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Save the Mining Moritorium

| Commerce Group
The state of Wisconsin’s mining legislation is some of the strongest in the country and the world.  Their “prove it first” law requires mining companies to show that mining in metallic sulfides has been done safely elsewhere in North America, and since no mining company has been able to prov...

Concerned Citizens from Across the U.S. Call on a Milwaukee Company to Act Ethically

| Commerce Group
Concerned Citizens from Across the U.S. Call on a Milwaukee Company to Act Ethically A Milwaukee Company’s Toxic Legacy  In 2006, the Salvadoran government decided to revoke the failed Milwaukee-based mining corporation Commerce Group’s mining permits following evidence that the mining project ...

Salvadoran Indigenous leader Shandur Kuátzin Makwilkali

| Mining and Human Rights
Salvadoran Indigenous leader Shandur Kuátzin Makwilkali BY ROBIN LLEWELLYN • NOV 6, 2012 "This is not Cabañas," said Shandur Kuátzin Makwilkali, gesturing around the room and out the window at the wooded slope, but meaning the entire region of that name. He had been describing the gro...

“What is Happening to Canada’s Good Name?”

| Pacific Rim/OceanaGold
“What is Happening to Canada’s Good Name?” As Pacific Rim pushes forward with its law suit for $77 million against the Salvadoran government, environmental, policy and trade organizations visited the Canadian Embassy in Washington on November 12th  to talk about the threats posed by Canadia...

Communities from Across the Hemisphere Speak out Against Pacific Rim

| Pacific Rim/OceanaGold
Communities from Across the Hemisphere Speak out Against Pacific Rim On October 20th, thousands of people marched in Cabañas, El Salvador to voice their opposition to the proposed gold mining project of Pacific Rim, a Canadian mining company. The anti-mining movement in El Salvador has been gro...

A Question of Sovereignty

| Mining prohibition El Salvador
On June 1st, the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) ruled that Canadian mining company Pacific Rim would be allowed to continue its $77 million lawsuit against the Salvadoran government by basing its claims in domestic investment law. Yesterday, the National R...

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