... metal mining, allows us to be vigilant for those companies that are out there, waiting for a way to come back. The fight has been strong in the department and in the country with the Metallic Mining Prohibition ...
... to the Ministry of Economy, fifteen mining projects have ceased to be active in El Salvador, but since March 2017, date of the approval of the Metallic Mining Prohibition Act by the Legislative Assembly, ...
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In addition, they asked the Ministries of Environment and Economy to develop a plan that guarantees the prohibition of metal mining in the country.
"We ask the Minister of Environment and Natural Resources, ...
... tribunal in 2016, and to the eventual prohibition of large-scale mining in El Salvador in 2017. We are giving back our solidarity to the people of Nueva Vizcaya to their success of mounting a people’s ...
* Edgardo Ayala - Contrapunto
Despite of a two year mining prohibition, the ghost of mining does not fade away for communities in El Salvador that are exposed to crossborder contamination that may cause ...
... 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 ...
Andrés McKinley - UK LAB
On March 29th, 2017, the small country of El Salvador became the first nation in the world to exercise its sovereign right to say “no” to metallic mining after carefully analyzing ...
... legislators maintain the prohibition of mining.
The closing of the file, however, will not make us lower our guard and we will remain vigilant of any attempt to modify or repeal the law that was approved ...
... which could jeopardize their victory.
A year has passed since the Law against Metallic Mining was approved. The prohibition is a victory resulting from almost 13 years of struggle led by organizations ...
... of the risk that the law could be repealed.
The archbishop of El Salvador, Jose Luis Escobar Alas, a fierce proponent of the prohibition declared during his Sunday March 25th press conference that ...
... for further privatization.
The current legislature, which ends its term on May 1st, approved the Law of Prohibition of metallic mining in El Salvador last March, with 70 votes, after communities threatened ...
... prohibition of mining.
According to the Salvadoran authorities, progress has been made in the area of environmental protection, although they acknowledge that there is still a lot to be done, said ...
... that the problem of mining in El Salvador continues, that is why they must always be ready to fight for the respect of the right to life and apply the prohibition of mining in order to assert the rights ...
... it is conducting education and promotion campaigns about mining. In El Salvador, mining is an industrial activity prohibited by law since March of this year.
The NGOs add that OceanaGold, prior the prohibition ...
... Mining" is not a foreign concept to Rodolfo Calles, of CRIPDES, who argues that the struggle that ended with a prohibition would not be enough to protect the country's natural assets.
"Because our mining ...
... or open pit mining, as well as on various toxic chemicals used in mineral processing.
El Salvador’s prohibition goes further. It’s being noted throughout Latin America, where Canadian mining companies ...
... mining through a local referendum and the Catholic Church of El Salvador had called for massive participation in a public protest to demand legislators to start discussions on the prohibition of mining. ...
... Guillermo Mata, posted a message on his twitter account, where he expressed that the entire population should join the march to demand the prohibition of metal mining.
The left-wing representative also ...
... level organizations pressured for a prohibition on any industrial metal mining in the the country, given its already stressed water supplies, vulnerability to climate change and population density.
Pacific ...
... impacts of mining, and a national march for the prohibition of mining on February 28th.
Following the actions of community, environmental organizations, and church leaders, legislators will be hard-pressed ...