... for justice mechanisms accessible to communities affected by Canadian large-scale miners.
A core concern was the need to come up with a comprehensive pool of knowledge and information that campaigners ...
... plateau where the mine entrance used to be, and from where open tunnels still lead into the mountain. Artisanal miners have built shelters out of wooden posts, under shady aluminum roofs: with hammocks ...
... For miners, investors, and artisans, few things are more precious than gold. But for human life itself, nothing is more precious than water. Just ask the people of El Salvador. Nearly 30 years ago, the ...
... Focus and the Nation, The Epoch Times: The Fight to Keep Toxic Mining—and the World Bank—Out of El Salvador For miners, investors, and artisans, few things are more precious than gold. But for human life ...
... Rim Mining Corporation. Like them, communities in the Philippines have experienced the devastating impacts on water supplies, the health impacts among miners and mining communities, the increasing conflict, ...
... leaving the international miners empty handed. This assumes the two sides do not settle before a ruling, as OceanaGold has said it would prefer.
Even if El Salvador wins the case, the country is still ...
... covers the dried silt and rocks of their abandoned operation, and the artesian miners now illegally working the tunnels warn of arsenic contamination in parts of the mine. The pollution from the company’s ...
... reiterated that the miners didn’t have authorization to use machines or explosives to extract gold from the San Sebastian mines.
The authorities themselves confirmed that at that moment they didn’t take ...
U.S. and Canadian Press Coverage:
Reuters Canada: El Salvador Says Panel Rejects Complaint from Canadian Miner
Reuters: Canadian Miners Complaint Can Proceed Under El Salvador Law
CNBC: BRIEF-Pac ...
... Ethical Society Global Connections Committee
The Midwest Coalition Against Lethal Mining
National Lawyers Guild
Miners and the Environment
In Canada
Mining Watch Canada
Council of Canadians ...