... ruling suspending the Escobal mining license, in response to the CALAS claim. Tahoe places the mine on stand-by and says it will appeal.
September 10: Guatemala’s supreme court reinstates the Escobal ...
... 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 ...
... the state of siege that the president Giammattei decreed and also called for the execution of pending eviction orders. Last year, when Jimmy Morales restricted rights in the North-East region of the country, ...
... possible to have El Salvador as the first country that prohibits metal mining on the planet. It was an important achievement. But we still have pending debts at the level of justice in El Salvador and ...
... practical effects. To give but one example, no Mexican company has ever won a case versus the United States or a European country, but it has lost many cases and many more are pending. Also, it is expected ...
... justice groups doing similar work. The mine in Guatemala remains closed, pending a new consultation process.
Pan American Silver, one of the world’s largest mining companies, operates eight mines in ...
... to pending environmental remediation and implementing alternative economic activities for artisanal miners, known as "güiriseros".
El Salvador made history in March 2017, when the Legislative Assembly ...
... of cross-border natural assets.
The study is pending publication in the coming months.
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Translation: Giada Ferrucci
Translated from: http://acafremin.org/es/noticias-regionales/el-salvador/425-estudio-de-mineria-refleja-el-peligro-de-la-mina-cerro-blanco-2 ...
... Wednesday in Mexico City.
Until now, Mexico has had to pay transnational companies more than 242 million dollars for 9 resolutions that went against the country, and it has another 12 pending lawsuits, ...
... ($32.4 million US) to two North American companies (RDV and TECO) that sued the country internationally, and refrained from suspending the works of the Marlin Mine (owned by mining giant GoldCorp) to avoid ...
... and it failed to do so. As such, the Roundtable against Metal Mining has asked the new government of Nayib Bukele to resume the actions still pending from the approval of the Metallic Mining Ban.
According ...
... processing 20 more applications. Altogether, including the pending applications, they cover 11,143 square kilometers, or 8.55 percent of the country.
El Salvador made international history by being the ...
... and San José de Golfo, north of Guatemala City. The suspension remains in effect, pending a final decision from the Constitutional Court. Even after the Supreme Court ordered the suspension, the company ...
... that Colombia currently faces over US$18 billion dollars in threatened or pending suits, especially related to protecting Indigenous territory and fragile páramo ecosystems, which provide water to over ...
... representatives in Guatemala are currently under criminal investigation in Guatemala for illegally operating the mine, ignoring the initial court order suspending operations for lack of consultation. In ...
... of the Nevada-based company’s mining licence, pending consultation with Indigenous Xinca residents of the surrounding area.
Tahoe Resources subsidiary Minera San Rafael had argued that Xinca people were ...
... World Bank, and is still pending a decision.
The Pac Rim vs. El Salvador case isn’t the first time that a company has used a free trade agreement to defend their rights to investment.
In 2000, the ...
... prohibition approved in March 2016 and to shelve all pending requests related to the mining file, at the same time, the Environment and Climate Change Commission, ECCC, moved to reopen a long overdue discussion ...
... centers", he argued.The pending demands filed by mining TNCs against Latin American countries, explained the researcher, reach the amount of 18 billion dollars, which he considered a stratospheric figure. ...
... projects said that some political battles are still pending to ensure the long-term sustainability of the mining prohibition. “First we need to ensure that the Attorney General’s office investigate the ...