... El Salvador over denial of a gold mining license.
El Salvador refused to issue OceanaGold Corp an extraction permit in 2006. Activists say that the company failed to get permission to mine from a sufficient ...
... a free trade agreement, should they have to pay a penalty in international court?
"The threat of metal extraction is a threat to life,” Sánchez Cerén said to La Prensa Gráfica at the outset of his new ...
... continues to denounce and demand that authorities and civil society become aware of the urgent needs to create a law that prohibits the extraction of metals in El Salvador.
"Mega mining generates high ...
... 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 ...
... the country and therefore reiterated its commitment not to grant exploitation licenses.
"The threat of the metal extraction is a threat to life. Everyone says that El Salvador has a wealth underground, ...
... to local mayors. If Pacific Rim were granted an extraction licence and were able to proceed from exploring to exploiting seams of gold, local municipal authorities would receive 1% of mining profits in ...
... fundamental human rights, particularly the right to water and self-determination of peoples. Multinational corporations involved in the extraction of non-renewable natural resources impose and advance ...
... disputes, in which this nation has spent more than $3 million, while preparing a counterclaim to an Italian company that controls 51 percent of the shares for the national geothermal resource extraction, ...
... El Salvador.
To raise awareness of the problems associated with resource extraction in El Salvador and to encourage individuals to join our campaigns here in Australia, La Mesa, organised a very successful fact ...
... nor unique to El Salvador, for more than 500 years colonial powers and their subsequent republics have based their economy largely on the industrial extraction of non-renewable resources to meet the false ...