... water source. The company sued the government for $250 million under free trade rules, a suit that only grew after the Australian-Canadian company OceanaGold acquired Pacific Rim.
The legal dispute turned ...
... many scientists are concluding that in certain countries and areas, mining should be prohibited.3 El Salvador is one such place.
Global mining firms, most now headquartered in Canada and Australia, flooded ...
... no longer giving transnational corporations recourse to international tribunals.)
By 2013, Pacific Rim was in financial trouble and was bought out by Oceana Gold from Australia. By late 2016, after a ...
... Australian-Canadian mining company has been attempting to get its controversial El Dorado gold mining project off the ground in El Salvador.
Carlos Padilla, governor of the Philippines province of Nueva ...
... (originally owned by Pacific Rim before being acquired by Australian-Canadian mining giant OceanaGold in 2013) in the northern province of Cabañas became the epicenter of the conflict. Between 2009-2011, four ...
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Despite the fact that there is a national consensus among communities, civil society organizations, government institutions, and political parties for a mining prohibition, the Australian-Canadian company ...
... the Canadian miner Pacific Rim, now owned by the Australian Ocean Gold, which claimed compensation of 250 million dollars from the Salvadorean government.
The case dates back to 2009 when Canadian miner ...
... ruled in October 2016 in favor of El Salvador and against the Canadian miner Pacific Rim, now owned by the Australian Oceana Gold, which claimed compensation from the Salvadoran government for 250 million ...
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Despite a deadline from the lawsuit passing, the company owes El Salvador US$8 million.
Over 280 organizations from around the world sent an open letter to Canadian-Australian mining giant OceanaGold ...
... in late 2013, the Canadian-Australian firm OceanaGold paid just C$10 million to pick up the company and its principal asset: the suit against El Salvador, which it persisted in fighting.
The suit has ...