten most vulnerable countries in the world. There has been a 30% loss of ...
... assessment and a feasibility assessment among other things.
To make this easier, let’s use the hypothetical case of a gold-mining company that is seeking to mine in another country.
Are you set? Ok, ...
Recent Statements Cause Alarm for the Anti-Mining Movement
After months of waiting for the Salvadoran central government to release its mining sector Strategic Environmental Assessment, the Vice-Minister ...
... the completion of the Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) of the mining sector.
After almost a year of setbacks and then silence from the authorizes that forced, last March, the National Roundtable ...
... a copy of the mining sector Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA), which to date has not be officially released by government authorities from the Ministry of the Environment, nor Ministry of the Economy. ...
... on whether to ban mining. Since 2010 the Assembly has refused vote on the issue, saying they wanted to wait for the results of the Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) which was proposed and overseen ...
... its development. During that same year, Pacific Rim and Dayton Mining fused and ownership of El Dorado passed to Pacific Rim.
In the year 2004, Pacific Rim presented its Environmental Impact Assessment ...
... “The environmental ministry cannot grant permits for mining projects if the company’s environmental impact assessment does not show that they’re going to protect the earth, aquifers, surface, the air and ...
... in October of 2011 that it would evaluate the possibilities of a Moratorium on exploitation permits for metallic mining in El Salvador. The delay in the results of this Strategic Environmental 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 ...