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1. El Salvador Mulls Total Ban on Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); El Salvador mulls total ban on mining By: Robin Oisín Llewellyn, special to mongabay.com October 22, 2012 On hot days the broken stone and dried up silt from the San Sebastian mine in Eastern El ...; Created on 24 October 2012
2. Is El Salvador preparing to reverse its landmark mining ban?: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... victory, back in 2017, when El Salvador’s government announced it would be the first country in the world to issue a total ban on metal mining. For a half-century, the industry had been dumping waste and ...; Created on 03 April 2023
3. 250+ Groups Call On El Salvador to Drop Charges Against Water Defenders: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... water defenders have pointed out that "the allegations against them have major holes and contradictions, President Bukele's near-total control over both the judiciary and the prosecution casts serious doubt ...; Created on 20 January 2023
4. Scientists, fishers say new mining deals to cause more damage than good: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... made up 0.5% of the total excise taxes and 0.07% of total taxes in 2020. The sector’s annual average share in total employment from 2001 to 2020 was 0.49%. Share of the sector’s foreign direct investments ...; Created on 24 May 2021
5. Reactivation of Cerro Blanco Mining Project: (Mining and Human Rights); ... a press release presenting the results of the drilling programme at the Cerro Blanco project with “three subway and thirteen surface drill holes totalling 4,493 meters.” The Canadian company, Bluestone ...; Created on 06 May 2021
6. Swiss mining transnational Glencore in the Andes: (General mining reports ); ... This mine produced a total of 205,414 fine metric tons of copper in 2018, plus 44,306 fine kilograms of silver and more than 4.1 million grams of fine gold. Its sales in 2016 exceeded $1 billion, making ...; Created on 22 April 2021
7. Canadian Mining Companies Are Devastating The Global South: (Mining and Human Rights); ... mining operations in Peru go far beyond the Bear Creek corporation. The government of Canada estimates that in 2018, Canadian foreign direct investment in Peru totalled $14.2 billion, with most of that ...; Created on 21 January 2021
8. The Status of Investor-State Arbitration in Latin America in 2021: (ISDS); JDSUPRA With a total of 54 cases filed, 2020 was a record year for cases filed under the ICSID Convention, and with a total of 72 treaty-based cases, an important year in general for Investor-State Arbitration. ...; Created on 21 January 2021
9. A Canadian Mining Giant Is Quietly Ramping Up Work in New Zealand. Locals Are Worried: (OceanaGold); VICE Anya Zoledziowski In the latest allegations against Canadian mining, conservationists say new projects could destroy protected lands and further harm endangered species. A Canadian-Australian ...; Created on 17 December 2020
10. The hidden connection between a US steel company and the controversial Los Pinares mine in Honduras: (Regional News); ... Pérez-Facussé couple had granted the total shares of three of their Honduran companies to the Panamanian firms in 2015, according to Honduran public records. One of these companies was Inversiones Los ...; Created on 28 November 2020
11. HONDURAS: Human rights defenders threatened by armed groups during quarantine: (Regional News); ... the territories and attack the defenders, the press release said. A total of 116 organizations from Honduras signed the letter addressed to the National Protection Mechanism for human rights defenders, ...; Created on 31 July 2020
12. The Duterte era: A state of nature under attack: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... country for land and environmental defenders for the first time in this time period, with 157 defenders murdered largely by suspected government armed forces—a number 36 percent larger than the total cases ...; Created on 25 July 2020
13. Corporate Lawsuits Could Devastate Poor Countries Grappling with COVID-19: (FTAs & ISDS); ... to disputes over oil, gas and mining contracts. Extractive industries like mining make up a large share of total claims, often provoked by governments attempting to prevent environmental or public health ...; Created on 23 July 2020
14. Anglo American responses to AGM queries raise more questions than they answer: (Mining and Human Rights); ... of mining projects were allowed to continue. As such, companies like Anglo American have been working with almost total normality while the majority of the population has assumed the costs of quarantine. ...; Created on 22 July 2020
15. With Passage of NAFTA 2.0, Congress Boosts Fossil Fuel Polluters, Particularly in Mexico: (FTAs & ISDS); ... currently facing investor-state suits in which companies are demanding a staggering total of $5.97 billion. Two of these were brought by mining companies over environmental protections. Shortly before ...; Created on 03 May 2020
16. Water, transparency and mining concerns in the Philippines: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... by 2020. This is roughly 0.4% of the total water extraction by the Didipio Mine operations in 2018 and barely 0.15% of the total projected water budget in the Didipio watershed. Hence, while a significant ...; Created on 08 March 2020
17. Land Defenders Are Killed in the Philippines for Protesting Canadian Mining: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... contributed 5 percent—$97 billion—to Canada’s total GDP and held $169 billion in assets overseas. Canada also boasts that the industry has directly or indirectly created 630,000 jobs in urban, rural, and ...; Created on 04 October 2019
18. Mining Grabs Up Land, Deals Blow to Agriculture in Central America: (Background and reports ); ... In Honduras, up to January 2017, 172 mining concessions had been granted, covering a total area of 7,275 square kilometers, equivalent to 6.47 of the country’s territory. In Guatemala, up to the same ...; Created on 07 May 2019
19. More than one hundred organizations reject the unjust payment of USD $31 million to Canadian mining company Bear Creek: (Regional News); ... organizations such as the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) of Washington D.C. , The Democracy Center in Bolivia and MiningWatch Canada. The Sign-On Letter, supported in total by 131 Peruvian and international ...; Created on 16 September 2018
20. THE STRUGGLE FOR GOOD WATER GOVERNANCE CONTINUES IN EL SALVADOR: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... surrounding communities, were found to be suffering from dramatically high levels of lead poisoning. A study carried out by the environmental NGO, UNES, estimated the total cost of environmental damage ...; Created on 27 August 2018

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