The consultations against Cementos Progreso's San Gabriel plant
- Social license and prior consultation
- Social license and prior consultation
- Audited
In San Juan Sacatepéquez (Maya Kaqchikel people) 34 community consultations were held with around 98% turnout against Cementos Progreso's San Gabriel project; in 2018 the Constitutional Court (CC) even declared the consultations 'non-existent', and the project advanced. The case confirms the asymmetry: the consultation that counts is the one a court orders and the Ministry of Energy and Mines (MEM) runs. The dossier flags it for deeper work in the data phase.
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- Community consultations in San Juan Sacatepéquez
- 34, ~98% against
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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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