But when the government of El Salvador, facing mounting public concern over the consequences of mining, failed to grant the company the final permit it needed, Pacific Rim sought to extract a different kind of green: $77 million from the nation's treasury as compensation for lost profits.
ACF has alleged in papers filed in the federal court that Hunt, when approving the mine, failed to adequately consider advice from the recovery team.
Operators of 5,290 coal mines failed to present work safety licenses by a July 13 deadline set by the State Administration of Work Safety, the agency said in a statement on its Web site.
Not only did owners of the privately run coal mines fail to effectively resist the government's infringement on their rights but also they were forced to accept the adverse consequences of the campaign.
Outright shams such as Leadfield also occurred, but most ventures quickly ended after a short series of prospecting mines failed to yield evidence of significant ore (these mines now dot the entire area and are a significant hazard to anyone who enters them).
According to the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act, the performance bond provides a guarantee that funds will be available to the regulatory authority to complete the approved reclamation plan in the event that the mining company fails to do so (Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement 2000a, b).
Driving over lemons appeals to bookshops, and perhaps readers, in a way that driving over land mines apparently fails to do.
The Obama administration has established a massive, intrusive global surveillance apparat that tracks your communications and mine but evidently fails to track the movement of thousands of actual jihadists across international borders.
Last year Zynga closed the studio.All of this means that the challenge facing incumbent firms is, therefore, to work out which threats are worth worrying about and how best to respond to them a rich seam that "Big Bang Disruption" fails to mine deeply enough.
But the report fails to mine any of the widely available reporting and research that establishes the degree to which many of the suspect charities cited by the United States are controlled directly by the Saudi government or some of its ministers.
