The trajectory and closure of Goldcorp's Marlin mine
- Social license and prior consultation
- Social license and prior consultation
- Audited
Marlin (gold; San Miguel Ixtahuacán and Sipacapa, San Marcos; Maya Mam and Sipakapense peoples): the Sipacapa municipal consultation (June 2005) was almost unanimously against and the Constitutional Court (CC) declared it non-binding (2007); the human rights assessment Goldcorp itself commissioned (17 May 2010) called for activities to stop; the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (CIDH) granted precautionary measure MC 260-07 on 20 May 2010 asking for the mine to be suspended, modified on 9 December 2011 to drop the suspension and focus on access to uncontaminated drinking and irrigation water. Closure and remediation since June 2017, with the reputation of Guatemala's mining sector mortgaged for a decade.
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- CIDH precautionary measure MC 260-07
- granted 20 May 2010; amended 9 Dec 2011
- Marlin closure
- June 2017
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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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