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...
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...
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...