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Environmental Alliance of El Salvador

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STATEMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL ALLIANCE OF EL SALVADOR IN LIGHT OF RECENT CALLS MADE BY THE OMBUDSMAN FOR THE DEFENSE OF HUMAN RIGHTS ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE HUMAN RIGHT TO ADEQUATE FOOD AND WATER AND THE THREAT OF METAL MINING IN THE COUNTRY. The Environmental Alliance of El Salvador is a ...

National Roundtable Against Metallic Mining responds to OcenaGold's takeover of Pacific Rim

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The National Roundtable against Metal Mining issued the following response to the announcement of OceanaGold's purchase this week:  Multimillion dollar company purchases Pacific Rim mining company, will seek agreements with political parties to proceed with mining i...

PRESS RELEASE: Mesa condemns attempted murder

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The National Roundtable Against Metallic Mining condemns attempted murder against leader of the anti-mining movement in El Salvador. The member organizations of the National Roundtable Against Metallic Mining, denounce the attempted murder against Mr. Alejandro Guevara Velasco from La Maraña E...

PRESS RELEASE: Mesa introduces new Special Law to Ban Mining in El Salvador

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Given the socio-environmental crisis in the country, we demand the Legislature discuss and approve the proposed Special Law to Ban Metallic Mining In 2006, we presented to the Legislative Assembly a proposed ban on metallic mining that, to date, has not being discussed by the Committee on Enviro...

PRESS RELEASE: La Mesa to introduce new mining legislation

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Because mining endangers life, the Salvadoran government must ban metallic mining. In 2006 the National Roundtable against Metallic Mining in El Salvador introduced a bill to regulate mining activity in the country. Among other things, the bill proposed a ban on exploration and exploitation of ...

PRESS RELEASE:ICSID rejects request by Commerce Group to extend trial against El Salvador due to failure to pay

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Given its failure to pay its fees to ICSID, the tribunal rejected the extension request by the mining company Commerce Group in the trial against El Salvador On August 9th the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) denied an extension request by the mining company Com...

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