Commentary
El Salvador Takes a Giant Step in Protecting its People
Columnist
the culprit was OceanaGold, an Australian-Canadian corporation and the fight the big boys put up was a classic. They tried everything to thwart Salvadorans in their fight to protect their water, which was threatened with pollution of a very toxic nature and gold mining is especially toxic.
El Salvador’s Legislative Assembly has passed a law that bans all metal mining projects and, by doing so, has saved the nation’s water that is vital…
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