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A New Environmentalist Playbook An improbable victory in El Salvador offers lessons for grassroots activists worldwide

| Mining prohibition El Salvador
PROSPECT Sasha Chavkin From tropical rain forests to drinkable water, a vast share of the planet’s essential environmental resources are found in developing countries. When growth-oriented governments and powerful Western corporations set their sights on these lands, or the minerals beneath the...

Australian-Canadian mining company OceanaGold misleads public on Filipino mine

| OceanaGold Philippines
Greenleft Ron Guy Spokesperson for the Australian National Campaign on Mining in the Philippines (ANCoMP) Andrew Morrison believes that Australian-Canadian mining company OceanaGold is misleading the public about its mine in Didipio in Central Luzon. The Philippine government said it would ren...

‘Complete turnaround’: Philippines’ Duterte lifts ban on new mining permits

| OceanaGold Philippines
MONGABAY Leilani Chavez President Rodrigo Duterte has lifted a ban on issuing licenses for new mining operations in the Philippines, marking an about-face from a previous anti-mining stance that saw him ban open-pit mining in 2017 and close or suspend 26 mining operations for environmental viol...

El Salvador’s Water Defenders and the Fight Against Toxic Mining

| Mining prohibition El Salvador
SIERRA CLUB John Gibler In 2017, El Salvador became the first country in the world to ban metal mining. Robin Broad and John Cavanagh present the story of the social struggles and legal battles behind that ban in The Water Defenders (Beacon Press, 2021). Broad and Cavanagh spent over a decade ...

What Salvadoran Activists Can Teach Us About Building Coalitions

| Mining prohibition El Salvador
The Nation Robin Broad and John Cavanagh In March 2017, people from poorer communities across El Salvador stood up to corporate power and convinced their legislature to make their country the first in the world to ban mining to save its precious rivers. Their battle cries: “Water, not gold” and...

Families complain about big SC gold mine, citing danger and community disruption

| OceanaGold
The State Sammy The reality of living near a gold mine is a worrisome thing, says Angel Estridge, whose family owns property less than a mile from a pond full of nasty mining waste. She fears that leaks from the waste disposal pond could pollute well water, as well as a creek that runs by her ...

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