... US companies (RDV and TECO) and is currently subject to other arbitration claims for hundreds of millions of dollars.
BACKGROUND
Since 2011, the communities of San José del Golfo and San Pedro Ayampuc ...
... of the ARENA/ANEP law consists of one executive representative, 2 representatives of COMURES (an ARENA dominated group of mayors) and 2 representatives of ANEP. While ARENA claims that their law is not ...
... the geographical distribution of claims worth billions of dollars presented to date. 29% of these demands are against Central and South America countries; not including Mexico” .“If we make a comparison, ...
... bear witness to OceanaGold’s irresponsible mining in his province and publicly to discredit the company’s claims of “responsible mining” there.14 On March 29, 2017, members of the Legislative Assembly—some ...
... for making further claims, rather, we believe that the government of El Salvador has been kind enough to OceanaGold, throughout this process as the lawsuit against the country was always unjust" he stressed. ...
... multi-partisan support.
However, voices in the pro-business community are starting to respond to the prospect of a mining ban. One commentator, Paolo Luers, writing in ElSalvador.com, claims that with ...
... and dangerous foundation in that claims to do “social responsibility” work, but is really a PR front for the company that could be laying the foundations for violent conflict.
It is now seven and a half ...
... Bank tribunal heavily influenced by large corporations who use there to extort States when they have no access to their lucrative claims.
So all sectors must be alert of the ICSID resolution, to reject ...
... organisations, the private sector, civil society, think-tanks and academia - in this process.
Huge claims
“Almost all investment treaties include a so-called ‘Investor to State Dispute Settlement mechanism’ ...
Public Citizen
In order to counter the increased critiques of the investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) system, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative has declared that many of the claims are ...
Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch
Investor-state dispute settlement system empowers foreign corporations to bypass domestic courts, challenge government’s public interest policies before extrajudicial ...
Caritas El Salvador
This article discusses four myths that are told by the mining industry in order to justify their activities in Central America. First, that the current technologies used in mining ...
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“OceanaGold claims it is committed to improving conditions in local communities, but this is absurd when the company is suing El Salvador for hundreds of millions of dollars in a process designed to ...
... lives and livelihoods were being put at risk. A vibrant national movement grew up around these frontline forces, making citizen opposition to Keystone abundantly clear.
Yet TransCanada claims it had every ...
... claims before the panel.
At the end of these allegations, Luis Parada affirms that they asked the tribunal to consider the re-opening of the interim decision that was issued two years before, since time ...
... decision not to give it a concession to exploit gold.
The Salvadoran government claims the exploitation could contaminate the scarce water resources that the nation has.
The initial demand made by ...
... with the case," according to a press release from MiningWatch Canada. The company claims that under the Central American Free Trade Agreement, it has the right to sue the Salvadoran government for passing ...
... corporation claims to have the right. Salvadorans, meanwhile, argue that the concession never existed.
Yesterday’s proceedings were the latest in a series of arguments that began to unfold last week ...
... the government of El Salvador denied the company a permit to mine and all other administrations have continued to deny permits since. The company claims the denial is an unfair rejection of investors’ ...
... while forcibly evicting communities and people who have historical claims to those territories. In the north, the planned construction of hydro electrical dams such as El Cimarron, El Tigre and El Chaparral ...