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Article

12 May 2015

Author:
Juan Carlos Jimenez, Common Dreams

El Salvador: Community consultations on banning mining companies are part of grassroots response to OceanaGold's arbitration claims against govt.

“Canadian Mining Companies Banned in Three Salvadorian Municipalities”, 11 May 2015 

…Nueva Trinidad became the third municipality in El Salvador to officialy declare itself a "territory free of mining" through a historic popular community consultation. Canadian mining companies have had a brutal presence in El Salvador…The new strategy is a way to bring the current mining conflict against OceanaGold Mining Corporation (formerly Pacific Rim Mining Corporation) away from judicial courts and back to the grassroots communities…in response to a law suit that could force El Salvador to pay OceanaGold $301 million... When Canadian mining companies first arrived in the territory of Chalatenango, the company didn't realize the extent of the social organization…