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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 ...

Buzzwords:Responsible Mining

| Pacific Rim/OceanaGold
by Robin Broad First published in: http://triplecrisis.com/buzzwords-responsible-mining/#more-8529 Buzzwords and Fuzzwords - terms that became popular but mean vastly different things to different people. We've had a long list: development, sustainability, good governance, civil society, accoun...

El Salvador: buried treasure or fool's gold?

| Pacific Rim/OceanaGold
By Whitney Eulich, Staff writer   Published in: http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Americas/2013/0910/El-Salvador-buried-treasure-or-fool-s-gold   San Isidro, El Salvador.  Walking through a sea of businessmen and information booths at a Toronto trade show, mining executive T...

Fight for water legislation intensifies in El Salvador

| Water Crisis El Salvador
An estimated ten thousand people hailing from different parts of the country marched through the streets of San Salvador today to demand that the Environment and Climate Change commission of the Legislative Assembly resume discussions on a General Water Law for El Salvador. The march is the culm...

OCEANA GOLD AND EL SALVADOR

| Mining prohibition El Salvador
By Vladimir Pacheco (krupuk2000@gmail.com) First published in http://www.mpi.org.au/australia-2/oceanagold-and-el-salvador/ Scars of civil war still fresh in the country’s social landscape. After years of civil war El Salvador remains a fragile country both politically and econom...

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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