The Garcia v. Tahoe Resources case and its precedent
- Social license and prior consultation
- Social license and prior consultation
- not audited
After Escobal's private security fired on protesters (April 2013), a civil suit was filed in British Columbia (June 2014); the BC Court of Appeal accepted Canadian jurisdiction (26 January 2017) and the Supreme Court of Canada declined to review (8 June 2017) — a precedent for liability in the parent company's home country. Pan American Silver (which bought Tahoe in February 2019) settled and issued a public apology on 30 July 2019.
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- Pan American Silver settlement and public apology
- 30 Jul 2019
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Related records
- 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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