It’s been almost 14 years since prominent Mexican environment defender Mariano Abarca was killed while speaking out against a Canadian mine and his family is still fighting for justice. Mariano’s family and supporters are in Ottawa in June to announce important next steps in their fight for...
June 6 Webinar Promo: Mariano Abarca (June 2023)
Webinar: Canada Closed its Doors to Justice for Mariano Abarca - What's next?
Protestors gather outside Barrick Gold's 2023 shareholder meeting in Toronto. Credit: Sarah Palmer
Communities Call for Respect, Barrick Responds with Aggression
From Alaska to Papua New Guinea, communities were paying close attention to Barrick Gold’s annual shareholders meeting on May 2 in Toronto. The meeting came after seven communities affected by Barrick mines launched a Global Week of Action calling out the gap between Barrick’s supposed human...
Climate Emergency and Resource Extraction Series Starts May 10, 2023
Mineral Extraction, Renewable Energy and the Climate Emergency
SCAN! (Seniors for Climate Action Now!) together with co-sponsors, Climate Action Muskoka (CAM) and Environment Haliburton (EH!) have put together a four-part "Climate Emergency and Extraction Series" that kicks off on Wednesday, May 10, at 7pm Eastern time.
The first session will...
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Consultation on the Mining Framework: QMM Coalition Briefing Documents for Participants
Notice to members and partners of the Québec meilleure mine Coalition
From April 24 to May 19, 2023, the public is invited to participate in a consultation on...
Sangihe Islanders protest the operations of Baru Gold on their small island
Sangihe Islanders Win Another Important Legal Victory Against Canada’s Baru Gold’s Plans to Mine on the Small Island
The struggle to protect the small 736 square-kilometre Island of Sangihe from industrial gold mining by Canada’s Baru Gold Corp. (Baru) continues to play out through public demonstrations of opposition to the project by Sangihe islanders and the Save Sangihe Island Association (SSI), both on...
George Pirie speaking at the opening of Vale's South Mine Complex. (Ministry photo.)
More, Worse Mining: Ontario's Proposed Building More Mines Act
In the lead-up to the world’s biggest mining convention, Ontario premier Doug Ford and Mines Minister George Pirie announced a package of amendments to the province’s Mining Act intended to “reduce administrative burden” of developing new mines and “demonstrate responsiveness to...
State-sanctioned Violence in Peru and the Role of Canadian Mining
On January 18, 2023, as thousands of Peruvians were taking to the streets in Lima to denounce the spiralling political crisis in the country, Canadian Ambassador Louis Marcotte was meeting with the Peruvian Minister of Energy and Mines. Protests have been ongoing since December when populist...
I Will Live for Both of Us – A History of Colonialism, Uranium Mining, and Inuit Resistance
Book Review – "I Will Live for Both of Us"
The caribou are life. The existence of the “Caribou Inuit” of the Eastern Arctic is inextricable from that of the great barren-ground caribou herds, yet just as Inuit have had to fight Canada’s imposed genocidal policies, they have had to fight to protect the caribou their lives depend on....
Letter to Barrick Gold: Ongoing Concerns About Forced Evictions
We appreciate that you express concern regarding the information we have provided you in our letter of January 27, 2023, about...
Lithium mining in Mexico: Report launch
Recording - "Lithium mining in Mexico: Public interest or transnational extractivism?"
Join the Mexican Network of People Affected by Mining (REMA) and MiningWatch Canada for the presentation of the report “Lithium mining in Mexico: Public interest or transnational extractivism?” (“Explotación del litio en México: Interés público o extractivismo transnacional?") – an important...
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Manifesto for an Ecosocial Energy Transition from the Peoples of the South
A new manifesto critiques the "clean energy" transitions of the Global North and offers an alternative vision from the Global South.
"The energy transition should be part of a comprehensive vision that addresses radical inequality in the distribution of energy...
Catherine Coumans Testifies Before Standing Committee on International Trade
On February 6, 2023, MiningWatch's Asia Pacific Coordinator Catherine Coumans testified before the House of Commons Standing Committee on International Trade on the "environmental and human rights considerations regarding Canadian mining firms abroad."
The full recording can be...
Forced evictions in Komarera village right of the existing pits. Google Earth image.
Letter to Barrick Gold: Forced Evictions and Related Human Rights Abuses Ongoing at North Mara Gold Mine
In our October 2022 report, and in...
Recordings of our Panel on the Mining Boom in Quebec, Outside COP15 in Montreal
Over 130 people attended in person and remotely the conference, "A Mining Boom Sweeps Quebec: Let's talk about the rights of local populations and the violations to biodiversity." This event, translated simultaneously in French and English, included speakers from Long Point First Nation, the...
Natural Resources Canada's map of "critical minerals" in Canada. Note the number of "advanced projects," many of which will never make it to production.
How Critical Are Your Minerals? New Federal Strategy Doesn't Look Very New
A comprehensive industrial strategy is badly needed to help confront the multiple crises Canada – and all humankind – is up against: climate, biodiversity, water, pollution, inequality, migration, and more. Unfortunately, the new federal "critical minerals" strategy is not it. It's basically...
Will Canadian Mining Destroy the Amazon?
Join us on December 9 for a panel discussion to raise awareness and expose the connections between escalating deforestation rates, violent conflict and threats to biodiversity loss associated with Canadian mining in the Amazon. Belo Sun Mining Corp.'s Volta Grande Gold project aims to open...