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...

Take action and sign the new parliamentary e-petition calling on the Government of Canada to respect the Xinka people’s right to self-determination in relation to the Canadian-owned Escobal mine in Guatemala.

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...

On Monday, March 13, Rodrigue Turgeon, MiningWatch Canada's National Program Co-Lead, presented a brief to the House of Commons Standing Committee on National Defence as part of its study on the links between national defence, national security, and critical minerals. In his testimony, Rodrigue...

Civil society and mining-affected communities are urging their legislators to protect water over mining interests.

Since Argentinian President Javier Milei’s government introduced a bill to weaken the country’s Glacier Law in December, Argentina’s news and social media landscape has been dominated by...

The undersigned national and international human rights and environmental organisations express their deep concern over the sentence by the Criminal Court in Quevedo, Los Ríos province, sentencing defenders Piedad Guaranda, María Ortega and Wilfrido Escobar to four (4) years in prison and the...

Local officials and the Canadian company say no spill occurred. However, affected communities worry about health impacts as no conclusive cause for the dead fish downstream of the Veladero mine has yet been identified.

This week, the Canadian ambassador to Ecuador, Craig Kowalik, invited the Federation of Indigenous and Peasant Organizations of Azuay (FOA) and other community representatives from the páramo de Kimsakocha for a meeting to gain firsthand knowledge of their local reality, their priorities, and their...

Above Ground and MiningWatch Canada co-organized an event series unpacking various issues surrounding so-called “critical minerals”. The growing global focus on prioritizing the exploration and extraction of minerals deemed of critical importance to economic security, defence and an energy...

On International Human Rights Defenders Day, Colombian environmental defenders and international allies are questioning Canadian authorities’ ongoing silence as these defenders continue to face serious threats to their safety related to their activism against an Aris Mining Corporation project in...

The following letter was sent to President of Panama, José Raúl Mulino, Minister of the Environment Juan Carlos Navarro, Minister of Commerce and Industries Julio Moltó, and First Quantum CEO, Tristan Pascall, by five international organizations, including MiningWatch Canada.

MiningWatch Canada expresses our solidarity and support for the parliamentary petition to the government of South Africa presented by Mining Affected Communities United in Action (MACUA) on mining accountability, capital flight, and community abandonment, and for the relief requested therein.

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The Carney government has doubled down on its extractivist agenda with the announcement of a second round of designated “projects of national importance.” The list includes several mining projects: the Sisson tungsten-molybdenum project in New Brunswick, the Nouveau Monde graphite project in Québec...

The Québec meilleure mine coalition is pleased to present the program for its second conference, with the theme "Critical and Strategic Minerals Policy: What Voices/Pathways for the Environment and Communities." Workshops and panels will be on the agenda to sharpen our knowledge and discuss the...

On September 16, thousands of people in the canton of Cuenca in Southern Ecuador’s Azuay Province took to the streets in one of the biggest marches in the recent history of Ecuador, to demand an end to industrial mining in the high altitude paramo de Kimsakocha, a crucial water source for the...