(Jan. 5, 2007) Industry Associations (the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada, the Mining Association of Canada, and the Canadian Aboriginal Minerals Association) and Natural Resources Canada have developed and published an “Aboriginal Mining Toolkit” which they have been heavily...

Mineral Policy Institute Case Study: Consolidated Rutile Ltd. (CRL)

CRL’s two big operations are on opposite sides of the world but both are highly controversial.

In Sierra Leone in West Africa, CRL owns half of the world’s biggest rutile mine. The mine has been closed since 1995 and the company...

Presentation to the Seventh Annual Global Conference on Environmental Taxation, Ottawa, October 23, 3006 (revised November 10, 2006) by Dr. Joan Kuyek, National Co-ordinator, MiningWatch Canada

There are no clean diamonds. Exploring for them, digging them out of the ground and selling them requires sacrifices from the natural environment, from the wildlife and fish that live on it, and from the Aboriginal people who depend on it.

We want to ensure that the public understand that...

The situation in Morona Santiago and Zamora Chinchipe, in the south of Ecuador, has grown very serious.

On November 12, a Presidential Order was issued to immediately suspend all mining activity in the area, after massive popular demonstrations against multinational mining companies in the...

Industry Associations (the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada, the Mining Association of Canada, and the Canadian Aboriginal Minerals Association) and Natural Resources Canada have developed and published an “Mining Information Kit for Aboriginal Communities” which they have been...

(Window Rock, Navajo Nation, USA) We, the Peoples gathered at the Indigenous World Uranium Summit, at this critical time of intensifying nuclear threats to Mother Earth and all life, demand a worldwide ban on uranium mining, processing, enrichment, fuel use, and weapons testing and deployment, and...

II Social Forum Chile - Santiago de Chile, November 25, 2006

After hearing the arguments of the prosecution and the defence as well as the testimonies of civil society and traditional communities of Argentina, Chile and Perú, the judges have handed down a verdict and judicial sentence.

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(Edited by Lorraine Rekmans, Keith Lewis and Anabel Dwyer; published by the Serpent River First Nation, Cutler, Ontario, 2003. 123 pp. Reviewed by Jamie Kneen.) It was not the Anishinabe people of the Serpent River, who decided to mine the massive uranium deposits that lie under the river...

MiningWatch Canada presented our findings to the Kemess North Mine Environmental Assessment Joint Review Panel on November 22, 2006, concluding that the Panel "has no choice but to find that the Kemess North Mine project poses serious environmental effects which cannot be mitigated and that are not...

Summary:

In the municipal jurisdiction of El Estor in northeastern Guatemala, Maya Q'eqchi' communities represent more than 90% of the population. They are scattered over an area of nearly 3,000 km² in more than 100 villages as well as the town of El Estor, totaling over 35,000 persons.

The...

Short video (3'11") of the July 13, 2006 demonstration by Intag residents in the courtyard of the Ministry of Energy and Mines in Quito, showing the non-violent expulsion of two women who were distributing pro-mining flyers. The blonde is Leslie Brooke Chaplin, who has accused Carlos Zorrilla of...

A Master's program research paper by Shauna Qureshy.

Many exploration companies seek either formal, negotiated agreements or non-negotiated acquiescence from First Nation communities before they begin their exploration programs, and some proceed without acquiescence or agreement.

In 2005-6...

On October 21, 2006, a delegation from the Ecuadorian environmental umbrella group Coordination of Organizations for the Defence of Nature and the Environment (CEDENMA, Coordinadora Ecuatoriana de organizaciones para la Defensa de la Naturaleza y el Medio Ambiente) visited the house of Carlos...

Abogado Antonio Andretta Arizaga Minister of Government and Police Calle Benalcazar y Espejo Quito Ecuador Dear Sir: Please accept cordial greetings from Canada on behalf of an organization that has worked for many years for Ecuador’s right to choose its own ecologically sustainable...

27 October, 2006 Gary E. Davis President and CEO Ascendant Copper Corporation 10920 West Alameda Avenue, Suite 201 Lakewood, CO 80226 USA Fax: (303) 297-0538 Dear Mr. Davis: I am writing to you regarding the latest developments around your Junín project in the Intag area of north...