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1. For grassroots organizations, the fight to protect water and local communities continues, now on a larger scale: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); TELESUR For grassroots organizations, the fight to protect water and local communities continues, now on a larger scale. After El Salvador won a decade-long legal battle against mining company OceanaGold on ...; Created on 10 November 2016
2. El Salvador’s Historic Metal Mining Ban Is in Danger: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... mining industry puts even more pressure on the country’s water supplies. In 2013, Oxfam warned that the “development of large-scale metallic mining [in El Salvador] would further contribute to the deficiency ...; Created on 06 April 2023
3. In Guatemala, Harris Should Address U.S. Policies That Put Corporations Over People: (Mining and Human Rights); ... such as the Central America–Dominican Republic Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR), which have been imposed on Guatemalans. This framework favors the development of large-scale mining and energy projects that ...; Created on 07 June 2021
4. Green group supports ban on open-pit mining, protection of 'no mining zones: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... reform and rural development, and genuine sustainable development in order to translate mining into a truly just and green economic recovery," it added. The group cited the large-scale mining operations ...; Created on 27 May 2021
5. Scientists, fishers say new mining deals to cause more damage than good: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... fooled by the pretext that reopening our natural resources to large-scale mining would help revive the pandemic-battered economy as it would inflict serious damage than repair.” Environment defenders, ...; Created on 24 May 2021
6. Community and environmental concerns not “pertinent” to Pan American Silver’s business: (Mining and Human Rights); ... ban by prohibiting all large-scale metalliferous mining activity at every stage including prospection and exploration, not only exploitation. However, under increasing pressure from industry, the Chubut ...; Created on 17 May 2021
7. Why Canada is at the centre of global mining atrocities: (Mining and Human Rights); ... benefits are seen by the people of the Philippines. In fact, poverty rates are actually higher in provinces with large-scale mining projects, according to Asuncion. Claver said that international mining ...; Created on 12 May 2021
8. Environmental activists are being killed in Honduras over their opposition to mining: (Regional News); ... criminalized by the Honduran government for defending the Guapinol River against the environmental impacts of a new iron oxide mine in the Carlos Escaleras National Park. So far, at least eight people ...; Created on 06 May 2021
9. Philippines' Duterte lifts ban on new mining deals: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... People's Network for the Environment said the decision was "a disaster upon disaster because the Mining Act of 1995 is still in place." "We cannot allow this deluge of destructive large-scale mining when ...; Created on 05 May 2021
10. ‘Complete turnaround’: Philippines’ Duterte lifts ban on new mining permits: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... to clear ancestral domain lands for mining companies, particularly small-scale Chinese firms with pending mining applications. Since 2000, Chinese investments in the Philippine mining sector have been ...; Created on 15 April 2021
11. US Senators introduce bill to tackle corruption & rights violations in Honduras - cite Guapinol case: (Mining and Human Rights); GuapinolResiste Read complete bill, refering to arbitrary detention of Guapinol River Defenders and illegal mining in Carlos Escaleras National Park here. Introduction comes as Honduran President ...; Created on 23 February 2021
12. The trial for Guapinol water defender Jeremías Martínez begins today in Tegucigalpa, Honduras: (Mining and Human Rights); ... 25. Timeline In April 2013, Emco Mining (now Inversiones Los Pinares) requested two mining concessions in the Montaña de Botaderos Carlos Escaleras Mejía National Park. On December 16, 2013, the ...; Created on 22 February 2021
13. Gold mine fined $100,000. Toxic air pollution found at big mine near tiny town: (OceanaGold); ... Mine, owned by the Australian-company OceanaGold, is an open-pit digging operation and one of the largest gold mines in the eastern United States, comparable in scale to some western U.S. mines.. Located ...; Created on 12 February 2021
14. The Status of Investor-State Arbitration in Latin America in 2021: (ISDS); ... decision to interrupt the progress of a large-scale irrigation project. Peru has been threatened with additional cases in relation to a gas-distribution concession, the operation of a port on its southern ...; Created on 21 January 2021
15. From dreams of gold to organic agriculture: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... Membreño family has managed to transform their mid-scale farm from traditional to organic agriculture, their production allows them to sell their products in different communities in Cabañas. “All this ...; Created on 05 January 2021
16. Honduran justice denies defenders of the Guapinol river to wait for their trial in freedom: (Regional News); ... to a mining concession for the exploitation of iron oxide of 200 hectares within the boundaries of the Carlos Escaleras National Park. The defenders, who oppose the mining project of the Inversiones ...; Created on 28 December 2020
17. The hidden connection between a US steel company and the controversial Los Pinares mine in Honduras: (Regional News); ... planned mine in the Carlos Escaleras National Park, in the northern part of this Central American nation. The conflict has left a wake of people dead, injured and imprisoned. According to public records ...; Created on 28 November 2020
18. Anti-mining community, Gina Lopez awarded as heroes for the environment: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... put their lives on the line against large-scale mining. The United Organization of Didipio Residents was one of the organizations recognized in the sixth Gawad Bayani ng Kalikasan for the successful ...; Created on 07 October 2020
19. After trying to protect water sources, these Hondurans have been held without bail for more than a year.: (Mining and Human Rights); ... Mount “Carlos Escaleras” National Park. While these eight remain imprisoned, five others, who initially had the charges against them dropped after voluntarily presenting themselves to the courts, were ...; Created on 25 September 2020
20. One year on and Honduran Environmental Defenders still in jail without trial: (Mining and Human Rights); ... Honduras. The sign in the background says "Guapinol is resisting". Photo: Giulia Vuillermoz Early in 2018, the crystalline Guapinol River that runs through Carlos Escaleras Mejia National Park, in northern ...; Created on 01 September 2020

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