(READ THE FULL ARTICLE IN THE GUARDIAN HERE) Nuestros amigos del comité de MOFGA mantienen una lucha contra el uso de sustancias conocidas como PFAS. Estos se han utilizado ampliamente desde la década de 1950 en productos que van desde el envasado de alimentos hasta la espuma contra incendios. Las PFAS se han reconocido […]
MOFGA’s 2020 Common Ground Country Fair had to go virtual this year due to the COVID19 pandemic. The Bangor and MOFGA committees rose to the occasion and created a video where they could share what they learned during the December 2019 delegation to El Salvador. Here’s their video: Please check all the other […]
Are you aware of our 2018 Speaking Tour? Of our upcoming popular education workshops? Of our National Gathering? Are you interested in knowing where Bernardo Belloso, from CRIPDES, and our Zulma Tobar will be heading this time? If so, this is your lucky day. You can read our (still in progress) itinerary below: 2018 […]
Testimony to the Bureau of Environmental Protection re chapter 200 mining regulations 2016 Consider the prospect of an unremitting man-made catastrophe whose damaging effects persist longer than human life spans, or the life of a corporation, longer than the tenure of government administrations, but last for centuries. Though man-made, the damage plays out in geologic […]
March 30, 2012 Mining companies are not just aiming to start operating in El Salvador, they also are trying to loosen regulations and move in to states like Wisconsin and Maine. As we reported in February, Wisconsin is facing the destructive effects of corporate mining with proposed gold and iron mines and the expansion of […]