Multiple Countries Rejecting Investor State Dispute Settlement
By Janet M Eaton, Phd. April 12th, 2012
There appears to be a growing awareness that NAFTA-style foreign investor privileges and ...
... legislature has made multiple attempts to repeal the 2003 mining ban and recently rejected the Popular Initiative – without legislative debate. This caused massive social upheaval in the last few weeks ...
... improperly withheld information about the government’s support for Goldcorp. This comes after multiple accusations of human rights abuses directed against the Vancouver-based company, stretching back years. ...
... Exchange, OceanaGold disclosed that it had multiple meetings with Philippine government officials in December to finalize the terms of the FTAA renewal.
It also said the renewal is expected to be endorsed ...
... leaks from the waste disposal pond could pollute well water, as well as a creek that runs by her family’s home, particularly since the mine has broken environmental laws multiple times. For now, she’s ...
The State
Sammy
A gold mine that is seeking to expand in Lancaster County has again drawn state scrutiny for violating environmental rules, this time over excessive discharges of cyanide, a potentially ...
... the company’s gold-mining activities.
The company used an accredited independent laboratory to test all water in and around the operation for multiple trace elements, including lead, monthly, and the ...
... the Haile mine $11,200 for multiple violations, including the release of thallium, a metal used to make rat poison. In December, the agency said it had fined the Haile Gold Mine minerals laboratory, which ...
... of these are bilateral investment treaties (BITs) concluded between two states. There are also multilateral investment treaties concluded between multiple parties, such as the Energy Charter Treaty.
Importantly, ...
... was operated on the throat for a tumor, and the money saved helps us because we take her to a private doctor every month”.
According to the 2019 Survey of Households and Multiple Purposes (Encuesta de ...
... the multiple measures applied in favor of former public officials and business executives implicated in high-impact corruption cases and who have been released by the justice in the application of the ...
... barricade against Australian-Canadian mining company Oceanagold, which continued to operate despite its expired permit.
The organization, tied up with multiple environment organizations, LGU, provincial ...
... 32 people, including one man who died three years before the alleged incidents, have been charged with multiple offences and the community’s grassroots group falsely accused of ties to organized crime. ...
... supporting the communities in which we work with multiple social works…our company has already done works that exceed a million dollars for the benefit of the most needy inhabitants.”
“Our company respects ...
... rendering security measures in his favor ordered by the IAHRC inadequate to guarantee his life. Hehas been subject to surveillance and harassment by the paramilitary group La Confianza; on multiple occasions ...
Leon Dulce
Bulatlat
A complex array of multiple crises slowly brewing for four years breached the tipping point and inundated the Philippines in just the last four and a half months. This is the story ...
by Jen Moore - inequality.org
Global South Communities affected by mining face multiple pandemics - health, economic, violence, militarization and corporate capture
Over the years, the mining industry ...
... crime groups have caused the loss of jobs, the execution of multiple crimes against people and their property. Moreover, these actions intend to turn the region into an area controlled by criminals”.
With ...
... BY-SA 3.0).
“The latest EJAtlas map documents serious violence at multiple Pan American Silver mine sites from Mexico to Peru, including how affected communities have faced harassment, threats, and criminalization,” ...
... on the 13th to the 15th of November, 2019. For years, defenders belonging to the alliance have raised concerns about the impacts of the mining industry that violate multiple human rights and cause irreversible ...