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<ref>http://www.transparency.org/cpi2014/results,</ref>
పనామా రేటింగ్లో ఎల్ సాల్వడోర్ 175 దేశాలలో 94వ స్థానంలో ఉంది. [[కోస్టారీకా]] 47 స్థానంలో ఉంది.
=== పసిఫిక్ రిం మైనింగ్ ===
'''Pacific Rim Mining Corp. sues El Salvador for $301 million'''
According to the Center for International Environmental Law, "the Pacific Rim Mining Corporation (Pac Rim) has attempted to bypass El Salvador’s environmental protection laws using investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) to sue the country for $77 million USD – as of July 2014 now more than $300 million USD – under the US-Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA). El Salvador has upheld a nationally supported mining moratorium and is now defending itself against the Pac Rim allegations.".
<ref>http://www.ciel.org/HR_Envir/PacRim_Home.html</ref>
After having lost its intent to sue under CAFTA-DR, in 2012, The World Bank arbitration panel ruled that the Canada-based company cannot use CAFTA, but the case could be pursued under Salvadoran national investment law under [[International Center for the Settlement of Investment Disputes]]. The Canadian owned company, then opened a subsidiary in the United States and continued suing. In September 2014, a tribunal of the World Bank's International, the [[International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes|ICSID]] was supposed to rule in the dispute. As of April 2015, no news on the ruling have been released, but the Salvadoran government is confident that it will be favorable. The government has received overwhelming worldwide and local support for its cause, trying to ban mining in Salvadoran territory. Costa Rica has banned mining on Costa Rican soil.
There is a strong popular rejection of mining companies in El Salvador due to the scarcity of local resources; mining companies are not traditionally perceived in a favorable light in El Salvador, (Cabanas Department) due to their poor environmental record. Pacific Rim is not the best example of a good friend of the environment. The news of a powerful corporation suing a small country has generated considerable controversy worldwide. Robin Broad and John Cavanagh of the [[Foreign Policy in Focus]], an international network of policy analysts and advocates, presented a first hand report on the situation.
<ref>http://fpif.org/meet-company-suing-el-salvador-right-poison-water/</ref>
The authors actually traveled to El Salvador and interviewed the locals who are directly involved in the drama. According to an [[Institute for Policy Studies|IPS]] article of September, 2014, "Last year, [[OceanaGold]] purchased Pacific Rim, despite the latter’s primary asset being the El Salvador gold-mining project, which has never been allowed to go forward. Although OceanaGold did not respond to a request for comment for this story, last year the company noted that it would continue with the arbitration case while also seeking "a negotiated resolution to the … permitting impasse". For its part, the Salvadoran government says it has halted the permitting process not only over environmental and health concerns but also over procedural matters. While these include Pacific Rim’s failure to abide by certain reporting requirements, the company also appears not to have gained important local approvals. Under Salvadoran law, an extractive company needs to gain titles, or local permission, for any lands it wants to develop. Yet Pacific Rim had such access to just 13 percent of the lands covered by its proposal, according to Oxfam America, a humanitarian and advocacy group.".
<ref>http://www.ipsnews.net/2014/09/world-bank-tribunal-weighs-final-arguments-in-el-salvador-mining-dispute/</ref>
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