... requests in 2014.
The documents released to date, though redacted, show that Canadian officials engaged on Goldcorp’s behalf with decision-makers in Guatemala and Washington after the Organization ...
GuapinolResiste
After finding that the detention of the eight Guapinol defenders imprisoned for more than 17and 26 months is arbitrary, the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention urges the Government ...
... improperly withheld information about the government’s support for Goldcorp. This comes after multiple accusations of human rights abuses directed against the Vancouver-based company, stretching back years. ...
... and aid programs implemented after a 2009 coup. Afterwards, President Juan Orlando Hernandez declared Honduras “open for business.”
The country sold its natural resources, fuelling the expansion of extractive ...
... is back in the news after announcing its reactivation. Why is it important for us to be informed about this case? We explain more in this first thread:
According to MadreSelva, Bluestone Resources, the ...
... which came after the granting of a Certification of Non-Overlap (CNO) to the company, which stated that the area of its mining operations is outside of an ancestral domain.
“We expect the renewal will ...
... assassination. Events lent credibility to their suspicions: In the months after the murder, activists were flooded with death threats and two other mining opponents were gunned down.
Despite the brutality ...
... that can force transnationals such as Glencore to have full accountability for their activities. Through the voices of the stakeholders involved, we share here the key points from before and after a popular ...
... anticipated the domestic industry would rebound after neighboring Indonesia, the world’s biggest nickel producer, imposed an export ban on the metal in January 2020. The Philippines, the No. 2 producer, ...
... to repeat this question at several points throughout the book. After describing the October 2009 award ceremony in Washington where Broad and Cavanagh first met a number of the water defenders in person, ...
... their counterparts in Guatemala, Peru, and the Philippines, where mining projects created webs of local corporate leaders who were intertwined with and enriched by the extractive industry. But after the ...
... involving the Haile Gold Mine that had been announced by DHEC in the past year.
The agency said in September it had fined the mine $11,200 after finding excessive water releases of thallium, a toxic ...
... in fossil fuel firms, retrofit and weatherize millions of homes, and upgrade our water infrastructure.
There is an opportunity to do just that as our nation emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic. After ...
... been under threat from international mining companies for decades, companies that are after El Salvador's gold. But an unlikely alliance came together to stop them. People on opposite sides of the bitter ...
Otago Daily
Hamish Maclean
OceanaGold has welcomed investigations under way to rule out all possible sources of lead in an Otago community’s water supply even after the mining company resurfaced on ...
... request.
Hidden in those documents are details about Canadian officials’ communications with Goldcorp, the Guatemalan government and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) after the commission ...
NACLA
Beth Geglia and Andrea Nuila
It’s almost like an insult that this is happening to us now, after so much sacrifice to develop the community to the point it’s at today,” Venessa Cardenas explains, ...
... in South Carolina are so contaminated they are today federal Superfund cleanup sites.
The Haile Gold Mine reopened at the site of a historic gold-digging operation after locating gold that miners in ...
... for the protests, until he was jailed in 2019, a year after being elected governor of Puno.
Aduviri, a supporter of Bolivian President Evo Morales, was released from prison this past December through ...
... Cagayan Valley immediately after typhoon Ulysses,” he added. The governor was responding to the November 7 press release of OGPI, saying the firm will soon finalize the renewal of its FTAA with concerned ...