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PRESS RELEASE: Permanent Alert against Metallic Mining in El Salvador

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PRESS RELEASE / DEC. 06, 2016 On December 14, it will be 2 months since an ICSID Tribunal issued the arbitration award condemning Pacific Rim / Oceana Gold to pay the Salvadoran State $8 million US dollars in legal costs as a result the lawsuit filed by the transnational mining company 2009 agai...

NEWS RELEASE: Canadian mining company threatens El Salvador’s water

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Ottawa – Canadian investments are coming between citizens of El Salvador and their water, says a new report. Authored by Meera Karunananthan of the Blue Planet Project and Susan Spronk of the University of Ottawa, the report highlights the tensions between ...

EARTH DAY 2014: El Salvador faces critical environmental challenges

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The United Nations(UN), has called on millions of people who on April 22 will celebrate Earth Day 2014 to focus on celebrating Green Cities to achieve a healthy and sustainable environment. This effort is meaningless if we consider that extractive projects, such as metal m...

Current political transition crucial for advancing democratic reform and economic, environmental and social development in El Salvador.

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For Immediate Release Members of National Roundtable Against Metallic Mining in El Salvador, a broad alliance of religious, research, environmental, and community development organizations who seek to prohibit mining in El Salvador are looking at the current political transition in El Salvador a...

Presidential candidates fail environmental agenda

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PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES FAIL TO SERIOUSLY ADDRESS SOCIO- ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS AFFECTING THE POPULATION OF EL SALVADOR The Environmental Alliance of El Salvador is a national network of organizations, who advocate on issues related to the sustainable management of the environment in El Salvador...

STATEMENT ON THE INCURSION OF THE EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIES IN CENTRAL AMERICA

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The organizations below met at the regional meeting: "Experiences and perspectives of social movements  against mining metals " held in Managua, Nicaragua.  We work in defence of life and the integrity of the Central American territory, as such we express to the national and internati...

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