Latin America
Government reimburses 80 millions to mining company PDF Print E-mail
Latin America - Honduras
Wednesday, 23 March 2011 15:33

hon_entremares_diquecolas3_120The DEI confirms that the mining company Entremares paid too much in tax. ‘I’m not just worried: I’m also angry because what the Government is doing is accepting the ecological damage, the damage to the health of the people in Siria Valley, accepting all the pollution caused by this company Entremares’, denounced Dolores Valenzuela, coordinator of the Honduran Association of Environmental and Agroforestry Journalists.

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ENVIRONMENTAL MINING DISASTER IN THE ALTIPLANO PDF Print E-mail
Latin America - Bolivia
Friday, 11 February 2011 11:36

Bol_Oruro_Pasivos_120FRIDAY 10 DECEMBER 2010 15:14

Toxic waste from the mines in the Bolivian Altiplano has turned what were before unique ecosystems into desert.

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Meeting for Legal Action Against Barrick PDF Print E-mail
Latin America - General
Friday, 11 February 2011 10:42

barrick_irrespons2_120Thursday, October 21st, 2010

This action seeks the application of law 64-00 to the Barrick Gold mining company, in order to ensure that the fundamental right of all Dominican citizens to a clean and safe environment is fully protected.

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Mining and the media PDF Print E-mail
Latin America - Nicaragua
Tuesday, 01 February 2011 16:26

detonacin2_alta_montaa120Thursday 26th August 2010 12:35

Do the media hold private companies to the same standards used in measuring the behaviour of the public sector? Is the delay in doing such due only to the fact that the media’s monitoring was originally aimed at just focusing on the duties of the powers of the State?

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Mercury, Another Threat to the Amazon PDF Print E-mail
Latin America - Brasil
Monday, 29 March 2010 17:56

es_lago_gija120Informal gold mining has led to more than 2,000 tons of the dangerous metal mercury being dumped into the Brazilian environment. The eight countries of the Amazon Basin will present a plan of action to protect the region in September.

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