El Salvador: Pacific Rim Mining Co. Shares Up, Tensions Remain High in Cabañas
Written by Jason Wallach
Friday, 18 September 2009 07:57
At the recent Pacific Rim Mining ...
... Derivada [El Tambor] mine, they have not yet received the execution, so the preparatory process cannot begin. This ruling is not yet final because the Constitutional Court must resolve extensions that ...
... its involvement in the Navidad project given clear and unwavering social opposition in Chubut.
Rising tensions and violence against community members is also a concern at the company’s suspended Escobal ...
... strongly oppose the mining projects of Canadian firms Pan American Silver, Yamana Gold, and Eldorado Gold.
Tensions resulting from mining projects are running high in the country. Mining and real estate ...
... to continue operating in the Philippines. This raised tensions with local governments, which wanted mining operations halted to curb the spread of COVID-19.
Last October, Secretary of Finance Carlos ...
... to the mine before Pan American Silver owned it nor the continuing tensions, according to Environmental Justice Atlas.
“What a wonderful outlook for the years to come!” Beaty said in his introduction ...
... an example of the tensions caused in Central America by metals mining, an activity that has been ongoing in the area, albeit in a rudimentary fashion, since the time of Spanish colonialism in the sixteenth ...
... surrounding its El Dorado mining project.
Divided loyalties generated tensions and by 2007 environmental defenders began to report anonymous death threats against their lives and the lives of their relatives. ...
... In 2018 the panorama would have been even worse, if El Salvador had given into the pretensions of transnational mining companies to exploit gold and silver in the northern part of the country.
Given ...
... our governments are giving in concession large extensions of land to transnational corporations.
The context of violence, stigma and criminalization to which we, women who fight from our territories ...
... threats These crimes have never been fully investigated.
“At the same time that the El Dorado Foundation’s activities could raise the stakes and stir up tensions again locally, they gloss over the negative ...
... mining and we feel it is important to keep alive the memory of those who died defending the environment”
But divided loyalties generated tensions in the communities surrounding the mining project and ...
... 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 ...
... of Ottawa, the report highlights the tensions between El Salvador’s relationship with foreign investors and a thriving environmental movement that is promoting a bold new vision for the country’s freshwater ...