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...
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.
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...
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...
Carlos Zorrilla tells the story of the police raid on his house on October 17, 2006 and the trumped-up charges against him. Please see our earlier Urgent Action alert for suggestions and addresses to write to.
When I received the very early phone call around 6:15 on the morning of the 17th of...
By Ken Luckhardt, Chairperson, PBI-Canada and Board Member, MiningWatch Canada
While the daily pages of the Globe & Mail’s “Report on Business” announce the latest bidding wars for corporate control of the international nickel industry, the Indigenous Mayan people of Guatemala are saying “no” to...
Even as two proposed nickel projects are shifting out of Canadian hands in New Caledonia – Falconbridge’s Koniambo project is now owned by Swiss Xstrata following its hostile takeover of Falconbridge, and Inco is now owned by Brazilian CVRD – the opposition to Inco’s Goro project is widening.
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