MiningWatch Canada adds our name to the following joint letter along with 130+ organizations from around the world, urging Member States to put justice, equity, rights, and accountability at the heart of critical mineral governance. Click here for the full list of signatories.
Excellencies,
Two...
MiningWatch Canada adds our signature to the following letter, calling for anti-SLAPP legislation to be adopted in Alberta. See the full list of signatories here.
We, the undersigned, are Canadian journalists, digital media creators, writers, members of civil society organizations, labour unions...
MiningWatch Canada adds our signature to the following statement in solidarity with the communities of Las Naves, San Luis de Pambil, and Zapotal, and to the Ecumenical Commission on Human Rights (CEDHU) in Ecuador. Communities have faced repression, widespread criminalization, and the rapid...
A couple of weeks ago, a little-known Canadian junior mining company appointed former U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) Kristi Noem to its advisory board. The backlash from Canadians was swift. The company, NovaRed, was flooded with messages telling its President and CEO Brian Goss that...
Today, MiningWatch Canada joined allies in the Canadian Network on Corporate Accountability (CNCA) in denouncing the federal government's decision to shut down the Office of the Canadian Ombudsperson for Responsible Enterprise (CORE).
MiningWatch has long advocated for an effective Ombudsperson who...
The following was co-written by Diana Martin (MiningWatch Canada) and Jan Morrill (Earthworks).
As the world observes World Environment Day 2026, global attention is increasingly focused on the urgent need for climate action and environmental protection. This year’s theme, “Inspired by Nature. For...
Today MiningWatch Canada attended Barrick Mining’s virtual Annual General Meeting. MiningWatch’s Catherine Coumans attended as a proxy holder. She input the four questions below well before the request for questions was made by CEO Mark Hill. When it came time for someone appointed by Barrick to...
On Wednesday, April 15, Catherine Coumans, MiningWatch Canada's Research Coordinator, presented on behalf of the Canadian Network for Corporate Accountability to the All Party Parliamentary group on Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery. In her presentation, Catherine raised serious concerns...
When the BC government introduced Bill 15, the Infrastructure Projects Act last May, Premier David Eby said it was needed in order to speed up the construction of dams and major highways in response to economic pressure from US tariffs. When it passed into law less than a month later, Infrastructure...
Yesterday, people from the small Philippine Island of Marinduque came together to commemorate the mining disaster of March 24, 1996, that filled their Boac River with mine waste from the mountains, where the Marcopper Mine was located, to the sea. The mine was closed after the disaster and remains...
Thirty years ago today, on the Philippine Island of Marinduque, people woke up to the largest mining disaster in Philippine history unfolding outside their homes. A major river on the island was filling up with mine waste from the mountains to the sea after a mine waste containment structure at the...