... microfinances, organic agriculture, leadership training, youth programs, and women’s empowerment. An Historic Success Their most public success began in 2006 with their resistance to a Canadian-Australian ...
... September 2013 PacificRim, the company that had filed an Investor State Dispute Settlement case against El Salvador for $300m had been brought out by OceanaGold, an Australian Canadian company whose headquarters ...
... companies.
A case in point is one of the Philippines' largest open pit mines: that of Australian-Canadian mining giant OceanaGold in the municipality of Didipio in Nueva Vizcaya. OceanaGold has been ...
... to deal with,” he says.
Pacific Rim was acquired in 2013 by the Australian OceanaGold for just $10 million. The International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes dismissed the company’s lawsuit ...
... showing disdain for the clear message that Salvadorans have sent about the mining-free future they want,” said Manuel Pérez-Rocha of the Institute for Policy Studies.
In Melbourne, where the Canadian-Australian ...
... by Canadian Pacific Rim, and now by Australian Oceana Gold.
Pacific Rim/OceanaGold filed a claim for $250 million US, to the Salvadoran State in 2009, in order to obtain a permit to operate the El Dorado ...
... mining activities of the very same Australian-Canadian mining giant, OceanaGold, that sued El Salvador in an effort to mine gold there. As a result, OceanaGold has become a symbol of irresponsible mining ...
... against Metallic Mining and President of CRIPDES (Association for the development of El Salvador)
OceanaGold, an Australian company, bought shares valued $10.2 millions of dollars from Pacific Rim, a ...
Francisco Coto - La Opinion
For 13 years, Vidalina Morales and other environmental activists, led constant fight against a Canadian/Australian mining company which threatened the north of El Salvador. ...
P. Cabezas
Members of the National Roundtable Against Metallic Mining demanded the immediate removal of Australian/Canadian OceanaGold mining company of El Salvador after the Attorney General's Office ...
... made history, becoming the first country to ban metal mining outright, after a World Bank tribunal rejected last October a US$250 million lawsuit launched against the government by Canadian-Australian ...
... (the Philippines endured U.S. colonization as well), and both have been brutally victimized by an Australian mining company called OceanaGold.
For the past 12 years, Salvadoran communities, social organizations, ...
... water source. The company sued the government for $250 million under free trade rules, a suit that only grew after the Australian-Canadian company OceanaGold acquired Pacific Rim.
The legal dispute turned ...
... of 2016.
We also learned that in the final months, the mining company (now OceanaGold, the Canadian/Australian company that purchased Pac Rim Cayman and thus its lawsuit against El Salvador) attempted ...
... went on the Water Not Gold Tour of Australia in 2013. In collaboration with Australian trade unions and other civil society groups, she spent two weeks there spreading the story of the impact this Australian ...
... Australian-Canadian mining company has been attempting to get its controversial El Dorado gold mining project off the ground in El Salvador.
Carlos Padilla, governor of the Philippines province of Nueva ...
... (originally owned by Pacific Rim before being acquired by Australian-Canadian mining giant OceanaGold in 2013) in the northern province of Cabañas became the epicenter of the conflict. Between 2009-2011, four ...
...
Despite the fact that there is a national consensus among communities, civil society organizations, government institutions, and political parties for a mining prohibition, the Australian-Canadian company ...
... the Canadian miner Pacific Rim, now owned by the Australian Ocean Gold, which claimed compensation of 250 million dollars from the Salvadorean government.
The case dates back to 2009 when Canadian miner ...
... ruled in October 2016 in favor of El Salvador and against the Canadian miner Pacific Rim, now owned by the Australian Oceana Gold, which claimed compensation from the Salvadoran government for 250 million ...