By MiningWatch interns Brigette DePape and Priyanka Vittal
“What do we want? Evidence based decision-making. When do we want it? After peer review!” chanted a line of doctors at the Death of Evidence rally, marching beside upwards of one thousands scientists, doctors, lawyers, and concerned...
The red pine forests surrounding Wolf Lake are by best accounts the largest remaining tract of old-growth red pine ANYWHERE. Despite the obvious and long appreciated ecological significance of the forest MNDM has continued to renew a mining lease in the heart of the Wolf Lake old growth.
On July 11, 2012, Excellon Resources, Inc., a Canadian mining company, threatened landowners of the Ejido "La Sierrita" (Ejido) and their adviser, Project on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ProDESC), with criminal proceedings and judicial action in response to the landowners' peaceful...
The Thompson River watershed already hosts Canada’s largest copper mine – Teck’s open pit Highland Valley mine. The New Afton mine is in construction, the Harper Creek and Ajax mine projects are in the environmental assessment process, and the Ruddock Creek Project is in advanced exploration. If all...
One of the most important messages Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (KI) has been trying to send to Ontario is the need to respect the treaty relationship of shared decision making and mutual respect.
Without a history of chromite mining in North America, and having read the Blacksmith Institute’s disturbing descriptions of the chromite industry in India, MiningWatch wanted to know more about this mineral and wanted to be able to share information with First Nations, potential workers, and the...
In Honduras, the Canadian government is spending taxpayer dollars to help set up a favourable legal framework for Canadian mining operations against the will of Honduran civil society, while remaining silent about rampant targeted attacks and threats against the press and social movements.
Efforts by the Canadian government and the mining industry to promote and support mining as a core element of international development have lately became the focus of intense and prolonged media coverage, opening the issue up to broader public scrutiny.
"Goldcorp has reaped the benefits of our communities and land while we have reaped the bitter consequences.” - Reina Gamero, teacher and member of the Siria Valley Environmental Committee in Honduras.
Two new maps are now available on our website. The first illustrates a hopeful trend among mining-affected communities to use local votes to demonstrate peaceful resistance to unwanted mining activities. The second is a disturbing window onto the threats and violence that communities and community...
The way the Quebec government has presented the Plan Nord as a non-stoppable project and Premier Charest's responses to its critics make it seem that accepting the plan will be the only way for northern communities to get the government to deal with their pressing social issues.
I spent the early part of this week in Mistissini, the largest Cree community in Eeyou Istchee, the Cree Territory of northern Quebec, particpating in a two-day licencing hearing held by the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC). The hearing was part of the CNSC’s decision process for the...
Continuation of Vancouver-based Pacific Rim Mining's lawsuit against El Salvador will be costly for all involved: the company, the state and, most of all, the Salvadoran people.
Focusing just on the new Canadian Environmental Assessment Act included in Bill C-38, the proposed budget implementation Act, we find that every one of the government’s proclamations is specious, disingenuous, or plain old horse exhaust.
The month of May may also prove to be a game-changer for the mining industry in Québec. Underreported in the mainstream media, one event should be looked at to understand why opposition to Charest’s aggressive resource extraction agenda has shifted in Québec. The Forum Plan Nord 2012 – The North...