MiningWatch Canada received a letter from Grant Stapon at Bennett Jones, a law firm representing TVI Pacific. The letter threatens possible litigation against MiningWatch Canada, the board of directors, and Catherine Coumans.

MadreSelva, a Guatemalan environmental group, commissioned independent hydrogeologist Robert Moran to review Glamis Gold's Marlin project Environmental Impact Assessment. His report shows shocking inadequacies in the EIA as well as a refusal by the company to provide any further information or...

Finance and Audit CommitteeToronto Stock ExchangeP.O. Box 4503rd floor, 130 King Street W.Toronto, OntarioM5X 1J2 CanadaDear Committee Members,On behalf of the Local Government of the Municipality of Cotacachi, we address this letter to you to express a cordial salutation, as well as our best wishes...

English translation of original document in Spanish.

Notes for a presentation by Jamie Kneen as part of the Studies in National and International Development Speakers Series, Queen’s University, March 1, 2005: When Joan Kuyek spoke to this gathering last year, she discussed the need to regulate Canadian mining companies operating internationally...

The Ontario Mining Action Network (OMAN) was launched in Sudbury, Ontario on December 5, 2004, at the conclusion of a two-day workshop on mining in Ontario. Representatives from First Nation communities, labour organizations, environmental groups and mining-affected communities from Southern and...

“Dena nenn Sogga neh ’ine” (Protectors and Keepers of the Land)

We, the Tahltan People, historically a sovereign nation have occupied our traditional territories since time immemorial. Our culture is organized through a matrilineal clan system. This has always been and remains our broad governing...

The mining industry in British Columbia has mounted an unprecedented campaign for access to new mineral lands and wilderness areas on First Nations Lands in British Columbia. First Nations are fighting back on many fronts. In all cases, their resources are out-stripped by the mining industry and its...

Column by Stephen Hume, The Vancouver Sun, February 5, 2005 Last June, the province was trumpeting breakthrough relationships with first nations as a welcome to new investment capital for British Columbia's mining sector. Initiatives with first nations like the Tahltan of northwestern B.C...

February 21, 2005

The Honourable Stephane Dion
Minister of the Environment
House of Commons
Ottawa ON K1A 0A6
Fax: 819-953-3457

The Honourable Ujjal Dosanjh
Minister of Health
House of Commons
Ottawa ON K1A 0A6
Fax: 613-952-1154

The Honourable Carolyn Bennett
Minister of State for...

J. Spencer Lanthier
Chair, Finance and Audit Committee
Toronto Stock Exchange
P.O. Box 450
3rd floor, 130 King Street W.
Toronto, ON M5X 1J2

Dear Mr. Lanthier and Committee members:

I am writing to ask what you have done to resolve the apparent anomalies in the information provided by Ascendant Holdings...

MITSUBISHI AND THE WORLD BANK COME TO INTAG

Exploration for metallic minerals began in the Junín area with the arrival of Bishimetals in the early 1990s. Junín is a community located in Intag, a 2,200 km² expanse of cloud forests and farms in northwestern Ecuador (Cotacachi County,...

Backgrounder by Catherine Coumans, February 2005

• October 2001: Then-President Georges Mandaoue and Secretary General Regis Vendegou of the Kanak Sénat Coutumier, visited Canada. They met with Inco executives in Toronto. They made it very clear that Inco had failed to consult with local NGOs...

Indigenous and non-indigenous solidarity groups picketed Glamis Gold's 2005 annual meeting. Photos and background can be found at the Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs web site. The protestors handed out a flyer: Failure to Disclose Material Risk: Are you aware of how Glamis Gold Limited...

On Nov. 3, 2004, Canada’s Ambassador to Guatemala, James Lambert, wrote an article in Prensa Libre, in which he described the economic benefits and the social and environmental responsibility demonstrated by the mining industry in Canada. The history of mining in Canada, as with other industries...

Most of the pollutants released by the creation of tailings and waste rock during mining are exempt from the National Pollutant Release Inventory, the NPRI.Digging up metals generates enormous piles of rock, which contain trace amounts of potentially harmful substances. As an example, one gold...