The 2005 Sipacapa consultation on the Marlin mine
- Social license and prior consultation
- Social license and prior consultation
- Audited
In June 2005 the municipal consultation in Sipacapa on the Marlin mine produced an almost unanimous vote against and the Ministry of Energy and Mines (MEM) challenged its validity; that is where the wave of community consultations as a territorial tool begins. In 2007 the Constitutional Court (CC) declared the plebiscite non-binding and insufficient to halt operations: municipal consultations are a valid expression but carry no veto, and the decision on extractive projects stays with MEM. The case number of that 2007 judgment (1179-2005?) remains to be confirmed.
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- The death of State-licensed projects in Guatemala
- Guatemala's ratification of ILO Convention 169 and its obligations
- Absence of a prior consultation law and Initiative 5450
- Over 100 community consultations without binding force
- The Constitutional Court's four stages of prior consultation
- The missing consultation law as an investor risk
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