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21. Disputes against governments under investment treaties: a growing trend in the mining industry in 2020: (ISDS); ... we first briefly explain what protection under an investment treaty involves before analysing the rise of investment claims in the mining sector in 2020 and its likely continued rise in 2021 and beyond. ...; Created on 06 January 2021
22. Puno: An indefinite strike announced due to mining contamination in the Coata River: (Regional News); Wayka Arsenic and mercury were found in the bodies of people in the districts near the Coata river basin, in the Puno region, which is being contaminated by mining tailings. Local leaders claim that ...; Created on 28 December 2020
23. 2020 in Review: Latin America and Investment Arbitration: (ISDS); ... that the claimants were not nationals of Spain when they made investments in Venezuela; they obtained Spanish citizenship only a few years later. Hence, the respondent argued, the treaty protections did ...; Created on 19 December 2020
24. A Canadian Mining Giant Is Quietly Ramping Up Work in New Zealand. Locals Are Worried: (OceanaGold); ... the moment, Canada has an ombudsperson role, introduced last year, that reviews claims of human and environmental rights abuses by mining and oil and gas companies. But it doesn’t have the authority to ...; Created on 17 December 2020
25. Canadian corporate greed on display in Mexico mining dispute: (Regional News); ... massive, cyanide-laden waste piles, are trying to squeeze the company for more benefits. Adding insult to injury, Milau went so far as to claim that the arsenic that has been found in the community’s water ...; Created on 28 November 2020
26. Mining Injustice Through International Arbitration: (ISDS); ... to the El Tambor gold mine. When unwavering community resistance again forced a halt in operations, the company filed a claim in Guatemalan courts complaining the government had failed to protect its investments. ...; Created on 21 October 2020
27. Thousands of Salvadorans endure COVID-19 without running water to wash their hands: (Regional News); ... of dollars. The plant has been mismanaged over the last 15 years, so now we have an annual deficit of $33 million. The Nayib Bukele administration has claimed that the Las Pavas water plant has ...; Created on 11 September 2020
28. 5 Garífuna Leaders Are Still Missing in Honduras: (Regional News); ... only state officials, authorities, and health workers to move freely. Relatives of the disappeared leaders claim that heavily armed men with bulletproof vests arrived in pick-up trucks and wearing police ...; Created on 03 September 2020
29. More ISDS cases launched against Latin American states amid the COVID-19 pandemic: (ISDS); ... for investment arbitration due to the surge in claims that will arise from it or whether, conversely, it will be a final sweep of the sword by discouraging states from including this dispute resolution ...; Created on 01 September 2020
30. We Are in Danger Daily: Honduran Afro-Indigenous Garífuna Demand Return of Kidnapped Land Defenders: (Mining and Human Rights); ... our communities. And nobody believed that this young man was able to do what he do: punish the government, and claim for the comply of the sentence of the international court, international human rights ...; Created on 17 August 2020
31. Timeline: Guatemala mine suspensions: (Regional News); ... following an injunction by CALAS. 2017 May 24: CALAS launches an injunction aimed at overturning the Escobal mining license, claiming indigenous groups were not consulted, in breach of ILO 169. Tahoe ...; Created on 23 July 2020
32. Corporate Lawsuits Could Devastate Poor Countries Grappling with COVID-19: (FTAs & ISDS); ... from such claims. “While the future remains uncertain,” states Aceris Law, an international arbitration law firm, “the response to the Covid-19 pandemic is likely to violate various protections provided ...; Created on 23 July 2020
33. Anglo American responses to AGM queries raise more questions than they answer: (Mining and Human Rights); ... later conflicts? Despite Anglo American’s claims that the inspections carried out under Participatory Environmental Monitoring for 5 years suggest that Quellaveco does not have negative effects on the ...; Created on 22 July 2020
34. With Passage of NAFTA 2.0, Congress Boosts Fossil Fuel Polluters, Particularly in Mexico: (FTAs & ISDS); ... and the United States) puts new limitations on investor claims. For example, claims cannot be made for indirect expropriation, which is used by companies to get “compensated” for profits it expected to ...; Created on 03 May 2020
35. Guatemalan Water Protectors Persist, Despite Mining Company Threats: (Regional News); ... legal grounds on which to operate its mine in Guatemala, KCA has slapped Guatemala with a US$350 million international arbitration claim at the World Bank´s International Centre for Settlement of Investment ...; Created on 03 May 2020
36. Ostúa River contaminated with lead and arsenic from Cerro Blanco mine: (Cerro Blanco); ... the Environmental Impact Studies presented by the company and used to approve the mining permits claim. According to environmental organizations the permits granted by the Guatemalan Ministry of the Environment ...; Created on 21 April 2020
37. Water, transparency and mining concerns in the Philippines: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... the local stakeholders. More recently, the communities living near the Didipio mine claimed to have water supply problems including access to potable water, and availability for use in their homes and ...; Created on 08 March 2020
38. Social Organizations demand compliance with the Prohibition of Metal Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... Disputes (ICSID), connected to the World Bank (WB), the Salvadoran State beat the lawsuit for 250 million dollars that Canadian based OceanaGold mining(formerly Pacific Rim) claimed for not obtaining the ...; Created on 26 December 2019
39. Land Defenders Are Killed in the Philippines for Protesting Canadian Mining: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... groups later claimed that the killings were perpetrated by a government-backed paramilitary group. The Philippine Army has denied any links to the group. “We are basically living with half of our body ...; Created on 04 October 2019
40. ATM Statement re OGPI FTAA renewal: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... in 2016 ordered by former DENR Sec. Gina Lopez. A new hydrology impact study should have also been submitted by OGPI to dispel the claims of the LGU that te water supply has been severely reduced due ...; Created on 26 September 2019

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