Manual De Oslo
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Publicado: 23 de septiembre de 2012
El Salvador: what good wouldmining do?
The 2009 mining Oxfam report, Mining and Sustainable Development in Central America, lays bare the conflict over mining in Central America. On the one hand,metallic mining, has delivered healthy profits for huge corporations like Goldcorp and Metallic Rim.
But the effects of pollution and contamination, as well the meagre economic benefit to localeconomies, have been a source of great controversy and led to massive civil mobilisation against gold and metallic mining in Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua, the 3 countries which from thegeographical spine of central America.
Despite the international boom in golds and metals, the local economic benefit of mining these commodities is neglible. Mining represent just 0.5% of the GDP inGuatemala, for example. The author of the Oxfam report concludes that gold and metallic mining can never deliver sustainable economic growth to Central America.
In 2006, Guatemala’s deputy mining ministerobserved that “local opposition has reduced the number of licensesfor metal exploration in the country from 740 to 315 just in the past two years.” Honduras is close to imposing an outright ban onmining, despite significant opposition from mining interests.
TinyEl Salvador, the smallest republic in CentralAmerica, has so far almost entirely resisted gold and metallic mining. This is largely aconsequence of the work of the national roundtable against mining, the alliance of El Salvadoran civil society organisations and its allies in the North America and Canada.
Alejandro Labrador whoworks full time with the group “No to Metallic Mining El Salvador”.The groups slogan is “El salavdor is not for sale. El Slavador will be defended.”
He told Liberty: " We are very proactive ineducating people in full about the dangers of metallic mining for El Salavdor. We visit the communities who will be affected. Yes, the mining companies do to. But we expose in full the damage that can be...
The 2009 mining Oxfam report, Mining and Sustainable Development in Central America, lays bare the conflict over mining in Central America. On the one hand,metallic mining, has delivered healthy profits for huge corporations like Goldcorp and Metallic Rim.
But the effects of pollution and contamination, as well the meagre economic benefit to localeconomies, have been a source of great controversy and led to massive civil mobilisation against gold and metallic mining in Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua, the 3 countries which from thegeographical spine of central America.
Despite the international boom in golds and metals, the local economic benefit of mining these commodities is neglible. Mining represent just 0.5% of the GDP inGuatemala, for example. The author of the Oxfam report concludes that gold and metallic mining can never deliver sustainable economic growth to Central America.
In 2006, Guatemala’s deputy mining ministerobserved that “local opposition has reduced the number of licensesfor metal exploration in the country from 740 to 315 just in the past two years.” Honduras is close to imposing an outright ban onmining, despite significant opposition from mining interests.
TinyEl Salvador, the smallest republic in CentralAmerica, has so far almost entirely resisted gold and metallic mining. This is largely aconsequence of the work of the national roundtable against mining, the alliance of El Salvadoran civil society organisations and its allies in the North America and Canada.
Alejandro Labrador whoworks full time with the group “No to Metallic Mining El Salvador”.The groups slogan is “El salavdor is not for sale. El Slavador will be defended.”
He told Liberty: " We are very proactive ineducating people in full about the dangers of metallic mining for El Salavdor. We visit the communities who will be affected. Yes, the mining companies do to. But we expose in full the damage that can be...
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