Salvadoran Mining Struggles are Pertinent to Wisconsin
by A. David Dahmer,
April 25, 2012
Jan Morrill, of the National Roundtable Against Metallic Mining, is on a national tour talking about ...
Lucha Continental: Lazos Anti-Mineros de Wisconsin y El Salvador
Febrero, 2012
English Version
La lucha contra la minería se está intensificando en el estado de Wisconsin, EEUU. El jueves 26 ...
... until the 1970s, when Commerce Group Corp. of Waukesha, Wisconsin, started operating the mine, turning the San Sebastián River waters orange from the chemicals, including cyanide, arsenic, and mercury, ...
... remediation of acid drainage resulting from their activities in the area. The San Sebastian mine was abandoned by Commerce Group Corporation (CGC), a mining company based in Wisconsin, US, after the Ministry ...
... Wisconsin-based Commerce Group Corp purchased a gold mine near the San Sebastian River in El Salvador and contaminated the water. Now, according to Lita Trejo, a native Salvadoran and school worker in ...
... itself, nothing is more precious than water. Just ask the people of El Salvador. Nearly 30 years ago, the Wisconsin-based Commerce Group Corp purchased a gold mine near the San Sebastian River in El ...
... to keep going,” said Escobar, in reference to Commerce Group Corp., a Wisconsin-based outfit that stopped mining for gold in San Sebastian in 2006 after permit difficulties. “My kids never get better—they’re ...
... by another case. Commerce Group is a Wisconsin-based company that operated the San Sebastian mine in La Unión department in eastern El Salvador. It used the Central American Free Trade Agreement to demand ...
... government acceded to public pressure and stopped issuing mining exploration and exploitation permits pending an environmental impact assessment. As a result two mining corporations, one based in Wisconsin, ...
... moratorium, two mining corporations (Commerce Group based in Wisconsin, US, and Pacific Rim Mining, based in British Columbia, Canada), are suing the current government for over US$ 400 million under the ...
... Sebastian mine. In 1977, a Milwaukee, Wisconsin-based mining company called Commerce Group closed its operations there. In the years since, bedrock exposed during mining caused acid drainage, which has ...
... acceded to public pressure and stopped issuing mining exploration and exploitation permits pending an environmental impact assessment. As a result two mining corporations, one based in Wisconsin, US, ...
The state of Wisconsin’s mining legislation is some of the strongest in the country and the world. Their “prove it first” law requires mining companies to show that mining in metallic sulfides has been ...
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Solidarity from 3,000 Miles Away
Last winter, when environmental activists and members of the community of San Sebastian heard about the struggles in Wisconsin to defeat legislation that would pave the ...
U.S. TRADE DEALS MINE GREED NOT GOLD
By Dominique Paul Noth Editor, Labor Press Posted June 8, 2012 Wisconsin’s myriad issues with businesses controlling mining legislation may not yet make the ...
... members of the Midwest Coalition against Lethal Mining (MCALM) and U.S.-El Salvador Sister Cities in anticipation of the imminent news. In a show of solidarity of community organizer from Wisconsin, ...
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If no mining company has been able to meet the standards of Wisconsin’s mining moratorium law, it does not mean the law is flawed and in need of revision. It means the mining industry’s claim of being ...