... Escobal mining license.
May 24: KCA confirms plans to pursue a US$300mn arbitration claim over the Tambor mine suspension, which it says resulted a series of acts and omissions by the state that were ...
... policymakers now have to worry that their policy responses could make them the target of lawsuits.
A separate legal system
In fact, law firms already seem to be salivating over the potential to profit ...
... of water for mining activity involves turning water into a non-renewable resource which is then overexploited and contaminated, preventing its regeneration.
Anglo American affirms that the Quellaveco ...
... protections that permits foreign firms to challenge government policies, laws and court decisions through private arbitration.Under the USMCA, this investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) system will ...
... companies are the most likely sector to make use of ISDS worldwide. Canadian mining companies make up the bulk of the mining firms that are suing governments in Latin America, including many junior exploration ...
... a tiny amount when it is compared to other mining projects owned by Canadian firms, such as Goldcorp’s Marlin mine in San Marcos, or Tahoe Resources’ El Escobal Mine in San Rafael las Flores. In the first ...
Andrés McKinley - UK LAB
On March 29th, 2017, the small country of El Salvador became the first nation in the world to exercise its sovereign right to say “no” to metallic mining after carefully analyzing ...
... with the idea of "Responsible Mining". But González affirms that there is no socially responsible mining that replaces what is lost in the ecosystems through extractive activity.
Environmentalists also ...
... 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 ...
... Company is now evaluating its next steps but confirms that the El Dorado project and any opportunity in El Salvador are not part of the business strategy at this time,” according to the Minerales Torogoz ...
By P. Cabezas & Sebastian Rosemont
In response to enormous public pressure, lawmakers have rejected appeals by global corporations and voted to protect the country’s people and water supply by banning ...
... and jobs.
The No. 1 NAFTA provision that does this is the investor-state clause. By making it easy for corporations to sue governments in other countries, this provision gives firms a big incentive ...
... the law firms Foley Hoag, who represented El Salvador in the process, and Crowell & Moring, which litigated on behalf of the mining company, evidences the reluctance of the applicant to comply with the ...
... the attitude of the actual and the previous Government, as to stay firm in their decision to not permit mining and to not negotiate with the mining company.
The arbitration award confirms once more something ...
... of what is wrong with investor-state-dispute-settlement clauses, whether they are inserted in domestic laws or bilateral or multilateral investment agreements. El Salvador’s experience confirms the threats ...
... been a proponent of the General Water Law, therefore we demand to be included in the discussion.
The Water Forum reaffirms its commitment to the struggle for public and sustainable water management and ...
... Vidalina Morales of the National Roundtable Against Mining, said that the research confirms the doubts and suspicions about the actions of the El Dorado Gold Oceana Foundation.
"There are more than enough ...
... ways, through education projects and theatrical performances. His brother assures us that the perpetrators have been apprehended, but not the masterminds behind the murder: “The mining firms operate here, ...
... moratorium that prevents all mining firms – international and Salvadoran, public and private – from accessing El Salvador’s estimated 1.4 million ounces of gold deposits. Some in the Salvadoran media ...
... 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 ...