“Community resistance defeats Canadian mining project in Nicaragua”, 13 Oct 2015

…Residents of Rancho Grande, a municipality in the department of Matagalpa, have been fighting to protect their lands and waterways from Vancouver-based company B2Gold’s ‘El Pavón’ open pit gold mining project…On October 12, the Nicaraguan government announced that the mining project would not proceed…“The conclusion of all the environmental experts is that the project is not viable due to the impacts it would have on the surroundings, on nature, on the environment, on people’s way of life, [and] on water sources in general,” said…wife of Nicaraguan president…More than 90 percent of the municipality’s 30,000 inhabitants oppose mining, according to Rancho Grande community leader…