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Transnational mining company loses the battle, but the war continues.

| Pacific Rim/OceanaGold
Edgardo Ayala : IPS News Environmental organizations are not dropping the guard in their fight against the operations of transnational mining corporation OceanaGold, which has just lost litigation against El Salvador but does not show any signs of giving up the extractive business in this Central...

PRESS RELEASE: Permanent Alert against Metallic Mining in El Salvador

| Media Releases
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...

Alejandro Guevara: “It was the communities who built the resistance against metallic mining”

| Mining and Human Rights
Gloria Orellana : CoLatino "As relatives of the victims, we are still awaiting for justice to be made, and this event is to commemorate and recognize their lives," said Alejandro Guevara, at the seven anniversary mass and community event that honored the memory of environmentalists Marcelo Rivera...

Fifth referendum on mining is called in Cinquera, Cabañas

| Mining prohibition El Salvador
Alfredo Carias : Contrapunto  Arcatao, San José las Flores, San Isidro Labrador and Nueva Trinidad in Chalatenango have already carried out referenda on mining. Citizens of the municipality of Cinquera in the department of Cabañas were asked to participate in a public referendum, to be held ...

EL SALVADOR’S WIN AGAINST THE US MINING COMPANY PACIFIC RIM: A VERY NUANCED VICTORY

| Pacific Rim/OceanaGold
by Karen Hudlet : Equal Times In October this year, the World Bank’s International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) decided in favour of El Salvador in a case brought by the US mining company Pacific Rim Cayman (now part of the Australian-Canadian company Oceana Gold) regardin...

Mining company delays complying with the ruling and reaches out to the government of Sanchez Ceren

| Pacific Rim/OceanaGold
Tomás Guevara / Washington correspondent  : El Diario de Hoy The conflict between Pacific Rim mining, a subsidiary of the transnational Oceana Gold, could continue as the company not only has delayed payment of the $ 8 million compensation imposed last October 14 by the International Center ...

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