MiningWatch Canada comments on the proposed amendments to the Metal Mining Effluent Regulations (MMER) to include Sandy Pond (NL) on Schedule 2 and expand the MMER to include hydrometalurgic facilities such as Vale Inco's Long Harbour facility. Following a flawed government-led consultation process...
Investing in Conflict - Public Money, Private Gain: Goldcorp in the Americas
A report by Rights Action: The nexus of mining companies, the mainstream media, the Canadian government, International Finance Institutions and bought off NGOs work hard to keep the reality of large-scale, open pit mines out of picture, keep community resistance marginalized, and no matter what, to...
A Matter of Conscience
An essay by Michael Patenaude on the sentencing of the Ardoch Algonquins and Paula Sherman and Bob Lovelace, and ahead of the sentencing of Shabot Obaadjiwan and settler (non-Native) protesters: "Sometimes in life one must look back in history for inspiration. This is especially true when current...
MPP Randy Hillier and MP Scott Reid Letter of Support for Ardoch Algonquins and Bob Lovelace
Randy Hillier, Member of Provincial Parliament for Lanark-Frontenac-Lennox and Addington and Scott Reid, Member of Parliament for the same region, wrote a strong letter of support for the Ardoch Algonquins and Bob Lovelace in particular.
Xstrata Faces Growing Criticism Over Koniambo Nickel Project in Kanaky-New Caledonia
Xstrata’s Koniambo project in the South Pacific French territory of Kanaky-New Caledonia, formerly owned by Falconbridge, is coming under increasing scrutiny and criticism. The proposed nickel mine, in the northern province of Kanaky-New Caledonia, will be one of the largest mines in the world when...
Uranium Still a Hot Topic Across Canada
In December, 2007, MiningWatch Canada issued its long-awaited Policy Statement on Uranium Mining.
Requests for help in addressing uranium issues from all across Canada meant that we had to figure out exactly where we stood on uranium mining and exploration.
Our situation was not unique. The...
Conversations with the Earth: A Community Arts Project in Sudbury
Over the past year, the Canary Institute and MiningWatch Canada have been honoured to work with Myths and Mirrors Community Arts in Sudbury on a project for youth called “Conversations with the Earth”.
Myths and Mirrors hosted the Ontario Mining Action Network meeting in November 2007 and...
End Mining’s Privileged Access to Land! Communities Across Canada Outraged by Free Entry System
Across Canada, communities and Aboriginal governments are saying they have had enough when it comes to the privileged access mining has to land under the existing system, which grants “free entry” to prospectors and mining companies under the assumption the mining is the “highest and best” use of...
MiningWatch Canada Policy Statement on Uranium Mining
Uranium mining is a highly contentious issue across Canada and globally. Uranium mining, from exploration through to mining, processing, and eventual decommissioning, is risky and dangerous to the environment, wildlife, local peoples and communities, and workers.
Uranium is used for three...
Urgent Appeal to United Nations Special Rapporteurs Regarding Human Rights Abuses at Porgera Mine
On December 2, 2007, MiningWatch Canada sent an Urgent Appeal to the Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary, or Arbitrary Executions regarding allegations of extrajudicial killings by private security guards (tolerated by the government), Papua New Guinea Police and Mobile Unit Police at the...
Breaching Indigenous Law: Canadian Mining in Guatemala
By: Shin Imai, Ladan Mehranvar, and Jennifer Sander; reproduced from the Indigenous Law Journal, Volume 6, Issue 1, 2007 with permission from the authors. This is a case study of a small Indigenous community in Guatemala that defied a powerful Canadian mining company by holding a community vote on...
Summary Review of Skye Resources’ Technical Report on an Update to the Fenix Project, Izabal, Guatemala
This summary review by Dawn Paley is based on Skye Resources Inc.’s Technical Report on an Update to the Fenix Project, Izabal Guatemala of September 15, 2007, posted online at www.sedar.com.
Goldcorp Analysis
A report on the activities of Goldcorp around the world: “Given the rapid pace of mergers and acquisitions that Goldcorp has made over the last few years, it is too early to see how the new expanded company will behave in the real world, and what kind of social and environmental responsibility it...
Concerned Citizens of Michipicoten Bay
The Concerned Citizens of Michipicoten Bay in Ontario have been trying to stop a major gravel quarry from being built on private land on the Heritage Coast of Lake Superior. For more information, visit their website at www.ccmb.ca, or contact Mark Z. Leschishin, President , e-mail: mleschishin(at...
Guatemala: Recuperating the Land that Belongs to Us
by Sandra Cuffe, Rights Action
(El Estor, Guatemala) "Why are we gathered here tonight?," asked community elder Roberto Caal, looking around at the dozens of women, men and children gathering under the palm-thatched roof of the open-air community hall in Barrio Revolucion, in the municipality of El...