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‘Do Not Flush’

4th January 20154th January 2019 Chapter 5

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Chapter 5

    • Chapter 5: Mining
    • The significance of mining in the Central American economy
    • Accusations against the mining industry
    • The use of cyanide in gold mining
    • Goldcorp shareholder resolution on free, prior and informed consent, 2010
    • ‘Do Not Flush’
  • Costa Rica
    • Las Crucitas Mine, Costa Rica
    • Costa Rica’s Supreme Court sends mining decision back to Executive and Legislature
    • Crucitas location map
    • Calgary based Infinito Gold suing Costa Rica at the World Bank’s ICSID
    • Illegal mining poisons water supply in northern Costa Rica
  • El Salvador
    • Fears of and complaints against the El Dorado Mine, El Salvador
    • Pacific Rim’s version of its work in El Salvador
    • Assassinations and other human rights violations of anti-mining activists
    • The reality of death threats to anti-mining activists in El Salvador
    • When mining firms sue
    • ICSID Tribunal Finds in Favour of Government of El Salvador in Arbitration Process
    • Australian mining company Oceana Gold finally pays $8 million compensation to the state of El Salvador
    • La minera australiana Oceana Gold finalmente pagó la compensación de $8 millones al Estado salvadoreño
    • Human rights award for Hector Berrios in El Salvador
    • Supporting the implementation of the mining ban in El Salvador
    • El Salvador’s mining ban under threat
  • Guatemala
    • The Marlin Mine, Guatemala
    • Collecting orchids and conning the locals
    • Testimony against the Marlin Mine, Guatemala
    • Testimony regarding Montana’s persecution of former employees
    • Testimony regarding health problems caused by and property rights abused by the Marlin Mine
    • Montana Exploradora billboard, San Miguel Ixtahuacán, Guatemala
    • Marlin Mine closes 2017
    • La Puya: celebrating 5 years of peaceful resistance against a Kappes Cassiday & Associates subsidiary
    • Mining sector socio-ecological conflicts in Guatemala, 2005 – 2013
    • The Peaceful Resistance of La Puya fights for the right to water
    • Pan American Silver Pressured to Shut Down Community Interference in Guatemala – Indigenous leaders in Guatemala and their allies take a stand against corporate greed in their community.
    • U.S. sanctions nickel miners in El Estor, accused of bribing Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei
    • Guatemalan Minister of Environment Reveals Authorization of Cerro Blanco Mine
  • Honduras
    • The true cost of gold in Honduras
    • Canadian companies’ role in mining-related violence
    • Goldcorp Staff Face Criminal Charges Over Mine Pollution After CAFOD Investigation
    • Environmentalist and Communicator from the Siria Valley, Honduras Denounces Threats
    • The Honduran government’s General Mining Law
    • Case study: The San Martín Mine, Siria Valley, Honduras
    • The Valley of Despair
    • Honduras: Guapinol 8 finally released
    • Oqueli Dominguez, a Guapinol land and water defender, killed in Honduras
    • US Congressional representatives seek cancellation of the Los Pinares mine in Carlos Escaleras Park
    • Congresistas de EE UU piden cancelación de licencia a la minera Los Pinares en parque Carlos Escaleras
  • Panama
    • The location of Panama’s major mines
    • The Petaquilla Mine, Panama, and opposition to it
    • Petaquilla Minerals’ own version of its mining operations
    • Presidential approval of mining damage
    • Panama Supreme Court declares mining contract illegal
    • Panamanian workers are being punished for anti-mining protests
  • Nicaragua
    • Mining company takes advantage of the crisis in Nicaragua
    • Mina la India, Nicaragua, and the British Condor Gold Mining Company
    • Nicaraguan environmental defenders harassed and criminalised – Mina la India
  • Belize
    • Vulcan Materials Company and Gales Point – an editorial from Belize
    • Vulcan Materials Company and Gales Point – a follow-up
  • ‘Green mining’
    • The notion of ‘green mining’
  • Artisanal and small-scale mining – a solution?
    • Small-scale mining in Chalatenango, El Salvador
    • Artisanal and small-scale mining

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