... the 80s, brought Governor Carlos Padilla from Nueva Vizcaya in the Philippines to testify before a legislative committee on the impacts of OceanaGold’s Didipio Mine there. Two Filipino community members ...
... from potential future mining.8
While this was just one of dozens of lawsuits brought by global corporations against governments in this period, it attracted the attention of civil society groups in the ...
... in the world to do so. The historic vote came just six months after a World Bank tribunal ruled in favour of the country’s government in an international investment arbitration case brought by a Canadian ...
... Commission deliberated over the bill. It was later reported by FMLN Representative Guillermo Mata, President of the Environment and Climate Change Commission, that the busloads of people brought by the ...
... and employment brought by mining companies is necessary for the country and that the risks to the environment and population can be managed through technology.
These pro-mining arguments are signs that ...
... the negative consequences are avoided in the future.
Escobar added that he hopes lawmakers support the proposal and propel the bill into law.
But it’s not the first time such a bill has been brought ...
... Sensuntepeque, Cabañas, brought together various non-governmental organizations, community members and relatives of the victims.
Mr. Guevara commented that as relatives of victims, Ramiro Rivera and ...
by Karen Hudlet : Equal Times
In October this year, the World Bank’s International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) decided in favour of El Salvador in a case brought by the US mining ...
... to Washington to receive the Institute for Policy Studies’ Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Award, a prize that brought international recognition to this struggle. Then when we made our first trip to Cabañas ...
... health and safety. A number of such cases brought against Latin American countries at the tribunal involve disputes over mines or oil and gas deposits.
“It is an arbitration mechanism that was set up ...