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1. Ottawa must disclose how it aided Goldcorp in human rights dispute, Federal Court will hear: (Mining and Human Rights); CNCA Today the Federal Court of Canada hears a case alleging that the Canadian government is improperly withholding information about its diplomatic interventions on behalf of a Canadian company accused ...; Created on 02 March 2021
2. Disputes against governments under investment treaties: a growing trend in the mining industry in 2020: (ISDS); ... domestic legal system may not provide an adequate remedy. For example, an investor may not wish to settle disputes before a host state's domestic courts for reasons of (i) fear of bias; or (ii) unfamiliarity ...; Created on 06 January 2021
3. Canadian corporate greed on display in Mexico mining dispute: (Regional News); Jen Moore | Canadian Dimension As gold prices soar to record levels, the Los Filos gold mine in Mexico, one of the country’s largest, has sat idle since early September after its owner, Vancouver-based ...; Created on 28 November 2020
4. ICSID decision buoys El Salvador in mining dispute: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... In response to the moratorium, in 2009 a Pacific Rim subsidiary called Pac Rim Cayman took El Salvador to the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes, or ICSID, an arbitration panel ...; Created on 10 November 2016
5. World Bank Tribunal Weighs Final Arguments in El Salvador Mining Dispute: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); Carey L. Biron WASHINGTON, Sep 16 2014 (IPS) - A multilateral arbitration panel here began final hearings Monday in a contentious and long-running dispute between an international mining company and ...; Created on 17 September 2014
6. World Bank Tribunal Weighs Final Arguments in El Salvador Mining Dispute: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); Carey L. Biron WASHINGTON, Sep 16 2014 (IPS) - A multilateral arbitration panel here began final hearings Monday in a contentious and long-running dispute between an international mining company and ...; Created on 17 September 2014
7. Consensus reached to reform dispute resolutions under Investment Law: (FTAs & ISDS); ... Commission of the Legislative Assembly agreed today to issue a Favorable Resolution to amend Article 15 of the "Investment Law" which relates to the settlement of disputes. The Members of the Legislative ...; Created on 09 July 2013
8. Archbishop of El Salvador suggests the use international mechanisms to solve dispute over mine: (Mining and Human Rights); ACAN EFE News Agency, El Salvador The Archbishop of San Salvador, José Luis Escobar, suggested Sunday that the government should go to international organizations if the threat from a gold mine in Guatemala ...; Created on 10 June 2013
9. Multiple Countries Rejecting Investor State Dispute Settlement: (FTAs & ISDS); Multiple Countries Rejecting Investor State Dispute Settlement By Janet M Eaton, Phd. April 12th, 2012 There appears to be a growing awareness that NAFTA-style foreign investor privileges and ...; Created on 10 May 2012
10. El Salvador’s Historic Metal Mining Ban Is in Danger: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... which it was suing at the World Bank’s International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) for denying Pacific Rim, a subsidiary of OceanaGold, an exploitation license in the northern Cabañas ...; Created on 06 April 2023
11. La Mesa releases a memoir of their collective struggle to ban mining in El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes ICSID. The support of international organizations helped find technical deficiencies in the arguments of mining companies, and also helped ...; Created on 29 June 2021
12. Anglo American files lawsuit against Colombia: (ISDS); ... with the World Bank's International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID). The director of the government's legal defense agency, Camilo Gomez, told Argus that the state made a strong attempt ...; Created on 08 June 2021
13. In Guatemala, Harris Should Address U.S. Policies That Put Corporations Over People: (Mining and Human Rights); ... in Guatemala, nor did it ever obtain a construction permit to build its mine in the first place. Such injustice is precisely what the Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) framework enshrined in thousands ...; Created on 07 June 2021
14. Scientists, fishers say new mining deals to cause more damage than good: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... president admitted that he had only joked about riding a jet ski to Panatag Shoal and planting a Philippine flag there to assert the country’s territorial integrity amid its dispute with China over the ...; Created on 24 May 2021
15. Why Canada is at the centre of global mining atrocities: (Mining and Human Rights); ... largely a smokescreen. “It does not have teeth at all,” said Lang. The office’s operations are grounded firmly in the logic of corporate social responsibility, and leans heavily on dispute resolution ...; Created on 12 May 2021
16. Canada’s Mining Industry Is Spreading Havoc Around the World — With Justin Trudeau’s Support: (Mining and Human Rights); ... Mexico. AMLO has also condemned the failure of Canadian mining companies to pay outstanding taxes. For their part, Canadian diplomats have gone to bat for several companies embroiled in a tax dispute ...; Created on 07 May 2021
17. A New Environmentalist Playbook An improbable victory in El Salvador offers lessons for grassroots activists worldwide: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... to future campaigns. The water defenders are guided by three basic strategies: maintaining a positive message, recruiting unlikely allies, and building international support. From early on in the dispute, ...; Created on 23 April 2021
18. Swiss mining transnational Glencore in the Andes: (General mining reports ); ... with metals in their blood in Peru; and outsourcing, child and labor, and a million-dollar lawsuit under an Investor-State Dispute Arbitration (ISDS) case in Bolivia. Glencore is one of the world’s largest ...; Created on 22 April 2021
19. El Salvador’s Water Defenders and the Fight Against Toxic Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... The authors also emphasize the absurdity of institutions like the World Bank’s International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID). Much of the tension in The Water Defenders stems from ...; Created on 11 April 2021
20. Gold mine expansion could produce $2.5 billion. But environmental problems linger: (OceanaGold); ... to dispute or uncertainty: cash is really it,’’ said Guild, a Sierra Club lawyer who has been in discussions about the mine expansion with lawyers for OceanaGold. Haile has proposed to add about $16 ...; Created on 30 March 2021

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