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21. Ostúa River contaminated with lead and arsenic from Cerro Blanco mine
(Cerro Blanco)
... that arsenic also has a strong link with type two diabetes," explained Cortés. Impacts on biodiversity, water pollution and negative effects on the human health of populations, are some effects of metal ...
Created on 21 April 2020
22. The PPDDH presents a report that addresses the socio-environmental impacts of the San Sebastián Mine
(Commerce Group)
... and human commercial activity.  These conditions have left as a legacy the pollution that magnifies the impacts of climate change and worsens the living conditions for the population that suffers its ...
Created on 26 December 2019
23. Social Organizations demand compliance with the Prohibition of Metal Mining
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... pollution caused by mining or industrial monocrop projects.  ------------ Translated by: Giada Ferrucci Translated from: https://www.diariocolatino.com/organizaciones-demandan-cumplimiento-a-ley-de-prohibicion-de-mineria-metalica/ ...
Created on 26 December 2019
24. Marcelo's Legacy: The environmentalist who fought against metal mining in El Salvado
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
by Eduardo Barahona / Karla Rodas: Vanguardia El Salvador is the first country in the world to ban metal mining in its entirety, in March, 2017; but who were the precursors of this victory? It could ...
Created on 18 September 2019
25. The long overdue breakup: Nueva Vizcaya and Oceanagold
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... causing ten wells, two creeks, and a spring to dry. As early as 2014, an environmental investigation mission in Didipio found damages to forests, air pollution from dusty roads and stockpiles, and massive ...
Created on 16 September 2019
26. Global protest launched against OceanaGold mine in the Philippines
(OceanaGold Philippines)
... pollution of rivers, unjust conditions of workers, illegal arrests, and red-tagging. The group also furthered that the entire Filipino people’s sovereign rights to their natural resources have been undermined ...
Created on 02 September 2019
27. Mining Grabs Up Land, Deals Blow to Agriculture in Central America
(Background and reports )
...  For example, the Cerro Blanco mine, located in the Guatemalan municipality of Asunción Mita, bordering on western El Salvador, is part of the Ostua-Guija-Lempa basin. The pollution generated by the ...
Created on 07 May 2019
28. Guatemalan court upholds Tahoe mine suspension
(Regional News)
... pollution, he said. Casillas has been the site of a partial road-block for more than a year. Vehicles suspected of carrying materials to the mine are prevented from passing.  Last month, residents ...
Created on 16 September 2018
29. THE STRUGGLE FOR GOOD WATER GOVERNANCE CONTINUES IN EL SALVADOR
(Water Crisis El Salvador)
... experts. The main cause of the current crisis is poor water management (pollution and over-exploitation) due to the lack of policies (General Water Law), practices and programs that ensure good governance. ...
Created on 27 August 2018
30. Central Americans Demand to be Consulted About Mining Projects
(Regional News)
... associated with water pollution. Around 96 families in the village of La Cuchilla, on a hill next to the site, had to be evicted because of damage to the walls of the houses, due to the vibrations produced ...
Created on 09 May 2018
31. Church in El Salvador backs law declaring clean, affordable water as a human right
(Water Crisis El Salvador)
... the movement to ban mining for gold and other metals, practices that produced considerable water pollution. Now the church is working to protect the human right to water and fighting the privatization ...
Created on 08 May 2018
32. A year with a bitter taste in environmental matters in El Salvador
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... defenders murdered in Cabañas ", concluded Cabezas. Environmental organizations also claim that the damage to the health of the population and the pollution of the rivers of the Salvadoran coastal areas, ...
Created on 01 February 2018
33. Cross border mining will be the next phase of the anti-mining struggle in El Salvador
(Cerro Blanco)
... understand the communities that live in border areas where the threat is latent. We should organize more, to avoid pollution and seek support with the State," he said. The social struggle, said Calles, ...
Created on 14 November 2017
34. El Salvador – When The Seeds Of Resistance Bloom
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... right for mining in El Salvador; pollution from mining jeopardizes our water and therefore our health; mining puts the Lempa River – the primary source of water for more than half the population- at risk. ...
Created on 23 June 2017
35. Pressure Grows on Mining Giant to Pay $8 Million to El Salvador
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... to national standards regulating the industry after the company failed to submit a feasibility study and Environmental Impact Assessment. The government was particularly concerned about water pollution ...
Created on 05 March 2017
36. Social Movements Demand Blunt Action to Prohibit Mining
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... serious problems in El Salvador with all the environmental pollution, problems with climate change and mining  on top of that. They (Pacific Rim/Oceana Gold) wanted to steal US$250 million from us and ...
Created on 15 February 2017
37. Alejandro Guevara: “It was the communities who built the resistance against metallic mining”
(Mining and Human Rights)
... of it can still be saved but we must take care of the few resources we have left.”   “It cannot denied that many young people are dying as a consequence of pollution and conflict these big companies leave, ...
Created on 03 January 2017
38. Solidarity rally in Toronto as decision released in OceanaGold v. El Salvador case
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... are calling for an end to mining operations and for their lands to be rehabilitated. The statement highlighted "massive environmental degradation, human rights abuses, and the pollution of waterways and ...
Created on 10 November 2016
39. For grassroots organizations, the fight to protect water and local communities continues, now on a larger scale
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... achieve justice for those communities and organizations affected by the pollution and corporate greed of OceanaGold. “It is our right to determine our own development, companies cannot come and extort ...
Created on 10 November 2016
40. Across the Pacific: building a global struggle against the free-trade agenda of OceanaGold
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... six months after the start of OceanaGold’s commercial operations confirmed the massive pollution of river systems that run through their mining tenement. Both experiences revealed the fascist aggressiveness ...
Created on 26 September 2016
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