Background: On Sunday, March 17, 2013, at around 8 pm, the President of the Xinca Indigenous Parliament and three other Xinca leaders were abducted by a group of heavily armed masked men while on their way home from observing a public referendum on Tahoe Resources' Escobal mine in El Volcancito, San...

Development and Peace and MiningWatch Canada stand in solidarity with our sisters in struggle for justice and health from the communities of the Siria Valley, Honduras while they demonstrate in Tegucigalpa for International Women’s Day.

The Canadian government’s big announcement for this year’s Prospectors and Developers Association conference (PDAC) wasn’t the renewal of tax credits for “flow-through” shares – a $100 million dollar a year subsidy for exploration companies – or even a creative new way of diverting international...

Lolita Chávez says it is love of life that motivates her to risk her own as an outspoken Maya K'iche' activist against racism, mining, and hydroelectric project developments in the highlands of Guatemala. As a result of her leadership in Guatemala's Indigenous movement, she is a frequent target of...

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The Sandy Pond Alliance

The Sandy Pond Alliance to Protect Canadian Waters was founded in response to the imminent threat to Sandy Pond, a unique and pristine lake ecosystem that transnational mining giant Vale plans to use as a waste dump. If the company proceeds it will use the...

Last week I had the opportunity to visit Secwepemc territory in south-central BC. I was invited by the Neskonlith Band to speak with them about the Ruddock Creek project, a proposed lead and zinc mine in the headwaters of the Adams River. The proponent, Imperial Metals, and MiningWatch have a...

The deal that Barrick Gold is offering women who were raped and gang raped by employees of its Porgera mine in Papua New Guinea is not "fair" as a Globe and Mail editorial deemed this week. And it's not only Barrick that's delayed far too long in addressing these egregious abuses.

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The British Columbian mining regime needs more than tinkering around the edges. Substantive and comprehensive changes are needed to address existing conflicts and reduce the threat of future conflicts over access to land, to minimize the impacts of mining on BC’s lands, waters and communities, and...

MiningWatch recently had an opportunity to comment on an important document that will guide Cliffs Natural Resources in drafting  the environmental assessment of their Chromite project in the Mc Fauld's Lake or Ring of FIre area of northern Ontario.

The Red Chris Mine which illegally avoided a federal environmental assessment and which does not have the consent of the Tahltan Nation is being constructed in this area by Imperial Metals. MiningWatch won a landmark Supreme Court case over how the federal government determined the scope of the...

What will Kamloops' future look like if the proposed Ajax open pit mine goes ahead as currently proposed? Should a huge mining operation be allowed inside the city limits and so close to schools and neighborhoods? This video has been produced by local citizens deeply concerned about the proposed...

This past spring, the federal government, through its omnibus ‘budget’ bill C-38, introduced an entirely new, and spectacularly diminished, environmental assessment law for Canada. So far the government has failed to engage experts, or the public, on fixing the key regulations under the new law.

Yesterday the federal review panel examining the New Prosperity Gold Copper Mine Project issued a notice to the proponent, Taseko Mines, that the company's environmental impact statement (EIS) is deficient in fifty different ways. This determination follows a scathing review of an earlier draft in...

Taseko Mines Ltd. is currently attempting to get federal environmental assessment authorization for its highly controversial New Prosperity Gold-Copper Project. The project is a revamping of a previously rejected proposal. MiningWatch Canada reviewed comments on the company's environmental impact...

In Ontario, planning is slowly advancing for what outgoing Premier Dalton McGuinty referred to as ‘the most significant mining development in Canada in a century’ and what provincial Conservative Leader Tim Hudak referred to as Ontario’s “oil sands”.

Dubbed the “Ring of Fire” by junior...