... lobbying and local patronage, rather than meet regulatory requirements and respect communities, could have fueled corruption.
Any profits from the El Dorado project would mainly be returned to the company ...
... crisis if drastic measures are not taken to reverse environmental degradation caused by pollution, deforestation and the chronic dependence on carbon fuels, pesticides and other agro toxics. In 2010, a ...
... cases would likely increase further under the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), given many of these countries’ reliance on extractive industries.
In six TPP countries, fuels and minerals make ...
... Our concerns are particularly fueled by the fact that approval for legislation to prohibit Metal Mining and the General Water Law, aimed at reversing environmental vulnerability and water scarcity, is ...
... America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) will fuel demands by many in Congress that the Obama administration alter the foreign investor terms in three North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)-style trade ...
... fuel tankers in the mining site; a local leader was arrested but also bailed out the following day.
Gina Lopez’s ‘maverick leadership” remembered
A posthumous award was also given to late Regina Paz ...
... fueled by foreign investors and the Honduran government. “We are in danger daily — all the leaders of the Garífuna community, all the defendants of the land in Honduras,” says Carla Garcia, international ...