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Save Our Water, End Investor Rights

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Maude Barlow and Meera Karunananthan - Huffington Post As the world looks for innovative solutions to solve the rapidly worsening water crisis, two Salvadoran experts are touring Canada this week to promote a simple strategy that could save the public billions of dollars. Yanira Cortez, Deputy ...

Salvadorans Warn Canadians About World Bank's Kangaroo Court

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 Rene Guerra - teleSUR The company’s proposed gold mine would have used thousands of tons of cyanide and hundreds of thousand liters of water per day In anticipation of an imminent ruling from the World Bank’s little known investor-state arbitration tribunal that could force El Salvador...

Trade Deals Are Giving Corporations the Power to Intimidate Tiny Countries

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Sandra Cuffe: New Republic Alejandro Guevara hasn’t slept. There was a death in La Maraña, and Guevara, the vice president of the community environmental association, spent the night at the wake. Still, he doesn’t skip a beat as he describes recent violence in his small Salvadoran village, runni...

Salvadoran Deputy Ombudswoman for the Defense of Environment rights begins a tour in Canada on the case of OceanaGold

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Toronto (Canada), May 12 (EFE  Noticias) .- The Ombudsperson for the Defense of the Rights of Environment of El Salvador, Yanira Cortez,  began a tour of Canada today to talk about the case of OceanaGold mining corporation which has sued the Central American country for 301 million doll...

WILL EL SALVADOR BE FORCED TO PAY $301 MILLION FOR VALUING CLEAN WATER OVER GOLD?

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Gabriel Labrador- Equal Times The Central American state of El Salvador could be forced to pay US$301 million in damages to an Australian-Canadian mining company, OceanaGold, after the company’s application for a mining license was rejected on the basis of the projected environmental damage it w...

NEWS RELEASE: El Salvador Facing $300m Claim from Mining Multinational under ‘ISDS’

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INTERNATIONAL TRADE UNION CONFEDERATION Brussels, 15 April 2015 (ITUC OnLine):  The ITUC has described a $300m claim against El Salvador by an Australian/Canadian mining conglomerate as an example of the worst excess of corporate greed. The claim is being decided in a tribunal under the t...

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