... brought the Las Pavas plant to its current condition.
Just by looking at the pictures, I told them, “How can this be? Can you imagine the health damage they have been doing to our people? That's why ...
... lawsuits brought before international arbitration tribunals by private companies, claiming more than US$3 billion in compensation.
Citing force majeure because of the COVID-19 health crisis , Bolivia ...
... is scary to think what further harm might be brought to communities from more protection of this sort,” Ellen Moore, International Mining Campaign Manager, Earthworks.
KCA’s lawsuit is emblematic of ...
... annual average damages brought about by climate-related disasters rising from USD 2.8 billion to 3.1 billion.
2. We have consistently placed second among the top countries with the most air pollution-related ...
... Extractive industries are demanding at least another $73 billion in 59 known pending cases, only five of which target rich country governments. Billions more are at stake in arbitration suits brought by ...
... a lawsuit brought forwards by Pacific Rim, and have El Salvador set up an example around the work as the first country to completely ban metal mining activities in its territory.
After a 12 twelve ...
... right to water, the public management of this natural asset, the vision of the basin, citizen participation, and access universal to drinking water and sanitation.
The proposal was brought to the Legislative ...
... El Salvador). With reference to particular examples in Latin America they discussed arbitration suits (Investor State Dispute Settlement) which have been brought by extractive industries in relation to ...
Gloria Silvia Orellana - Diario Co Latino
In El Salvador, the commemoration of “World Environment Day” of 2020 is marked by the ravages that the tropical storms Amanda and Cristobál have brought on ...
... currently facing investor-state suits in which companies are demanding a staggering total of $5.97 billion. Two of these were brought by mining companies over environmental protections.
Shortly before ...
... for Policy Studies has previously reported on. The Extraction Casino study looked at 38 cases that mining companies have brought with increasing frequency against Latin American governments since 1998. ...
... according to Aduviri, Luque opted for a personalist management style. This decision led him away from the program plan of the My Region movement, which brought Aduviri and Luque to power.
The regional ...
We analyzed 38 multi-million dollar claims brought by the mining industry using ISDS and other investment protection laws; in over half, communities are fighting to protect Indigenous territory, water, ...
... go to jail, my son is not a thief, he is not corrupt, he is not a murderer,” he said, lamenting the great hardships that this process has brought on his entire family.
Also present was Patricio Illacutipa ...
... The case continues the case brought against the mine by lawyers from the Center for Legal-Environmental and Social Action (CALAS), which argued that the mine is illegal, and that the license for the mine ...
... September 2013 PacificRim, the company that had filed an Investor State Dispute Settlement case against El Salvador for $300m had been brought out by OceanaGold, an Australian Canadian company whose headquarters ...
... of gold in El Salvador, so there’s a lot of pressure to mine but the social movement brought everybody together and it started with popular education.”
Esty Dinur writes about issues that matter and ...
... and witnesses. Commented MiningWatch Canada spokesperson Catherine Coumans, “We have pushed hard for an Ombudsperson that will have robust powers to independently investigate complaints brought by people ...
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It is an activism that has brought both death threats and triumphs to Morales, who arrived this week in Los Angeles to receive the Environmental Justice award from the organisation CARECEN in representation ...
... them what mining exploitation would bring. At the meeting the company workers were told that they community was not interested in the form of development that ultimately brought death, but they continued ...