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About the community-led struggle For decades, transnational mining companies have targeted northern El Salvador for gold extraction. The most notable case was Pacific Rim/OceanaGold, which attempted to impose a project in Cabañas and later sued El Salvador before the...
About the project The Transmission Line IV is a major public-private partnership project infrastructure project, to be built along 330 kilometers of Panama’s Atlantic Coast. The project poses a threat to the Ngäbe and Buglé communities in the Kankintú district of the...
About the project Located in southern Georgia, the Kvemo Kartli region has long faced the harmful environmental, social and cultural impacts of gold and copper mining projects. In 2014, for example, the mining company RMG Gold destroyed the Sakdrisi...
About the community-led struggle With CRE support, Nomad Rights provided legal assistance and launched advocacy efforts supporting affected residents. They organized community gatherings, legal consultations, advocacy meetings with authorities, and...
About the project and its impacts The Hwange Thermal Power Station is the biggest power plant in Zimbabwe. Facing a shortage of electricity and an unemployment crisis, in 2018 the Zimbabwean government borrowed US$1,2 billion from the Exim Bank of China to finance an...
About the project In the upland and coastal localities of the Province of Negros Occidental on Negros Island, in the Western Visayas Region of the Philippines, local communities are resisting a new wave of mining projects. In recent years, at least 17 applications...
About the project and its impacts In the La Guajira region of northern Colombia, the Wayúu Indigenous people have faced decades of environmental and social harm linked to the operation of El Cerrejón, one of the largest open-pit coal mines in the world. The mine is...
Context and project impacts “Companies need more megawatts for mining exploitation. Consequently, the communities are left without electricity.” (CDHD) The Ruashi mine is a joint venture between Metorex Limited (a South Africa-based mining company,...
Context In 2005, local communities started to fiercely resist a planned steel plant run by the South Korean steel-making giant POSCO. At the time, the project would have been the largest foreign investment in the history of India. In March 2017, thanks to their...