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Published: Thursday, 11 September 2014 09:42
Dismantle Corporate Power and End Impunity
Philippine groups express solidarity to people of El Salvador in fight against mining giant Oceana Gold/Pacific Rim Mining Corporation
Alyansa Tigil Mina (Alliance against Mining-Philippines), Lilak (Purple Action for Indigenous Women’s Rights), Focus on the Global South and the EU-ASEAN FTA Campaign Network denounce the bullying of El Salvador by corporate mining giant Oceana Gold/Pacific Rim. We stand in solidarity with the people of El Salvador struggling to push back the large-scale plunder of their gold and natural resources perpetrated by mining corporations.
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Published: Thursday, 11 September 2014 02:07
By Neville Spencer
Fist published in: https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/57280
People gathered outside the World Bank office in Sydney on September 5 to protest the bank’s involvement in an Australian mining company’s attempt to sue the government of El Salvador for US$301 million.
Pacific Rim, a Canadian company that was bought by Australian OceanaGold last year, applied to mine gold in northern El Salvador in 2004. The Salvadoran government refused it permission, arguing the company did not own or have rights to the land it proposed to mine, it did not have environmental permissions and it did not submit a final feasibility study for the project.
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Published: Thursday, 11 September 2014 01:55
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 legal action against the El Salvador government.
The nation is being sued in a World Bank tribunal after it failed to grant a mining permit to OceanaGold subsidiary Pacific Rim.
Protesters usually gather at OceanaGold’s Melbourne office on the last Friday of every month but this new action is part of a number of demonstrations around Australia and the world.
MUA Victoria branch secretary Kevin Bracken said the company was attempting to bully El Salvador into granting a licence.
“The Salvadorian people have spoken and they have chosen clean water for their children over the short-term and limited benefits of a gold mine,” he said.
“OceanaGold should respect that choice and immediately drop the suit.”
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Published: Wednesday, 10 September 2014 15:53
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Published: Wednesday, 10 September 2014 10:19
(Ottawa) Nearly 150,000 people have already signed an online petition directed at the Australian-Canadian firm OceanaGold urging it to drop its suit against El Salvador.
Secret hearings will begin on the case at a little known investment dispute tribunal housed at the World Bank in Washington, on Monday, September 15th.
OceanaGold bought into the suit when it purchased Vancouver-based Pacific Rim Mining at a firesale price last fall. Pacific Rim’s only project in recent years had been to punish El Salvador with legal proceedings for not having granted it a mine permit. The company is suing for $301 million, despite never having fulfilled the basic regulatory requirements to obtain a licence to build its El Dorado gold mine. The government of El Salvador has already spent millions fighting this case — money the tiny Central American country urgently needs for social programs and infrastructure. READ MORE
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Published: Wednesday, 10 September 2014 10:07
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Toronto – Today, dozens of organizations from Canada, El Salvador and around the world will confront Canadian-Australian mining company Oceana Gold, whose subsidiary is suing El Salvador for $301 million (USD). El Salvador’s offence: refusing to a grant a permit to a gold mine that would contaminate 60 per cent of the population’s drinking water.
In October 2013, Oceana Gold acquired Canadian-based Pacific Rim Mining, which was in the midst of a lawsuit. After acquiring the company, Oceana Gold upped its lawsuit from $70 million to $301 million (USD).
In anticipation of next week’s court case – to be heard on Monday, September 15 at the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes in Washington, D.C. – the Council of Canadians, the Latin American Solidarity Network, the Mining Injustice Solidarity Network and others will descend on the company’s Toronto headquarters to present a letter from people affected by the decision. The letter demands that the company withdraw the lawsuit.
The date of the court case, September 15, coincides with El Salvador’s Independence Day, an irony that was not lost on the groups protesting. READ MORE
