Panama: Catholic Environmental Network Opposes Mining
REMAM has urged Panama’s National Assembly to reject a deal with a Canadian copper company’s subsidiary.
REMAM has urged Panama’s National Assembly to reject a deal with a Canadian copper company’s subsidiary.
Learn about the choices before us and ways to take action.
Three organizations from the Global South will provide this webinar to discuss the consequences of "clean energy" production on mining countries in the Global South. The extraction and processing of minerals for the production of solar panels, air generators, batteries and new technologies cause important social and environmental impacts, often making the concept of "clean energy" a contradiction in terms. We must ask ourselves: clean for whom?
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Dialogue of the Peoples (Africa - Latin America)
On January 17, Canada’s Trudeau administration announced a new ombudsperson to oversee Canadian mining, oil, and gas companies after more than a decade of pressure from Canadian human rights advocates, affected communities, and other organizations in solidarity with communities harmed by Canadian extractive industries.
The problem of illegal logging in forests in the developing world represents a microcosm of the phenomenon of exploitation of natural resources by corrupt governing elites that wreak environmental damage while simultaneously diverting government revenue away from public goods.
The following article was prepared by Alfonso Buzzo, who is an intern with the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns’ Faith-Economy-Ecology project, and was published in the March-April 2015 NewsNotes.
Over the last four days, less than a month after President Perez Molina visited the town of Barillas in the department of Huehuetenango and announced the formation of a formal space for dialogue between communities, the government, and the hydroelectric companies Ecoener Hidralia Energía/Hidro Santa Cruz S.A., police and military actions have markedly increased.