Several mining companies from Canada operate in Central America. Some of them include Breakwater Resources (Honduras), Inmet Mining Corp (Panama), Petaquilla Minerals Ltd (Panama), B2Gold Corp (Nicaragua), Argonaut Gold (Guatemala) and GoldCorp (Guatemala and Honduras).

The ruling by the Court obliges these companies to conduct integral studies assessing environmental impact, and making such studies available and understandable for public review.

According to experts, companies used to dissimulate the negative effects of their projects by presenting separate environmental studies. The ruling now forces them to conduct integral, comprehensive studies, and make them available for public revision.

Source: prensalibre.com

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