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1. El Salvador: first anniversary of the mining ban A cause for celebration, but the new law faces dangers: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); Andrés McKinley - UK LAB On March 29th, 2017, the small country of El Salvador became the first nation in the world to exercise its sovereign right to say “no” to metallic mining after carefully analyzing ...; Created on 22 June 2018
2. El Salvador faces mining company: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); The lawsuit was filed as a result of the Salvadoran government’s moratorium on mining. The ruling may not be known until March 2015. By Fernando Santos Castro Translated from http://voces.org.sv/2014/07/17/minera-presiona-al-estado-salvadoreno/ ...; Created on 21 July 2014
3. EARTH DAY 2014: El Salvador faces critical environmental challenges: (Media Releases); FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The United Nations(UN), has called on millions of people who on April 22 will celebrate Earth Day 2014 to focus on celebrating Green Cities to achieve a healthy and sustainable ...; Created on 23 April 2014
4. El Salvador faces "international mafias" in "frivolous" international law suits ...: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); Translated from: http://tinyurl.com/mhvvolz By: Elder Gomez, CoLatino News El Salvador faces an "international mafia" seeking control of the country's natural resources, through "frivolous" legal international ...; Created on 23 October 2013
5. Gold mine expansion could produce $2.5 billion. But environmental problems linger: (OceanaGold); ... rules that are intended to protect the air and water. The mine faces additional penalties for the wastewater discharge violations if the site’s operators don’t improve the mine’s performance, DHEC said. ...; Created on 30 March 2021
6. WATER IS LIFE. CAN WE PROTECT IT?: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... to ban all metals mining to save their rivers. Today the United States faces a similar reckoning as El Salvador. The Texas freeze that left millions without water exposed the desperate need to rein ...; Created on 28 March 2021
7. Reclaim Your Rights: Defend Indigenous People’s Lands: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... million Indigenous Peoples depending on Amazon forest faces the attacks of criminal groups and illegal miners. The oil spill in Coca and Napo river in Ecuador affecting 200,000 Kichwa and Shuar people ...; Created on 17 December 2020
8. Lack of a Water Law prolongs the historical crisis in the country: (Regional News); ... of the population, ”González added. Regarding the historical crisis on access to drinking water that the population faces, González recalled the management of the water crisis last January when the National ...; Created on 17 June 2020
9. New Report Exposes Mining Companies Suing Latin American Countries Where Communities Defend Land and Environment: (FTAs & ISDS); ... that Colombia currently faces over US$18 billion dollars in threatened or pending suits, especially related to protecting Indigenous territory and fragile páramo ecosystems, which provide water to over ...; Created on 03 May 2019
10. Gold, Water and the Struggle for Basic Rights in El Salvador: (General mining reports ); ... and economy. In a country that already faces a water crisis, the El Dorado project could have disastrous effects on the environment and local communities. Therefore, the government has declared a moratorium ...; Created on 23 April 2016
11. Resistance against the bloodsucker: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... days in the life of his family. His brother Marcelo “was one of the most known faces of the protest movement against the mine”. One day, six years ago, the teacher did not return home from school. Miguel ...; Created on 03 January 2016
12. New Laws Seek to Limit Mining in El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... presented the new draft of the law. El Salvador now faces a legal battle in the court of the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (CIADI) in Washington against the Canadian company ...; Created on 02 January 2016
13. Women in Resistance Against the World Bank: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... government of El Salvador faces at the ICSID. Women defenders of natural resources are the same that in everyday life experience the severe shortage and water pollution; women who suffer the serious ...; Created on 11 November 2015
14. Urgent! Strengthening a powerful global voice in defence of life: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... experiences in fighting against the same enemy – OceanaGold. At the end of the talk, a crucial question ensues: What are we going to do to change this reality? The reactions are various: some faces ...; Created on 29 September 2015
15. Salvadorans Warn Canadians About World Bank's Kangaroo Cour: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... laws deemed barriers to profit. And the country could be on the hook for tens of millions more. In a case eerily similar to the one El Salvador faces, Lone Pine Resources is suing Canada for $250 million ...; Created on 18 May 2015
16. Stop the Suits Tour: (Stop the Suits: 2015 Canada Tour); ... case eerily similar to the one El Salvador faces, Lone Pine Resources is suing Canada for $250 million in response to Quebec’s decision to put a moratorium on shale gas mining, better known as fracking. ...; Created on 07 May 2015
17. El Salvador, violence and impunity: (Mining and Human Rights); ... murders, those killed have become known as the “martyrs” of the mining movement, and their faces gaze down from posters in the offices of environmentalists campaigning for a nationwide ban on metallic ...; Created on 13 February 2014
18. ADES and MUFRAS 32 and the communities of Cabañas celebrate the IV Festival for the Human Right to a Healthy Environment: (Mining and Human Rights); ... country faces. Environmental problems have classified us as one of the countries most vulnerable to natural disasters in the world. Because of our geographic location we are affected by a variety of natural ...; Created on 24 September 2012
19. The Salvadoran Government Proposes Suspending Mining in El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... has affected 98% of our rivers, the chronic scarcity of potable water that population faces, as well as the fact that El Salvador is one of the most deforested and densely populated countries in Latin ...; Created on 09 August 2012
20. Mining Ambition Impedes Environmental Justice: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... environment would exceed the multi-million debt that the country currently faces in the lawsuit filed by Pacific Rim. By Ivannia Serrano Translated by Jan Morrill Original in Spanish The last ...; Created on 18 July 2012

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