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21. Urgent! Strengthening a powerful global voice in defence of life: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... companies to sue populations and governments that are just trying to protect their legitimate rights. In order to win this battle, it is fundamental for the organized population not to desist, and for ...; Created on 29 September 2015
22. WILL EL SALVADOR BE FORCED TO PAY $301 MILLION FOR VALUING CLEAN WATER OVER GOLD?: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... it is not feasible,” explains Minister Pohl. The government has, since 2011, been trying – unsuccessfully – to pass a mining law in Congress, whereby a panel of international experts together with ...; Created on 18 April 2015
23. NEWS RELEASE: El Salvador Facing $300m Claim from Mining Multinational under ‘ISDS’: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... company trying to use opaque and unaccountable ISDS tribunals to effectively steal from a sovereign state. Governments should be standing up for the rights of their own people, rather than handing power ...; Created on 17 April 2015
24. Protesters back El Salvador for denying gold mining permit: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... is trying to push the project undemocratically. It makes promises of jobs in an impoverished area, building schools, it is trying to divide the people without following the proper procedures,” said Sofia ...; Created on 17 September 2014
25. Australian company sues El Salvador for right to mine: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... some of its investments to Hong Kong and is using a 1993 Hong Kong-Australia trade agreement to sue the Australian government over its plain packaging laws. For poor countries, just the costs of trying ...; Created on 11 September 2014
26. MUA joins fresh OceanaGold protests: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... told MiningNews.net the union had become involved in the dispute after originally trying to help organise the truckers in El Salvador. Bracken has been raising awareness on the “Water Not Gold” campaign ...; Created on 11 September 2014
27. A corporate warning to El Salvador: Give up your gold or pay $315 million: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... Not in El Salvador, but in Washington DC by a little-known tribunal loosely attached to the World Bank which oversees such international investment disputes. They company, “is trying to achieve here ...; Created on 06 August 2014
28. New Study Shows Dangers of Trade Agreements that Help Corporations Sue Govenments: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... assault, but to rally the groups and governments trying to halt new trade and investment agreements built from this same cookie-cutter mold. The governments of Chile and other countries are already raising ...; Created on 25 March 2014
29. Debunking Eigth Falsehoods by Pacific Rim/OceanaGold in El Salvador: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... firm OceanaGold acquired Pacific Rim Mining in November 2013. Up against stiff local and national opposition in El Salvador, Pacific Rim has been trying to get at gold deposits in northern El Salvador ...; Created on 18 March 2014
30. El Salvador, violence and impunity: (Mining and Human Rights); ... but having received death threats, he moved into Ramiro’s house which was still guarded by the police. Guevara was first cousin to Santos’s wife Dora Recinos, who had remained in her home. “We were trying ...; Created on 13 February 2014
31. Mining multinationals exploit Central America: (Water no Gold); ... nearly a decade, Canadian-based multinational Pacific Rim has been trying to establish a gold mine in the small Central American country of El Salvador. The project, in the department of Cabañas, has ...; Created on 03 December 2013
32. A plea to Australia: Put life & dignity before gold & profit: (Water no Gold); ... the devastation of floods and landslides provoked by hurricanes. As communities we are trying to rebuild from the ravage of years of the massacres and death that came from being the front-line of the cold-war. ...; Created on 10 November 2013
33. PRESS RELEASE: Australia tour: (Water no Gold); ... 7th, 2013 - The National Roundtable Against Metallic Mining (La Mesa), a grassroots coalition in El Salvador, is up against OceanaGold, an Australian company trying to secure water for the ‘El Dorado’ ...; Created on 08 November 2013
34. Buzzwords:Responsible Mining: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... responsibility." Buzzword alert. Indeed, in El Salvador, as in the Philippines and elsewhere, grassroots communities and a handful of elected officials are trying to give deeper meaning to the definition ...; Created on 22 September 2013
35. Last Day in Victoria: (March 2013 North American Tour); ... The First Peoples gallery the priority. Here, Vidalina became acquainted with the history and living culture of the families still trying to settle land claims in British Columbia where it has only been ...; Created on 17 March 2013
36. Water Forum of El Salvador Opposes the Government's Mining Suspensio: (2013 North America Tour); ... and the level of environmental fragility of our country. b) That trying to overcome the threat mining projects pose with an initiative like that proposed by the Executive Branch, can only be seen as ...; Created on 22 August 2012
37. Pac Rim ICSID Protest: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... not fair. Today we are saying: Enough! Companies, like Pacific Rim, that promote metallic mining in El Salvador are trying to subvert the will of the population that has been saying NO since 2008 to ...; Created on 29 February 2012
38. Cross Border Struggles: Anti-Mining Ties between WI and El Salvador: (Commerce Group); ... El Salvador. There are strong ties between Wisconsin and El Salvador around mining. Currently a Wisconsin company is trying to sue the government of El Salvador for $100 million, after the government ...; Created on 28 February 2012
39. After trying to protect water sources, these Hondurans have been held without bail for more than a year.: (Mining and Human Rights); Every Wednesday morning, Gabriela Sorto wakes up early to make lunch for her dad, Porfirio. He has not been convicted of a crime but, along with six other local men from Guapinol, Honduras, he has been ...; Created on 25 September 2020
40. How Honduras became one of the most dangerous countries to defend natural resources: (Mining and Human Rights); ... which gives our community life, for trying to stop the exploitation of natural resources by rich companies who the government helps to terrorize us,” said Sorto, 28. “Every day that passes we know less ...; Created on 07 October 2020

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