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Andrew Duffy
First published in: http://www.miningnews.net/storyview.asp?storyid=824242341#
The Maritime Union of Australia is joining a global day of action today, opposing OceanaGold’s continued ...
... of fresh water due to its release of acid mine drainage.” Organized around the slogan “Water is more important than gold,” activists succeeded in getting the mining ban passed and thereby ensured the ecological ...
... was supposed to be a breath of fresh air. But there has been far more continuity than change since Trudeau replaced Harper. While Trudeau and his party might pay lip service to environmental and labor ...
... months. One of the impacts was the lack of access to fresh healthy food.
Alison Jovel, a 21-year-old girl from the El Zacamil community in Guacotecti, had visited María Dubón's demonstration plot. Given ...
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Oceanagold’s operations put at least 12 species of plants and animals in grave danger, Macassey-Pickard said. One animal is a snail found in Hauraki Gulf, the world’s only bioluminescent freshwater species. ...
... activities. They wanted proper consultation and to protect their river – a vital source of freshwater for the community.
People from the surrounding communities quickly came to show their support. At ...
... once the company arrives. "Not only do these companies bring rupture of the society and of the forms of governance, but they also begin to dry up springs, sources of fresh water, and other sources of contaminated ...
... of the main observations regarding the Quellaveco project has to do with the high water consumption that the operation projects (22 million m3 of freshwater per year). Added to this are the potential impacts ...
... Lempa River, the most important fresh water supply for Salvadorans.
"We have found that lead exceeds international water quality standards. This is already an existing danger for the aquatic life of ...
... extraction (compared with mine development or during an environmental spill), possibly because fresh water is not much used during recovery processes.
Overall, we observed that the operational expansion, ...
... every cropping. He could always catch dalag and eels in a nearby river. Every morning, fresh air coming down from the mountain greeted him.
From time to time, he would join his neighbors in small-scale ...
... Court to protect wetlands that are the source of the country’s precious freshwater have triggered a spate of ISDS claims under the Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement. These, and similar cases, have sparked ...
... the devastating impact that mining would have on El Salvador´s scarce freshwater resources, took to the streets and marched to the to the Legislative Assembly in support of the bill; and policy decision-makers ...
... has been increasingly vocal about a dire human rights situation in this country: the access to fresh water. In 2017, the archdiocese, along with the Jesuit-run University of Central America, spearheaded ...
... and it has the lowest level of available freshwater per capita in Central America. According to the Global Water Partnership, the country also suffers from a clear trend toward water stress, a situation ...
... which provides fresh water to over half the country’s population. The peril of gold mining is multi-fold: industrial mining requires cyanide to separate the gold from the surrounding rock, and toxic substances ...
... Mexico
Freshwater Action Network, México
Instituto Mexicano para el Desarrollo Comunitario AC, Mexico
Justicia, Salud Desarrollo (Bolivia)
Le Groupe d’Appui aux Rapatriés et Réfugiés - GARR, Haiti ...
... there is a lagoon not containing fresh water that could provide relieve from the heat, but rather a toxic lagoon coloured green and yellow with some white shades in it. The trees touched by the water are ...
... Lempa River alone provides fresh water for 50 percent of the population of San Salvador, and 60 percent of fresh water to the rest of the population of El Salvador.
The Salvadoran national government ...