... obtain a permit, a high profile mass media campaign promoting the benefits of “Green Mining” , and an intense community engagement crusade to generate local support for mining in the northern department ...
... benefits of a gold mine,” he said.
“OceanaGold should respect that choice and immediately drop the suit.”
The union said OceanaGold was relying on an investor state dispute settlement clause ...
... around current and potential economic benefits from mining. This can only have contributed to threats and violence, which have yet to be fully investigated.
Pacific Rim’s willingness to opt for political ...
... to mine profitably. In order to proceed, they must also persuade governments that their proposals are in the national interest. Here, governments will be interested in the economic benefits of mining, ...
... of the industry and protecting the voices of potentially affected local communities. “It is essential to ensure a vigorous public debate about the costs and benefits of mining to El Salvador,” the letter ...
... and protecting the voices of potentially affected local communities. “It is essential to ensure a vigorous public debate about the costs and benefits of mining to El Salvador,” the letter stated. Oxfam ...
... activity provides enormous benefits to large foreign corporations while it undermines the states’ ability to implement policies based on public interest and leaves a trail of environmental destruction ...
... socio-environmental reality in our country and that this industry would not bring substantial benefits. The number of jobs produced by mining and economic benefits become irrelevant compared to the negative ...
... is what neoclassical economic theory tells us. Socially, this will be responsible because the economic benefits will multiply and trickle down to the poor. In terms of environmental impact, the "environmental ...
... reality of our country, and it does not bring the substantial economic benefits mining corporations claim. Any economic gain is irrelevant compared to the negative impacts on health and the environment ...
... regard, it is necessary that the public ask the Legislative Assembly to change the legal framework that benefits transnational corporations at the expense of the State, and to repeal the entire neoliberal ...
... Treatment" and "indirect expropriation" which require the state to give foreign firms the same benefits given to Salvadoran firms and defines any governmental action or inaction that harms potential investment ...
... like El Salvador to finance gold mining, a luxury that only benefits a small group.
Dubious diplomacy: Embassies intervening to support Canadian mining companies
It is this same small group that helps ...
... because "it is a problem of Guatemala", the fact is "that it affects us because we drink this water," said the Archbishop of San Salvador.
"It is not possible that economic benefits trump the health of ...
... a creator of jobs and benefits for the people of El Salvador. As we have stated before, if the true intention of Pacific Rim were to help the democratic, equitable and sustainable development of the Salvadoran ...
... stated that “[…] we affirm that, by putting human life in danger, even though there might be economic benefits, precious metal mining should not be allowed in El Salvador. There are no material benefits ...
... Productivity Commission which concluded there were few clear benefits, and several worrying risks, associated with such provisions." [1]
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... the poorest regions of the country - a region that sorely needs the economic benefits this operation can contribute - and future jobs in addition to the economic activity and social programs that would ...
... investment over human rights and nature. The Public-Private Partnerships are a new face of privatization of goods and services. Instead of expanding and distributing the benefits, they concentrate them, ...
... in Peru, there has been a debate about activities that are essential and those that can be suspended by quarantine. In this process, social organizations denounced the benefits granted mining companies, ...