Water Justice News
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Canadian-based organizations express solidarity with Colombian rural peasant farmers’ strike
We the undersigned organizations stand in solidarity with Colombian rural peasant farmers who along with other members of civil society, including miners, teachers, medical professionals, transport workers, and students have undertaken nationwide stri…
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Prepayment water meters in Africa: The same old story?
The Mazibuko case against the City of Johannesburg’s installation of prepayment meters (with automatic cut-off valves) went all the way to the South African Constitutional Court in 2009. Although the claimants ultimately lost the case, there is no d…
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Call for Solidarity – The International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal (ICJB)
The Blue Planet Project endorses this call for solidarity from the International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal ———– The International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal (ICJB) invites messages/actions of solidarity for the soon-to-be 30 year struggle for justice in Bhopal, India. ICJB is a coalition of disaster survivors’ groups, environmental and social justice groups led…
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VIDEO: RT program rebuts Nestle’s spin
Abby Martin is the host of RT America’s ‘Breaking the Set’ program. RT, also known as Russia Today, is an international multilingual Russian-based television network. The channel broadcasts through 30 satellite and 500 cable operators to 550 million p…
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Calgary mining company threatens FIPA challenge against Costa Rica by October
Photo: The Crucitas open-pit mineJune 22, 2013 – 11:43pm
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NEWS: Calgary mining company threatens FIPA challenge against Costa Rica by October
The Tico Times reports, “Canadian mining company Infinito Gold on (June 20) threatened Costa Rica with a billion-dollar lawsuit after the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court, or Sala IV, rejected a company appeal to strike down an earlier court’s annulment of a mining concession for Las Crucitas, a planned open-pit gold mine in the…
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VIDEO: Karunananthan on the Cerro Blanco mine in Guatemala
On May 12, Blue Planet Project campaigner Meera Karunananthan travelled to the community near the Cerro Blanco mine in southwestern Guatemala. This mine, owned by Vancouver-based Goldcorp, is located just 18 kilometres from the El Salvador border and…
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Timeline of Skouries mine struggle
A New Statesman article sets the scene of the anti-mining fight in Greece. It says Ierissos is a remote village on the Chalkidiki Peninsula – the ‘three fingers’ that stick out from the northern Greek mainland into the Aegean. One road out of the …
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VIDEO: Karunananthan on the Cerro Blanco mine in Guatemala
On May 12, Blue Planet Project campaigner Meera Karunananthan travelled to the community near the Cerro Blanco mine in southwestern Guatemala. This mine, owned by Vancouver-based Goldcorp, is located just 18 kilometres from the El Salvador border and poses a direct threat to the Lempa River which provides drinking water for three million Salvadorans. Watch…
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UPDATE: Timeline of Skouries mine struggle
A New Statesman article sets the scene of the anti-mining fight in Greece. It says Ierissos is a remote village on the Chalkidiki Peninsula – the ‘three fingers’ that stick out from the northern Greek mainland into the Aegean. One road out of the village leads to Thessaloníki, the other to the sacred Orthodox site…