... should be punished for not allowing a foreign corporation to operate a mining project that threatens to poison the country’s drinking supply." http://canadians.org/blog/barlow-solidarity-el-salvador-protest-against-world-bank-washington-dc ...
... silver and gold, but mining has polluted water supplies, and residents say cyanide and arsenic are poisoning their children. The mining projects have led to civil unrest and five deaths in the area.
“OceanaGold ...
... to poison the country’s drinking supply.
OceanaGold/Pacific Rim Mining Corporation is suing the government of El Salvador for over $300 million because El Salvador is refusing to let it mine gold.
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... that arsenic filters through into the nearby river. When swallowed by children, it can lead to poisoning and even death.
The stakes are high: Already, only 2 percent of the country's river water is suitable ...
... someone to poison me, and pay him $2,000, but the Attorney General’s Office does not investigate.”
Pineda’s activism against mining began in 2004 when he found that irrigation water had stopped flowing ...
... that have been working through the democratic process to prevent a proposed cyanide-leach gold mining project, over well- founded risks that it will poison the local communities’ environment as well as ...
... met strong opposition from the local community, whose water supplies would be poisoned by contaminants from the operation.
In 2007 the president of El Salvador prohibited the mine. But Pacific Rim is ...
... They also talked about the challenges of linking many of the deaths to the poisoning of the mine because often when people die the hospital records the death as a natural death as opposed to something ...
... hopes that a new law "will protect natural resources" of El Salvador, he added.
"It is not right with these resources are taken away and (...) while the cyanide, and a poisoned a nation are left behind" ...
... springs and streams. In a nutshell: a long-term poisoning of the water, the land, and the people.
The now-orange spring water flows into a now-lifeless stream that flows into the San Sebastian river ...
... Peru, which has been designated as one of the top 10 most polluted sites in the world. The firm was sued in U.S. court on behalf of severely lead-poisoned children in La Oroya. Renco filed an investor-state ...
... a proposed mining project. There is strong local resistance to the project because of concerns it could poison a river that is the source of water for more than half the national population.
The company, ...
... cyanide-leach gold mining project, over well- founded risks that it will poison the local communities’ environment as well as the country’s most important river and source of water.
Rather than complying ...