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Groups demand that Canadian mining company drop suit against El Salvador to start on its independence day
September 10, 2014 For immediate release Toronto – Today, dozens of organizations from Canada, El Salvador and around the world will confront Canadian-Australian mining company Oceana Gold, whose subsidiary is suing El Salvador for $301 million (USD). El Salvador’s offence: refusing to a grant a permit to a gold mine that would contaminate 60 per…
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Open letter to OceanaGold
Jim Askew, Chairman of the Board of Directors Michael Wilkes, Managing Director and CEO We are writing in solidarity with the people of El Salvador demanding that OceanaGold and its subsidiary, Pac Rim Cayman, immediately withdraw their $301 million claim at the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) against El Salvador. The people…
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Summary of El Salvador’s Rejoinder on the Merits (11 July 2014) in Pac Rim Cayman LLC v The Republic of El Salvador
The Rejoinder is a 218-page document that chronicles, documents, and analyzes Pac Rim’s interactions and activities in El Salvador since it entered El Salvador in 2002 as well as the Salvadoran government actions and policies vis-a-vis Pac Rim and mining overall. It provides meticulous details of who did or said what and when, supported by…
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Report on mining company’s violations in San Jose del Progreso released
March 11, 2014 – 10:49am E-oaxaca reports (in Spanish), “Twenty organizations of Mexican and international civil society presented the report ‘Justice for San Jose del Progreso’, generated from a Civil Observation Mission on Human Rights held in late …
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Help to end Canadian mining crimes in Guatemala!
March 5, 2014 – 9:48am The Council of Canadians’ Blue Planet Project has partnered with the Projet d’Accompagnement Guatemala Quebec to launch a new campaign called The Money Thread. We are calling on people living in Canada and Quebec to show the…
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International Allies Support the Call for a Ban on Metal Mining in El Salvador
As a member of the International Allies against Metal Mining in El Salvador, the Blue Planet Project was recently involved in convening a fact-finding mission on water and mining in El Salvador in collaboration with allied groups from Canada, the US and El Salvador. The mission involved 45 international delegates from 12 countries and 22…
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Gold Mining and the Defense of Water in El Salvador
International Delegation to El Salvador, May 10-13, 2013 Preliminary Report From May 10-13 2013, an international delegation from 12 countries representing 22 human rights, social justice and environmental non-profit organizations and advocates, along with academics, journalists, artists and grassroots activists, carried out a three day tour of El Salvador to examine experiences with gold mining operations and…
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“Water is more precious than Gold” speaking tour coming to a community near you!
The Council of Canadians is working with allies including KAIROS, Mining Watch Canada, Breaking the Silence Maritimes and the United Church to raise awareness about community resistance to Canadian mining in communities across the country.