Mining and Dams
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Bear Creek threatens investor-state challenge against Peru
February 19, 2014 – 6:50pm Vancouver-based Bear Creek Mining has been pushing for its controversial Santa Ana silver mine despite massive protests in 2011 against it and concerns that the mine could pollute the sacred Lake Titicaca. Now they have issue…
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Goldcorp may expand Marlin mine into Sipakapan territory
January 20, 2014 – 4:45pm Rights Action tells us, “On January 14, 2014, Guatemalan President … Otto Perez Molina, ordered troops to the Mayan municipality of Sipakapa … in western Guatemala. The armed forces arrived on behalf of Goldcorp Inc. that …
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Goldcorp mining operations continue to expand
January 12, 2014 – 8:30am The Montreal Gazette reports, “(Vancouver-based) Goldcorp Inc. said it is spending US$570 million this year on its Éléonore mine in Quebec’s James Bay region to get it into initial production of 40,000 to 60,000 ounces in …
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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 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…
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Action alert: Help stop destructive Canadian mining in Greece!
Vancouver-based Eldorado Gold is taking advantage of the economic crisis in Greece to push through a combination of environmentally destructive open pit and underground mines against the will of communities and local governments. It is one of the first projects to benefit from a new fast-track law in Greece designed to enable foreign investors like…
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El Salvador mining ban could establish a vital water security precedent
OP-ED posted in The Guardian’s PovertyMatters Blog, June 10, 2013 El Salvador’s battle to protect its water by becoming the first country to ban metal mining could have a wide-ranging resonance No drying up … with their water supply threatened, Salvadorans are hitting back at mining companies such as Pacific Rim. Five hundred scientists meeting in…
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NEWS: Barrick investors sue Barrick Gold over Pascua Lama mine
A media release notes that a law firm representing investors in Barrick Gold have filed a class action law suit in New York state saying the company made “false and misleading statements and concealed material information relating to the cost and time-to-production projections for the Company’s Pascua-Lama Project…” “The Complaint alleges that during the Class…