El Salvador, Prizing Water Over Gold, Bans All Metal Mining
By GENE PALUMBO and ELISABETH MALKINMARCH 29, 2017
SAN SALVADOR — Lawmakers in El Salvador voted overwhelmingly on Wednesday to prohibit all mining for gold
and other metals, making the country the first in the world to impose a nationwide ban on metal mining, environmental activists said.
" Mr. Wright, the legislator who worked to persuade his business-friendly party to support the law, said
that climate change was already having an impact on El Salvador. that We are talking about an issue that is a life-or-death issue for the country.
The vote in the Legislative Assembly turned a decade-old moratorium on mining into law, halting efforts
by international companies to tap the gold belt running across the northern provinces of El Salvador.
Johnny Wright Sol wrote that Today in El Salvador, water won out over gold,
Central said that It’s a wonderful moment for the first country to evaluate the costs and benefits of metallic mining and say no,
Mr. McKinley said that Mining is an industry whose primary and first victim is water,
