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1. Ostúa River contaminated with lead and arsenic from Cerro Blanco mine: (Cerro Blanco); YSUCA The Cerro Blanco mine is located just 15 kilometres from the border with El Salvador, in the municipality of Asunción Mita in the department of Jutiapa, Guatemala. Since 2006, the project has posed ...; Created on 21 April 2020
2. El Salvador’s Historic Metal Mining Ban Is in Danger: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... would be a disaster for the nation’s already contaminated water supply. Unlike many Latin American countries that court extractive investments from transnational companies, El Salvador has no metal mining ...; Created on 06 April 2023
3. Gold mine expansion could produce $2.5 billion. But environmental problems linger: (OceanaGold); ... is a toxic metal that has contaminated fish across South Carolina. Mercury at the site was found at levels that had not been expected, DHEC said. OceanaGold’s expansion could be months away. The Haile ...; Created on 30 March 2021
4. Gold mine fined $100,000. Toxic air pollution found at big mine near tiny town: (OceanaGold); ... in South Carolina are so contaminated they are today federal Superfund cleanup sites. The Haile Gold Mine reopened at the site of a historic gold-digging operation after locating gold that miners in ...; Created on 12 February 2021
5. From dreams of gold to organic agriculture: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... there is no difficulty for the mother, father and older children to work and they have no risk that they can be contaminated by the products they are using or be exposed to toxins found in farms. We eliminate ...; Created on 05 January 2021
6. Puno: An indefinite strike announced due to mining contamination in the Coata River: (Regional News); Wayka Arsenic and mercury were found in the bodies of people in the districts near the Coata river basin, in the Puno region, which is being contaminated by mining tailings. Local leaders claim that ...; Created on 28 December 2020
7. Canadian corporate greed on display in Mexico mining dispute: (Regional News); ... water supplies have been depleted and contaminated by arsenic and other heavy metals. Families in the community report spending upwards of $6,300 CAD a year on bottled water for drinking and bathing. A ...; Created on 28 November 2020
8. Pandemic fuels mining extraction in Latin America: (Regional News); ... once the company arrives. "Not only do these companies bring rupture of the society and of the forms of governance, but they also begin to dry up springs, sources of fresh water, and other sources of contaminated ...; Created on 09 August 2020
9. Anglo American responses to AGM queries raise more questions than they answer: (Mining and Human Rights); ... of water for mining activity involves turning water into a non-renewable resource which is then overexploited and contaminated, preventing its regeneration. Anglo American affirms that the Quellaveco ...; Created on 22 July 2020
10. Honduran Land Defenders Receive the prestigious Letelier-Moffit award in Washington: (Regional News); ... 2010 have fiercely defended their main water source, the Guapinol River, from being contaminated by an Iron Oxide mine, owned by one of the most powerful families of Honduras. Reynaldo Dominguez a leader ...; Created on 24 October 2019
11. National Alliance Against the Privatization of Water “Water is not for sale, we care for it and defend it: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... of even greater risk and severity. According to environmental indicators, our country is experiencing significant deforestation, groundwater and air are heavily contaminated, and biodiversity is being ...; Created on 26 September 2019
12. National Roundtable against Metal Mining demands president Nayib Bukele to order the implementation of the Metal Mining Ban: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... Lima, La Unión, need to be addressed and resolved. The members of the National Roundtable against Metal Mining assured that the river in San Sebastián community, has been contaminated with acid drainage. ...; Created on 16 September 2019
13. Mining Grabs Up Land, Deals Blow to Agriculture in Central America: (Background and reports ); ... because of fears that they are contaminated with heavy metals used in the extraction process. “The country’s most important markets flat-out avoid buying our products,” he told IPS from his hometown. ...; Created on 07 May 2019
14. Criminalisation brought to new extremes in case of Aymara indigenous communities in Peru: (Regional News); ... affected by this rapid expansion because they depend directly on the land and the water (the first thing to be contaminated) for their livelihoods. Add to this the marginalization and persistent discrimination ...; Created on 28 August 2018
15. THE STRUGGLE FOR GOOD WATER GOVERNANCE CONTINUES IN EL SALVADOR: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... Water Law. A local community member looks at the San Sebastian river contaminated by acid drainage left behind by US based Commerce Group mining. Photo: International Allies From a business perspective, ...; Created on 27 August 2018
16. El Salvador: first anniversary of the mining ban A cause for celebration, but the new law faces dangers: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); Andrés McKinley - UK LAB On March 29th, 2017, the small country of El Salvador became the first nation in the world to exercise its sovereign right to say “no” to metallic mining after carefully analyzing ...; Created on 22 June 2018
17. Church in El Salvador backs law declaring clean, affordable water as a human right: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... of the resource. “Water is monopolized and contaminated by industries,” Archbishop Escobar Alas says. “There isn’t a law that guarantees the access to water for the poor, the people, the multitudes, ...; Created on 08 May 2018
18. Duterte's new warning to mining companie: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... the rock. Given what they knew and learned about mining, the farmers in the barangays near the mine were understandably afraid that contaminated water from the mine would destroy their rich agricultural ...; Created on 08 May 2018
19. The dilemma of artisanal miners after the mining prohibition in El Salvador: (Commerce Group); ... of Investment Disputes, ICSID, for $100 million US dollars. The company abandoned the community of San Sebastian shortly after losing its permit leaving hundreds of unemployed, a local river contaminated ...; Created on 07 May 2018
20. Threats to the Law Against Metallic Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... expressed that the issue should be addressed regionally, since important rivers such as the Lempa, the main watershed in the national territory, are shared across the region and can be contaminated from ...; Created on 07 May 2018

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