... effect pressures the government to restart the mine, or otherwise pay the company hundreds of millions of dollars in lost potential profits.
CAFTA-DR, like thousands of other international investment ...
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The scientific evidence is supported by the experience of thousands of inhabitants of urban slums who spend months without access to water, of poor communities in the rural sector who depend on increasingly ...
... on Corporate Accountability, and – with the support of tens and hundreds of thousands of Canadians over the years – has continuously fought for a such an oversight body, as well as for legal accountability ...
... month later, the Catholic Church led a thousands-strong march in San Salvador to demand the bill’s approval.
OceanaGold would not let up, however, and launched a public relations campaign to persuade ...
... Congress "several booklets with thousands of signatures collected, in support of the bill to prohibit mining in El Salvador," according to the Catholic Office.
In late February, residents of the municipality ...
... of extractivism perpetuated by OceanaGold, and that thousands of like-minded social movements are collectively working to defeat corporate plunder and injustice. Padayon!#
Leon Dulce represented the secretariat ...
... Triangle are of concern, we know their strategy is to seize the unique remaining natural resources, such as water and mining projects that utilize thousands of cubic meters per day, and is also the forced ...
... would give thousands of corporations in partner countries the right to sue the U.S. government for passing laws to secure climate stability and protect our kids’ futures.
In El Salvador, Miguel Rivera ...
... the river flows have decreased to drought levels. At the same time, companies can still drill wells, deforest, dry out underground aquifers and continue to work without an afterthought, while thousands ...
Rene Guerra - teleSUR
The company’s proposed gold mine would have used thousands of tons of cyanide and hundreds of thousand liters of water per day
In anticipation of an imminent ruling from the ...
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But despite of the relentless campaigning which has also included permanent rallies in front of the legislative building, direct actions and petitions signed by tens of thousands of citizens and hundreds ...
P. Cabezas
Dozens of civil society organizations in five different countries and hundreds of thousands of people took action to demand OceanaGold's withdrawal from El Salvador.
While the future of ...
... tens of thousands of people. Three pieces of legislation, the Special Law to Prohibit Metallic Mining, an updated General Water Law, and Legislation Sustainable Food access, have been introduced to the ...
El Salvador is being sued by Pacific Rim Mining, a Canadian based corporation owned by Australia's OceanaGold, before the International Center for the Settlement of Investments Disputes –ICSID-. The ...
... says Shrake, who immediately booked a flight to El Salvador to take a look for himself. He paced the property, gauging surface-level geologic formations that might give an indication of what lay thousands ...
... show that mining would exhaust the country’s already scarce water reserves, dump thousands of liters of toxic chemicals into the ground, and leave swaths of territory in the most densely populated country ...
... – the right to sue governments in international arbitration tribunals granted under a complex web of free trade agreements (FTAs) and thousands of bilateral investment treaties (BITs).
This report explains ...
Thousands of people hailing from different regions of El Salvador marched through San Salvador this morning to urge the government to stop metallic mining and to approve legislation to protect water in ...
... Roundtable against Metallic Mining (the Mesa). Since 2006, the Mesa has brought together hundreds of communities and thousands of people from across El Salvador, including environmental, community-based, ...
... thousands of people throughout the country and includes environmental, community-based, research, legal and religious organizations.In 2009, when the Salvadoran government began to put restrictions on ...