Maria Cuc Choc, a Mayan Q’eqchi’ community leader from El Estor in eastern Guatemala, visited Canada to speak about injustices Indigenous communities have experienced related to Canadian mining operations. She eloquently expresses outrage at the burning of Indigenous villages and the rape of a group...

The outgoing Charest government in Quebec received a lot of flack over the summer for offering a $58-million loan to an industry that was on its last breath — the mining and export of asbestos. (Recriminations came from international labour and health groups, editorials in most major Canadian papers...

Prime Minister Harper's annual trip north has again put the northern territories in a spotlight on the national agenda (at least for this week). Consistent with other rhetoric and legislative changes from the Conservatives, the tour put a heavy emphasis on resource extraction and mining as a...

The Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency has asked for suggested amendments to the key regulation under the new Canadian Environmental Assessment Act (CEAA 2012): the list of projects that will be considered for assessment. MiningWatch's position is that all commercial-scale metal and diamond...

Canadian unions, civil society groups, and solidarity networks in Canada and the US write in support of continental day of action against the imposition of large scale resource extraction projects on communities without their consent.

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.