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41. 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
42. News Summary international campaign against OceanaGold: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... Salvador and contaminated the water. Now, according to Lita Trejo, a native Salvadoran and school worker in Washington, DC, the once clear river is orange. The people who drink from the arsenic-polluted ...; Created on 25 September 2014
43. A corporate warning to El Salvador: Give up your gold or pay $315 million: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... always skinny. They always breathe the river water, they play in there. When I see my kids suffering, I know others’ are too.” A 2012 study confirmed Escobar’s fears: the river next to her home is contaminated ...; Created on 06 August 2014
44. El Salvador faces mining company: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... this territory violated human rights, and its inhabitants were exposed to contracting diseases from water contaminated with chemicals used in the extraction process, which seep into the ground aided by ...; Created on 21 July 2014
45. International coalition supports El Salvador in battle against Canadian mining company: (2013 North America Tour); ... World Bank, 90 percent of the surface water is heavily contaminated and 20 percent of its rural population lacks safe drinking water. Pacific Rim is using the World Bank’s International Centre for Settlement ...; Created on 09 April 2014
46. Mining multinationals exploit Central America: (Water no Gold); ... rivers are contaminated. As the Latin America Water Tribunal has reported, El Salvador is facing water stress; there won’t be enough water in the future.” Cyanide is used to separate gold from ore, in ...; Created on 03 December 2013
47. Members of Congress urge El Salvador to protect environment and communities from mining: (Background and reports ); ... Natural Resources, 90 percent of surface water is contaminated due to agricultural runoff and deficient sewage processes. Furthermore, according to the World Bank, a fifth of the population living in rural ...; Created on 27 November 2013
48. Members of Congress urge El Salvador to protect environment and communities from mining: (Background and reports ); ... Resources, 90 percent of surface water is contaminated due to agricultural runoff and deficient sewage processes. Furthermore, according to the World Bank, a fifth of the population living in rural communities ...; Created on 27 November 2013
49. Letter to the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... serious and very complicated diseases, contaminated soil, loss of biodiversity and a compromised food chain with serious cases of contamination that cannot be reversed. 3 - The environmental movement ...; Created on 01 October 2013
50. Fight for water legislation intensifies in El Salvador: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... of liters of underground water daily in the city of Nejapa, and road closures in various locations, including the town of San Luis Talpa where chemicals from industrial cotton plantations have contaminated ...; Created on 22 August 2013

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