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Canadian corporate greed on display in Mexico mining dispute
Jen Moore | Canadian Dimension
As gold prices soar to record levels, the Los Filos gold mine in Mexico, one of the country’s largest, has sat idle since early September after its owner, Vancouver-based Equinox Gold, failed to uphold its agreement with the nearby community of Carrizalillo, a smal...
The hidden connection between a US steel company and the controversial Los Pinares mine in Honduras
Jennifer Avila y Danielle Mackey | Univision
An environmental conflict marked by violence is raging in Guapinol, Honduras, where local inhabitants resist an iron oxide mine in a national park.
Discreetly and without public announcement, the largest steel producer in the United States, the...
ATM Statement on illegal entry of fuel trucks in Nueva Vizcaya
PRESS RELEASE
Nov. 26. 2020
Quezon City - Alyansa Tigil Mina strongly condemns the illegal forceful entry today of five fuel trucks by Oceana Gold Philippines, Inc. (OGPI) in Brgy. Didipio, Kasibu, Nueva Vizcaya. This is an illegal act by the mining company, as it’s mining contract has...
Oceanagold violates restraining order from N. Vizcaya government
Aarons Macaraeg | Bulalat
MANILA– Local environmental group Kalikasan- People’s Network for the Environment (Kalikasan-PNE) lambasted on Thursday the illegal shipment of fuel for the continuing operation of Oceanagold mining company.
The fuel tankers were escorted reportedly by about 100 elemen...
Anti-mining community, Gina Lopez awarded as heroes for the environment
Aaron Macaraeg Bulatlat
The Philippines ranked second in the 2019 Global Witness report for being the deadliest for environmental defenders with. In 2018, the country topped the list with 30 defenders killed. In the same report, mining was cited as the “deadliest” sector.
Last w...
How Honduras became one of the most dangerous countries to defend natural resources
Nina Lakhani
The Guardian
The Guapinol community, on the country’s north coast, has become militarized in an effort to defend the river that supplies it. Gabriela Sorto has not seen or spoken to her father in six months, since the Honduran government’s draconian Covid-19 measures banned ...
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