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1. Metals mining and Sustainable Development in Central America: An Assessment of benefits and costs: (General mining reports ); Oxfam This assessment conducted by Oxfam discusses the social, environmental and economic costs of metals mining in Central America. The prices of metals are very unstable and mining practices produce ...; Created on 23 April 2016
2. The Cerro Blanco mine and the right to consultation: (Cerro Blanco); ... tunnel to open-pit mining: deficiencies in the Environmental Impact Assessment In 2007, ENTREMARES S.A., a subsidiary of Goldcorp, obtained an exploitation license from the Ministry of Environment and ...; Created on 22 September 2022
3. El Salvador: Metallic Mining Threatens Again: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... with the Ministry of the Environment in the assessment of mining and quarry exploration proposals. The new law mentions only once the existing Law of Prohibition of Metallic Mining, stating that “the ...; Created on 14 December 2021
4. Canada’s Mining Industry Is Spreading Havoc Around the World — With Justin Trudeau’s Support: (Mining and Human Rights); ... Commissioner Service (TCS), which supports many mining projects. TCS officials based at Canadian diplomatic outposts assist firms with market assessments, problem-solving, and introductions to local officials. ...; Created on 07 May 2021
5. Swiss mining transnational Glencore in the Andes: (General mining reports ); ... to acknowledge their responsibility for these impacts, in order to seek redress. The communiqué also warns of the parent companies’ announcements regarding putting their shares up for sale. “An assessment ...; Created on 22 April 2021
6. After trying to protect water sources, these Hondurans have been held without bail for more than a year.: (Mining and Human Rights); ... financed by unknown sources, were sent from outside the Aguán to sabotage the construction of an otherwise responsible, non-polluting, job-creating mine.” That is not an assessment shared by people who ...; Created on 25 September 2020
7. New Report: Mining Injustice Through International Arbitration: Countering Kappes, Cassiday & Associates’ Claims over a Gold-mining Project in Guatemala: (Regional News); ... incomplete environmental impact assessment. It built its mine without a construction license and through violent repression of local communities by private security and state-armed forces under a corrupt ...; Created on 24 August 2020
8. Guatemalan Water Protectors Persist, Despite Mining Company Threats: (Regional News); ... broke down between the farmers and the company when the community learned that the environmental impact assessment for the project had been approved without their prior knowledge. Then, this month, another ...; Created on 03 May 2020
9. Land Defenders Are Killed in the Philippines for Protesting Canadian Mining: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... of extension. While the act mandates environmental impact assessments and compels developers to get consent from Indigenous communities before setting up mines in ancestral lands, activists say companies ...; Created on 04 October 2019
10. ATM Statement re OGPI FTAA renewal: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... The requirements for FTAA renewal should have included a new environmental impact assessment (EIA) and comprehensive proof that it has complied with the findings and recommendations of the Mine Audit ...; Created on 26 September 2019
11. The Peaceful Resistance of La Puya fights for the right to water: (Regional News); ... mine located just north of Guatemala City since March 2010. The Peaceful Resistance of La Puya, which is made up of members from these communities, has stated, "[The environmental impact assessment] ...; Created on 03 May 2019
12. Guatemalan court upholds Tahoe mine suspension: (Regional News); ... early 2014, was fast-tracked to production, moving from a preliminary economic assessment to commercial production in less than two years. In 2016 it produced over 21 million ounces of silver, making it ...; Created on 16 September 2018
13. Rural Communities’ Struggle Against US-Owned Mine Continues in Guatemalan Supreme Court: (Regional News); ... Guatemalan and International law, and that the company’s Environmental Impact Assessment was plagued with serious deficiencies,” the letter reads. “We ask you to ensure environmental concerns surrounding ...; Created on 27 August 2018
14. Historic Wins for Democracy and Rights in El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... until the country could conduct a country-wide economic and environmental assessment of mining’s impact.7 Furious about this de facto ban on mining, a firm called Pac Rim Cayman launched a lawsuit against ...; Created on 26 June 2017
15. 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
16. In El Salvador, OceanaGold Must ‘Pay Up and Pack Up’: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... Pacific Rim Mining first announced its intention to sue in April 2009, after outgoing Salvadoran President Saca declared that he would not issue any new mine permits until a strategic environmental assessment ...; Created on 03 March 2017
17. For grassroots organizations, the fight to protect water and local communities continues, now on a larger scale: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... of El Salvador raised concerns over the failure of the company’s El Dorado gold mine to submit an Environmental Impact Assessment. OceaneGold then sued the small Central American country in the World Bank' ...; Created on 10 November 2016
18. PRESS RELEASE: Not to the blackmail of Pacific Rim Mining/Oceana Gold: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... Strategic Environmental Assessment of the Mining Sector -EAE- conducted in 2011, concluded that the conditions of environmental vulnerability of El Salvador pose a significant barrier to the possibility ...; Created on 26 September 2016
19. Save Our Water, End Investor Rights: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... that the mining company's assessments had serious gaps: it lacked the baseline water quality and quantity data required for an accurate examination of watershed impacts; it also failed to consider the costs ...; Created on 18 May 2015
20. WILL EL SALVADOR BE FORCED TO PAY $301 MILLION FOR VALUING CLEAN WATER OVER GOLD?: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... Times. Losing the case, the minister explained, would threaten the government’s policy on metals mining. “In 2011, we conducted an environmental assessment which determined that El Salvador ...; Created on 18 April 2015

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