Goldcorp's mine in El Salvador a ‘threat’ to human rights: government
Goldcorp's mine in El Salvador a ‘threat’ to human rights: government
Cecilia Jamasmie | January 14, 2013
The government of El Salvador has asked the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (CIDH) to help the country push for a halt of Vancouver-based Goldcorp's (TSX: G), (NYSE: GG) Cerro Blanco gold-silver project in southern Guatemala, reports La Información (in Spanish).
The article says El Salvador's human rights defense attorney general (PDDH), Oscar Luna, claims Cerro Blanco mine will greatly endanger the water quality in the Lempa River, which supplies not only to Guatemala but also to Honduras and El Salvador.
Luna has requested the CIDH for a special hearing to discuss the potential threats and asked the commission to “protect the locals” who have come forward, saying the project will affect them. He went on to say Cerro Blanco is a threat to their human rights.
A study commissioned by El Salvador’s Centre for the Investigation of Investments and Commerce (CEICOM) last year found high levels of arsenic, lithium, fluoride and boron in waters around the Cerro Blanco mine.
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