Goldcorp In Guatemala: Water Deprivation And Militarized Expansion. On January 14, 2014, Guatemalan President, and former general Otto Perez Molina, ordered troops to the Mayan municipality of Sipakapa, department of San Marcos, in western Guatemala. The armed forces arrived on behalf of Goldcorp Inc. that is trying to illegally expand its “Marlin” mine into Sipakapan territory. In 2005, the Mayan Sipakapan people overwhelmingly rejected Goldcorp’s mine in their territory in a legally binding community consultation, documented in the film “Sipakapa Is Not For Sale”: On January 14, 2014, thousands of campesinos from Sipakapa, San Miguel Ixtahuacan and 5 other municipalities came to Sipakapa to resist the expansion of Goldcorp that is trying to carry out exploration activities at the “Los Chocoyos” site in the village of Pie de la Cuesta, Sipakapa.
Photo: Cpo Comunicacion During the peaceful protest, a mining company employee signed a public agreement with Sipakapan community members, agreeing on: Water Deprivation In San Miguel Ixtahuacan What to do. SA not immune to US-size earthquakes. SA not immune to US-size earthquakes South Africa is not famous as an earthquake hotspot. But the country is not immune and an earthquake can be every bit as devastating as a Los Angeles quake, seismologists in South Africa are quick to point out. The stable tectonic setting of South Africa means that large earthquakes have been comparatively rare. Most destructive earthquakes are of tectonic origin, and occur at the boundaries of the earth’s major plates. But low-intensity tremors are a daily occurrence in South Africa, thanks to our mining legacy, the majority of which rumbles by unnoticed. Like the earthquake that rocked Johannesburg’s world this week, most seismic events are associated with the deep gold-mining areas.
The Council of Geoscience says most seismic events in the region measure below five and originate in the mining areas. Research has shown seismicity has increased in parts of the country where the mines reach greater depths. GOLDEN TIMES - CASSANDRA'S TREASURE - Smallplanet Documentary Production House - Iceweasel. DURATION: 57 min. The exploitation of the country’s mineral wealth is projected as the most reasonable solution to deal with the economic crisis that plagues Greece. The Greek state has ceded its mining rights over 31.700 ha of land in northern Halkidiki, a region rich in gold, copper and other metals, to the Canadian multinational company Eldorado Gold. However, many of the region’s inhabitants, who have been resisting the construction of a goldmine for years, claim that this investment will cause irreparable damage to the environment and the benefits will be fewer than the losses.
“Cassandra’s Treasure” presents a detailed picture of the modern Greek state before and during the crisis period. Original shooting format: HD 1080p25 / Sound: Dolby Stereo / Languages: Greek / Subtitles: English The forest of Skouries with its perennial beeches and oaks is one of the few remaining forests in Greece that has escaped from fires and predatory exploitation. For years now, Mr. Eldorado Gold Skouries Greece Project Update - Iceweasel. Press Release Eldorado Gold ("the Company", "Eldorado", or "we") (TSX:ELD)(NYSE:EGO) confirms that shortly after midnight on Sunday, February 17, 2013 a masked and armed group of approximately 50 persons illegally entered the Skouries Project in the Municipality of Aristotle, Halkidiki, Greece. The armed attackers assaulted two of our security personnel. One sustained injuries which required hospitalization and has subsequently been released.
The group then set fire to our temporary construction offices as well as several trucks and heavy equipment, most of which are owned by local contractors. The fires have been extinguished and the site secured. The Company is cooperating with the police and other relevant authorities to ensure the ongoing safety of our employees and assets. Eldorado is a gold producing, exploration and development company actively growing businesses in Turkey, China, Brazil, Greece, and Romania.
Paul N. Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements. Gold mining ravages Peru. For the first time, researchers have been able to map the true extent of gold mining in the biologically diverse region of Madre De Dios in the Peruvian Amazon. The team combined field surveys with airborne mapping and high-resolution satellite monitoring to show that the geographic extent of mining has increased 400% from 1999 to 2012 and that the average annual rate of forest loss has tripled since the Great Recession of 2008.
Until this study, thousands of small, clandestine mines that have boomed since the economic crisis have gone unmonitored. The research is published in the online early edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences the week of October 28, 2013. The team, led by Carnegie's Greg Asner in close collaboration with officials from the Peruvian Ministry of Environment, used the Carnegie Landsat Analysis System-lite (CLASlite) to detect and map both large and small mining operations. CLASlite differs from other satellite mapping methods.