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1. Interview about Mining in El Salvador, Wisconsin and Beyond
(Commerce Group)
Interview about Mining in El Salvador, Wisconsin and Beyond WORT Community Radio Station On A Public Affair-Hosted by Mike Moon
Created on 27 April 2012
2. Salvadoran Mining Struggles are Pertinent to Wisconsin
(Commerce Group)
Salvadoran Mining Struggles are Pertinent to Wisconsin by A. David Dahmer, April 25, 2012 Jan Morrill, of the National Roundtable Against Metallic Mining, is on a national tour talking about ...
Created on 27 April 2012
3. Lucha Continental: Lazos Anti-Mineros de Wisconsin y El Salvador
(Commerce Group)
Lucha Continental:  Lazos Anti-Mineros de Wisconsin y El Salvador Febrero, 2012 English Version La lucha contra la minería se está intensificando en el estado de Wisconsin, EEUU.  El jueves 26 ...
Created on 28 February 2012
4. How El Salvador Won on Mining
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... until the 1970s, when Commerce Group Corp. of Waukesha, Wisconsin, started operating the mine, turning the San Sebastián River waters orange from the chemicals, including cyanide, arsenic, and mercury, ...
Created on 07 May 2018
5. Commerce Group Mining Corporation required to pay for environmental clean up of the San Sebastian mine.
(Commerce Group)
... remediation of acid drainage resulting from their activities in the area. The San Sebastian mine was abandoned by Commerce Group Corporation (CGC), a mining company based in Wisconsin, US, after the Ministry ...
Created on 02 March 2016
6. Media coverage of the International Month of Action
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... Wisconsin-based Commerce Group Corp purchased a gold mine near the San Sebastian River in El Salvador and contaminated the water. Now, according to Lita Trejo, a native Salvadoran and school worker in ...
Created on 29 September 2014
7. News Summary international campaign against OceanaGold
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... itself, nothing is more precious than water. Just ask the people of El Salvador. Nearly 30 years ago, the Wisconsin-based Commerce Group Corp purchased a gold mine near the San Sebastian River in El ...
Created on 25 September 2014
8. International observer delegation statement: Community consultation on Mining in San Jose Las Flores, Chalatenango, El Salvador.
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
...             Humboldt Centre, Nicaragua Amy Browne                 Sister Cities, US Aurora Connley             Bad River First Nation, Wisconsin, US John Cutfeet                 KI First Nation, ...
Created on 23 September 2014
9. A corporate warning to El Salvador: Give up your gold or pay $315 million
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... to keep going,” said Escobar, in reference to Commerce Group Corp., a Wisconsin-based outfit that stopped mining for gold in San Sebastian in 2006 after permit difficulties. “My kids never get better—they’re ...
Created on 06 August 2014
10. El Salvador, violence and impunity
(Mining and Human Rights)
... by another case. Commerce Group is a Wisconsin-based company that operated the San Sebastian mine in La Unión department in eastern El Salvador. It used the Central American Free Trade Agreement to demand ...
Created on 13 February 2014
11. About mining in El Salvador
(Water no Gold)
... government acceded to public pressure and stopped issuing mining exploration and exploitation permits pending an environmental impact assessment.  As a result two mining corporations, one based in Wisconsin, ...
Created on 06 November 2013
12. OCEANA GOLD AND EL SALVADOR
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... moratorium, two mining corporations (Commerce Group based in Wisconsin, US, and Pacific Rim Mining, based in British Columbia, Canada), are suing the current government for over US$ 400 million under the ...
Created on 20 August 2013
13. The Rights Clash
(Commerce Group)
... Sebastian mine. In 1977, a Milwaukee, Wisconsin-based mining company called Commerce Group closed its operations there. In the years since, bedrock exposed during mining caused acid drainage, which has ...
Created on 15 July 2013
14. Gold Mining and the Defense of Water in El Salvador
(2013 Fact Finding Mission)
... acceded to public pressure and stopped issuing mining exploration and exploitation permits pending an environmental impact assessment.  As a result two mining corporations, one based in Wisconsin, US, ...
Created on 24 February 2013
15. Save the Mining Moritorium
(Commerce Group)
The state of Wisconsin’s mining legislation is some of the strongest in the country and the world.  Their “prove it first” law requires mining companies to show that mining in metallic sulfides has been ...
Created on 05 January 2013
16. Sign Your Organization On to Support the Mesa
(2013 International Support for Mining Ban)
... USA U.S. docallaghan@fwwatch.org Wisconsin Resources Protection Council U.S. agedicks@uwlax.edu Austin-Guajoyo Sister City Project  U.S. imallears@pvco.net ...
Created on 31 October 2012
17. Solidarity from 3,000 Miles Away
(2013 International Support for Mining Ban)
Solidarity from 3,000 Miles Away Last winter, when environmental activists and members of the community of San Sebastian heard about the struggles in Wisconsin to defeat legislation that would pave the ...
Created on 26 July 2012
18. U.S. TRADE DEALS MINE GREED NOT GOLD
(FTAs & ISDS)
U.S. TRADE DEALS MINE GREED NOT GOLD By Dominique Paul Noth Editor, Labor Press Posted June 8, 2012 Wisconsin’s myriad issues with businesses controlling mining legislation may not yet make the ...
Created on 08 June 2012
19. Investor Rights Strip Communities of their Basic National Sovereignty
(FTAs & ISDS)
... members of the Midwest Coalition against Lethal Mining (MCALM) and U.S.-El Salvador Sister Cities in anticipation of  the imminent news.  In a show of solidarity of community organizer from Wisconsin, ...
Created on 08 June 2012
20. Al Gedicks and Eric Hansen: Mine law needs public process, not ‘consensus’
(2013 North America Tour)
...  If no mining company has been able to meet the standards of Wisconsin’s mining moratorium law, it does not mean the law is flawed and in need of revision. It means the mining industry’s claim of being ...
Created on 18 May 2012
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