... decades of unresolved ecological degradation at Canadian mining sites, and advocates say they worry it will continue to worsen under Duterte. Coumans said mining is particularly dangerous in the Philippines ...
... to mining operations in the area.
OGPI has also failed to address the unresolved human rights issues in its operations, with conclusive findings by the CHR presented in its resolution in 2011. The ...
... Lima, La Unión, need to be addressed and resolved. The members of the National Roundtable against Metal Mining assured that the river in San Sebastián community, has been contaminated with acid drainage. ...
... Disputes published a working paper that proposes several reforms with respect to TPF.
Tackling third-party funding will not resolve the many other outstanding problems with the ISDS system, but it is ...
... incurred along the way, including the unresolved assassinations of four anti-mining activists in 2009. Morales reminded those present that “We cannot talk about the 25th anniversary of Radio Victoria and ...
... at the supreme court, if that is not resolved by national institutions, then we are prepared to go to international tribunals” said Freddy Flores a leader of the local Community Development Association. ...
... to pay.
The suit — and lack of a thorough government investigation into the murders — strengthened the resolve of the anti-mining movement and gave them the moral high ground. Hundreds of local and national-level ...
... ruling.
First we should recall that during the seven years of the trial, the country invested more than US$12 million to defend itself, using financial resources that could have been used to solve social ...
... that Metal Mining could be a development vehicle for El Salvador, and that investment in that industry would solve the fiscal problems, as heard through the American Chamber of Commerce at the mining conference ...
... remains unresolved, even the threat of such lawsuits can make governments reluctant to enact meaningful safeguards for public health and the environment. The legal case has dragged on in the courts for ...
... for mining operation and another 12 requests for extensions from companies that are already operating in the country. For its part, the Ministry of Environment has left 18 requests for mining permits unresolved ...
... programs. Furthermore, in 2011 he pressured El Salvador’s Ministry of Labor to dissolve the union at an AVX-Kyocera plant that manufactures SIM cards for his phone companies. Workers had formed the union ...
... and not the much larger amount of US$250 million for gold they have yet to extract, McCrum remarked: “This is a question to be resolved by the arbitration panel”.
OceanaGold ensures that they complied ...
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As the world looks for innovative solutions to solve the rapidly worsening water crisis, two Salvadoran experts are touring Canada this week to ...
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Environmental organizations poised to have a ratification vote before the legislature dissolves on April 30th.
An open letter addressed to to president of El Salvador from the UN’s Special ...
... a number of public servants would only be able to approve mining operations once the issues identified in the Strategic Environmental Assessment have been resolved.
But this and other proposals ...
... could still be months away: internal regulation do not give ICSID specific timelines to issue a resolution.
One party believes, based on the time ICSID panelists have taken resolve other claims in this ...
... and companies to resolve investment disputes and is loosely affiliated to the World Bank.
Much is at stake for El Salvador. Not only does the case touch on the sovereign right of a country to determine ...
... Disputes (ICSID), where the case will be resolved. ICSID is an independent tribunal at the World Bank, and has been widely criticized for its notoriously opaque processes. In 2012, ICSID found in favor ...
... that this government will address and solve many of their problems. In that effort, we will join other institutional actors to take collective action across the government because environmental protection ...