Criminalized and threatened, women stand their ground against the Goldcorp mine in Guatemala
…22 years. Goldcorp is required to pay only 1% in royalties for the minerals they extract in an area where 97% of the people live in poverty and 79% live…
Goldcorp mired in controversy
…health of the surrounding indigenous communities. See http://www.miningwatch.ca/en/oas-human-rights-commission-urges-suspension-mining-activity-goldcorps-marlin-mine-guatemala. Goldcorp fights off calls for indigenous consent Goldcorp has been under fire at its company AGM, where it rejected a shareholder resolution…
Searching for gold at the end of the Guatemalan rainbow
…their children and huge cracks in the plaster walls of their homes as proof. GoldCorp officials argue the mine is not the source of these problems. (Among Goldcorp’s major investors…
ILO Recommends Guatemalan State Suspend Mining Operations
…This will affect Goldcorp, a Canadian company with British funding. See http://www.minesandcommunities.org/article.php?a=10024. Goldcorp is a Canadian company but among its major investors are British-based AXA Investment Managers UK Ltd (US$4.3…
Barrick Gold and its disputes in Dominican Republic
…the contract between Pueblo Viejo Dominicana Corporation (PVDC, in which Barrick holds a sixty per cent interest, and Goldcorp Inc. holds a forty per cent interest) and the Dominican government…