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In the Keystone Suit, It’s Big Oil vs. Democracy

| Pacific Rim/OceanaGold
Janet Redman: Foreign Policy in Focus A Canadian oil conglomerate is suing the U.S. over its actions to protect the climate. It’s a small taste of what could come under the TPP. A few years back, I was one of the hundreds of climate activists arrested while protesting the Keystone XL pi...

A dirty gold fever

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Alexandra Endres: Zeit online / Translation: Marina Bonetti El Salvador sits on a rich gold deposit – and wants to leave it in the ground, in order to protect its drinking water. The investor sues: a test of strength for the young democracy. “End poverty, Not Democracy!” Demonstrators protes...

Justice delayed: Environmentalists assassinated in Cabañas remembered

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P. Cabezas As the world celebrated the conclusion of the COP21 talks in Paris, the somber mood in the community of La Maraña, in the northern department of Cabañas of El Salvador, hardly echoes the cheerful worldwide fetes. A few days after the signing of the of the accord in December, members o...

El Salvador: 49 exploration permits were once approved

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Xenia Gonzales Oliva: El Diario de Hoy / Translation P. Cabezas Between 2000-2010, 49 exploration permits were approved, they are all currently under an administrative freeze.   49 applications for metal and non-metal mining are currently frozen even though the Regulatory Office of Hydr...

Resistance against the bloodsucker

| Mining prohibition El Salvador
*Oliver Ristau: Frankfurter Rundschau / Translation: Marina Bonetti “No to mining. Yes to life”: after the mass, the priest stands above an anti-mining mural together with church servants and believers, waving.    El Salvador is worried about environmental damages, and therefore b...

El Salvador: Just Saying No to Gold Mining

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* Rachel Nadelman: Aula Blog El Salvador’s refusal to allow gold mining within its borders sets it apart from most other Latin American countries, but the mining suspension is far from permanent.  Since 2007, three successive presidents, from both the right-wing ARENA and left-wing FMLN part...

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