Bill C-5, the One Canadian Economy Act, including the Building Canada Act, is already a fait accompli. The Conservatives are supporting the Liberal minority to ram it through the House of Commons with no meaningful deliberation and no significant amendments. It is slated to pass third reading by...

Calling on First Quantum Minerals to Definitely and Safely Close its Cobre Panama Mine
The following blog was written by Viviana Herrera of MiningWatch Canada and Paulina Personius of Earthworks.
Today 101 organizations are calling on First Quantum Minerals to close its Cobre Panama mine, drop the international arbitration against Panama, and implement environmental remediation at the...

Letter to First Quantum Minerals re: Cobre Panama
The following letter was sent to First Quantum Minerals' Chief Executive Officer and Chairman by 101 International civil society organizations and coalitions, including MiningWatch Canada.
Tristan Pascall, Chief Executive Officer, and Robert Harding, Chairman
First Quantum Minerals Ltd.
1133 Melville...

Letter to Prime Minister Carney: Reset needed in Canada-Ecuador trade deal
The following letter was sent to Prime Minister Marc Carney by 29 Canadian civil society organizations, coalitions, and unions, including MiningWatch Canada.
June 6, 2025
The Right Honourable Mark Carney
Prime Minister of Canada
Office of the Prime Minister
80 Wellington Street
Ottawa, ON K1A 0A2
cc: The...

Webinar: The UN denounces threats and stigmatization against defenders of water and the Santurbán páramo
Date: Thursday, June 5,
Time: 4 PM Colombia / 2 PM PST / 5 PM EST
This webinar will take place on Zoom with simultaneous Spanish-English interpretation.
Host - Sebastián Abad- AIDA
Panelists:
- Natalia Rincón - Committee for the Defence of Water and Páramo of Santurbán
- José López - Commit...

Open Letter: 27 Canadian Organizations Support Xinka People’s Right to Self-Determination over Canadian Mine in Guatemala
We, the undersigned Canadian civil society organizations, wish to express our deep solidarity with the Xinka people and their struggle for self-determination concerning the future of the Escobal mine, owned by Vancouver-based Pan American Silver. The Indigenous Xinka people have denied consent for...

Report Back | Hearings on the application for authorization to institute class action proceedings against Glencore (Horne Smelter) and the Government of Quebec
Rouyn-Noranda – May 16, 2025. Citizens Julie Fortier and Miguel Charlebois of Rouyn-Noranda, represented by their lawyers at Siskinds Desmeules, filed a motion for authorization to institute a class action lawsuit on October 23, 2023, in the Superior Court of Quebec against the Government of Quebec...

Communities, environmental groups voice concerns about controversial consultation process approval for Canadian mining project in Ecuador
On May 19, the Ecuadorian Chamber of Mining reported that a "free, prior and informed consultation process" had been approved for Canadian Dundee Precious Metals’ project. The Chamber says that “100% of the inhabitants of [Indigenous community of San Pedro de Escaleras] approved the advancement of...

Sacrifice Zones – The Ford Government’s Latest Plan To Stimulate the Economy
Ontario’s Conservative government can’t seem to miss an opportunity to try to solve a problem by doing the wrong thing. In the face of US President Trump’s tariffs, the Ford government is pushing through an omnibus bill that would create “Special Economic Zones” for mining and infrastructure...

Equinox Gold: Doing the right thing at Los Filos?
Equinox Gold indefinitely suspended its Los Filos mine in Guerrero, Mexico on April 1, 2025 when the company let lapse its land use and social cooperation agreements with the community of Carrizalillo. The company had been trying to pressure the community of Carrizalillo in Guerrero, Mexico into...

Open letter: 100+ International organizations call on Argentinian authorities to end the criminalization of environmental defenders in Chubut
Photo Credit: No a La Mina Esquel
On April 22, a court in the south-central province of Chubut, Argentina handed down sentences to six environmental defenders who participated in the 2021 Chubutazo – a powerful province-wide protest that successfully derailed government attempts to impose a zoning...

The Metals Company Goes Rogue in Desperate Move to Monetize the Deep Seabed
Background
Vancouver based The Metals Company (TMC) holds concessions for exploration of polymetallic nodules in the Clarion Clipperton Zone, in Pacific international waters, granted to it through the International Seabed Authority (ISA) because of its partnerships with the Pacific Island country of...

On the Day of Barrick Gold’s Annual General Meeting, Communities in the Dominican Republic Reaffirm their Call for Relocation
The following blog was written by Diana Martin of MiningWatch Canada and María Alejandra Torres García of Earthworks.
Barrick Gold’s Annual General Shareholder Meeting (AGM) is virtual again this year. After last year’s AGM, the company announced it would “continue to host virtual-only annual general...

Update on Barrick's Days in Court in Canada
In 2022, [1] and again in 2024, [2] Indigenous Kuria from villages surrounding North Mara Gold Mine in Tanzania filed cases in Canada against Barrick Gold Corporation [3] (Barrick) for alleged “acts of extreme violence committed by Mine Police in the service of Barrick in and around the North Mara...

April Newsletter: A spotlight on mining resistance in Latin America
MiningWatch has long supported communities in Latin America who are protecting their lands and livelihoods from the harmful impacts of Canadian mining. Across the board, we’re seeing environmental defenders who speak out against these projects be hit with trumped-up criminal charges in an effort to...

A global movement speaks out in support of environmental defenders in Penco, Chile
More than 100 Chilean, Canadian, and other international organizations and coalitions published an open letter today in solidarity with environmental defenders who are being harassed and persecuted for defending their territory in southern Chile from a Canadian rare earths mining company.
The company...