... It ordered the company to pay US$8 million of the state’s legal fees.
Taking advantage of the ICSID ruling, a draft bill to prohibit metallic mining was tabled in El Salvador’s Legislative Assembly. A ...
... that the university began, two years ago, to develop a proposal for a bill prohibiting metallic mining. After a lengthy process of consultations with civil society organizations and other key actors, the ...
Sandra Cuffe: Mongabay
Legislators in El Salvador made history Wednesday, passing a bill to ban all metallic mining activities in the country.
The results of the much-anticipated vote were unanimous: ...
... few months, the church threw its weight behind the ban. In February, the Archbishop of San Salvador, José Luis Escobar Alas, delivered the bill for the Law to Ban Mining to the Legislative Assembly. In ...
... OceanaGold and its subsidiaries in El Salvador have consistently attempted to slow the bill’s progress and sought to gain support for their so-called “Responsible Mining” campaign.
The company launched ...
... of the Institute of Human Rights of the same university, José María Tojeira, and other members of the Church presented the Legislative Assembly a bill to prohibit the exploitation of metal mining.
According ...
... said at a press conference.
This past 6th of February the Catholic Church presented a bill to the Legislative Assembly to ban metal mining in El Salvador. With this law, said Escobar Alas, we intend to ...
... Archbishop of San Salvador, Jose Luis Escobar Alas, and representatives from the Universidad Centroamericana José Simeón Cañas (UCA) to present a bill to prohibit mining. The archbishop said, in no uncertain ...
... a boost Monday as leaders of the Catholic church in the Central American country presented a bill in Congress aimed at blocking mining and protecting citizens from “serious contamination.”
“The objective ...