... countries, not only with mining companies but also with hydroelectric power companies.
“It’s not fair, and the worst thing is that they never asked us if we wanted these companies to come here,” Dávila ...
... suspended an exploitation permit extended to the company and asked for an environmental remediation plan to deal with a permanent leak of acid drainage that affected the local river and underground water ...
... citizens among its ranks. In 2007, the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of El Salvador asked the government to prohibit mining. The leftist Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) party, which was ...
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 ...
... Ombudsman Office, the Central American University, and the Catholic Church, through Archbishop Jose Luis Escobar, joined the chorus and asked to be part of the discussion to ensure that legislators commit ...
... shared objectives.”
Cabezas agreed, “when donors and development agencies are involved, they often want to determine strategy, and this sometimes causes conflicts”. When asked about how this was overcome ...
... another audience member, Michael Klug, asked one of the GoldCorp reps if Salvadoran subsistence farmers should accept the El Dorado mine in their community, he backed off and said, “no,” while still extolling ...
... other employment options,” Guevara de Medrano said when asked about the persistence of artisanal mining. She also acknowledged the community needs to reach out to the güiriseros and incorporate them into ...
... asked the legislative assembly to grant them an audience where they are permitted to exhibit and argue the necessity of the ban on metal mining in El Salvador and, in addition, to request the discussion ...
* Teresa Alvarado: Transparencia Activa
The inhabitants of Cinquera also asked the city council to call a popular vote so that the citizens of the town can decide through a vote if they are in favor of, ...
... to an IPS request for comments.
The organization also asked the attorney general to guarantee the payment of eight million, by confiscating the assets of the company, and that legislators initiate a debate ...
... in the department of Cabañas were asked to participate in a public referendum, to be held in the next months, to give their opinion in favor or against metal mining within their territory.
Cinquera is ...
... of the defense of El Salvador, so the defense team of Folley Hoag has asked the court to issue a supplementary decision to the ruling from October 14.
Before the end of the period for requesting amendments ...
... we asked him how he’d come to opposing mining. He pointed to our water bottle and said “Just like you, water is our priority.”
In the years since, we’ve met hundreds of people in Cabañas who have risked ...
... of the National Roundtable Against Mining in El Salvador. “We have asked our allies around the world to denounce the ICSID for pandering to corporate interests and to remind the company that mining-affected ...
... immediately a a favorable resolution in the impending case of Pacific Rim Mining vs El Salvador.
A statement delivered simultaneously to offices in San Salvador, Washington and Melbourne asked the World ...
... immediately a a favorable resolution in the impending case of Pacific Rim Mining vs El Salvador.
A statement delivered simultaneously to offices in San Salvador, Washington and Melbourne asked the World ...
... Mining stressed that despite the huge campaign ran by mining companies, environmental organizations continue to fight for the rights of the inhabitants of the communities of Cabañas.
He asked the new ...
... stored in the containers, no one really knows. “We have often asked authorities in the capital [San Salvador] to carry out a waste disposal – without success.”
“We fear that one day the container will ...
... claims before the panel.
At the end of these allegations, Luis Parada affirms that they asked the tribunal to consider the re-opening of the interim decision that was issued two years before, since time ...