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The CAC Report s a New Round of Threats

| Mining and Human Rights
The CAC Report s a New Round of Threats On the heels of the one year anniversary of the murder of Juan Francisco Duran, the Environmental Committee of Cabañas (CAC) reports new threats towards one of their young volunteers.  Below is the CAC statement documenting the most recent incident. He...

El Salvador loses on three out of four counts, as anti-environment and anti-development case launched under CAFTA drags on

| FTAs & ISDS
El Salvador loses on three out of four counts, as anti-environment and anti-development case launched under CAFTA drags on Todd Tucker, June 4, 2012 El Salvador lost three out of four of its major arguments in last Friday’s Pac Rim Cayman LLC v. El Salvador jurisdictional ruling. Even though it...

Mining Firm Doubles Up On Law Firms in Quest for Pot of Gold

| FTAs & ISDS
Mining Firm Doubles Up On Law Firms in Quest for Pot of Gold Sarah Anderson, IPS Global Economy Project Director Posted: 06/06/2012 5:50 pm A Canadian mining company has cleared a major legal hurdle in their quest to exploit gold in El Salvador. In a celebratory press release, the firm, Pacifi...

Today’s Trivia Quiz: How Global Mining Corporations Are Able to Undermine Democracy

| FTAs & ISDS
Today’s Trivia Quiz: How Global Mining Corporations Are Able to Undermine Democracy Posted By Triplecrisis On June 28, 2012 @ 9:00 am In Guest Bloggers | No Comments Robin Broad, guest blogger Today’s trivia category is how global mining corporations undermine democracy. First a bit of backgr...

LPG: Investigations into pollution in the San Sebastian River

| Commerce Group
Investigations into pollution in the San Sebastian River (LPG) Yesterday a delegation of specialists collected samples from the river Written by Ángela Alfaro  Tuesday, July 3, 2012 00:00 Translated by Jan Morrill  Original Version in Spanish Specialists from the Ministry of the Environme...

Investigations into Pollution in the San Sebastian River

| Commerce Group
Investigations into Pollution in the San Sebastian River The containers analyzed by MARN presumably contain cyanide and ferrous sulfate By Gloria Morán Translation by Jan Morrill Original Version in Spanish SAN SALVADOR – The color of the water seems to get worse as the current advances, beg...

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