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Guatemalans Resist Mega-Mines, Hydropower Dams

Kailash — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 20:08:27 +0000

GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala (ENS) – Amidst the growing controversy surrounding foreign-controlled resource extraction and mega-development projects in Guatemala, populist leader Bishop Alvaro Ramazzini, together with a group of community leaders, is demanding a two-year moratorium on the granting of mining concessions by the Guatemalan government.

In the municipal capital of San Marcos in northwest Guatemala, Ramazzini, with several hundred of his supporters, took to the streets last Tuesday to call on Congress for a two-year halt to the sale of mineral rights to international companies.

On-going Concerns With Goldcorp's Human Rights "Assessment" in Guatemala

Kailash — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 18:28:21 +0100

Robert Walker, Vice President Sustainability, The Ethical Funds Company; Nadime Viel Lamare, The First Swedish National Pension Fund; Arne Lööw, The Fourth Swedish National Pension Fund; Peter Chapman, Executive Director, SHARE; Helen Regnell, Research Director, GES Investment Services; John Gordon, National President, Public Service Alliance of Canada

Dear All,

RE: Ongoing Concerns with the Goldcorp Human Rights Impact Assessment

Thank you for your e-mail of March 16, 2009 with attached the revised HRIA objective and On Common Ground’s Statement on Ethical Principles.

We are

British mining companies face challenge on unjust practices

Kailash — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 20:23:45 +0100

Representatives of communities in Colombia, West Papua and the USA are in London to challenge the claims of two of Britain’s biggest mining companies that their operations are sustainable and fair.

Canada goldmine worries grow

Kailash — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 20:30:10 +0100

The withdrawal of a key player from a Human Rights Impact Assessment (HRIA) of a gold mining operation in Guatemala is causing concern among ethical investors of Goldcorp, one of the largest gold mining companies in the world.

The HRIA, paid for by the Canadian company, was set up last year in response to growing worries among ethical investors that Goldcorp’s Marlin Mine was creating tension among Mayan Indian communities in the western highlands of Guatemala.

Goldcorp is operating in a country that was torn by decades of civil war.

Civil society organizations call for a new mining law

Kailash — Fri, 08 May 2009 14:51:04 +0100

Current legislation deprives communities of benefits, allowing corporations to use up important resources.

Last November, more than 6,000 people from 49 predominantly Mayan Mam villages, made their way to the Santa Barbara town hall to vote on mining exploration licences, recently granted by the Guatemalan Ministry of Energy and Mining to Montana Exploradora, a subsidiary of Vancouver-based Canadian Goldcorp Inc.

The villagers were called to the plebiscite by their community leaders and were asked by Mayor Jesús Sales, whether or not they approved of four mining prospection licenses in

CAFOD and Canada's Development & Peace demand action from mining giant Goldcorp as villagers fear gold mine is poisoning people

Kailash — Wed, 13 May 2009 11:03:50 +0100

Catholic aid agencies CAFOD in the UK and Development & Peace in Canada are calling on multi-million pound mining giant Goldcorp to ensure their San Martin mine in Honduras does not leave a toxic legacy when it closes at the end of 2009.

The San Martin mine in the Siria Valley is the largest opencast gold mine in Honduras, run by Entre Mares, a Honduran subsidiary wholly owned by the Canadian-US company Goldcorp Inc.

Goldcorp's performance tarnished by accusations in Central America at AGM

Kailash — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 19:53:51 +0100

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Disputed Property Sale in Guatemala Results in Death Threats, Charges-Canada's Goldcorp agrees to negotiate; police, military ar

Kailash — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:01:47 +0100

Goldcorp’s Marlin mine borders the village of Agel, where the company has been trying to convince locals to sell their land for nearly eight years.

THREE COMMUNITY "CONSULTAS" ABOUT GOLDCORP's MINING IN GUATEMALA: THREE COMMUNITIES SAY "NO A LA MINA, SI A LA VIDA"

Kailash — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 12:58:24 +0100

While the Canadian mining giant Goldcorp Inc.

Women fight South American mines

Kailash — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:44:04 +0000

UK urged to pressure South American governments to refuse mining licences

Women say mining is damaging their homes and environment

A group of South American women arrived in Britain this week to highlight the plight of indigenous people around the world fighting international mining companies.
In a desperate attempt to save their land and livelihoods, women from Ecuador, Peru and Guatemala will lobby the UK government and European parliament to put pressure on their governments to refuse mining licences.