This useful fact sheet was prepared by Alaskans for Responsible Mining in 2004.
Analysis of Platinex Inc. v. Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug First Nation case
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP Aboriginal Legal Issues e-Newsletter by Scott Kerwin, reproduced with permission.
Mining Video - "No Significant Environmental Effects"
Does mining really have "no significant environmental effects"? A short video by Alley Crawford with music by Perpetual Dream Theory and Gary Bourgeois.
Statement to Glamis Gold Shareholders from Honduras and Guatemala
This statement was read at Glamis Gold's Annual General Meeting. It was written
by community representatives from regions of Honduras and Guatemala affected
by the company's mining operations. They were in Canada on an educational speaking
tour with Rights Action.
Glamis Gold Ltd. Investors and...
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From San Félix to Rodeo: A Letter for the Resistance
When I visited the folks of Colectivo Reexistencia in San Félix (in Alto del
Carmen of the III Region of Chile), they asked me to undertake the lovely mission
of hand-carrying a letter directed to the people of the other side of the Andes,
on the Argentine side, also affected by the Barrick...
Mining's Privileged Access to Land Under Challenge Across the Country
Opposition to the “Free Entry” system of mine claim staking is being challenged across the country by Indigenous people and private property owners.
In southern British Columbia, a “landowners’ rights group” has been formed to take on staking of the mineral rights on their lands by prospectors....
Indigenous Kanaks Take On Inco in New Caledonia
On June 8th, 2006, magistrate Jean-Paul Briseul of the Administrative Court of Nouméa in New Caledonia called on his fellow magistrates to declare Goro-Nickel SA’s licence to operate the Goro mine illegal. On June 15th, the Administrative Court revoked Inco’s 2004 mining licence. The arguments...
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New Book: Community Rights and Corporate Responsibility: Canadian Mining and Oil Companies in Latin America
Edited by Liisa North, Timothy David Clark, and Viviana Patroni.
Between the Lines (Toronto). $29.95 CDN (paperback). 288 pages. ISBN 897071-10-8
Canadian mining activity in Latin America has exploded over the past decade and a half. Investors have responded to neo-liberal policies of deregulation...
Fish Are Our Gold Mine: Backgrounder on Northern Dynasty's Proposed Pebble Mine
Alaskans for Responsible Mining
The Pebble project is a proposed gold, copper, and molybdenum mine in Southwestern Alaska, 24 kilometers north of Lake Iliamna. Northern Dynasty Minerals, a Canadian company based out of Vancouver, owns the rights to the mineral deposit.
The...
The Bemidji Statement on Seventh Generation Guardianship
The Bemidji Statement on Seventh Generation Guardianship was released July 6 during the 14th Protecting Mother Earth Conference, convened by the Indigenous Environmental Network in Bemidji, Minnesota. It combines the ancient wisdom of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) -- "The first mandate.... is...
The Real Blunder of Pascua Lama
On June 21, 2006, a Chilean court returned two of Barrick Gold's Pascua Lama mining leases to prospector Rodolfo Villar, who had agreed to sell them to Barrick but had been paid only 10,000 pesos ($20 CDN). The ruling could have serious consequences since the leases are listed as Barrick's property...
Canadian Roundtables on the Extractive Industries
In October 2005, the Canadian government rejected the recommendations of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade to adopt concrete regulatory measures to end human rights and environmental abuses committed by Canadian mining companies abroad. However, the...
Issues of Concern re Aur Resources' Proposed Duck Pond Mine in Central Newfoundland - Updated
Aur Resources plans to destroy two trout and salmon-bearing lakes in central Newfoundland by using them for the disposal of environmentally toxic mine waste. Environment Canada has recommended adding these two ponds to Schedule 2 of the Metal Mining Effluent Regulations (MMER), effectively...
Campaign against Barrick Gold's Pascua Lama project
Update (July 2006): This matter is now before the courts in Chile, and no longer subject to political decisions. Please support our Chilean counterparts in their continuing struggle for democracy and environmental protection.
It's not too late! Barrick Gold's Pascua Lama project in the Andean peaks...
Comments on Regulations Amending the Metal Mining Effluent Regulations - Canada Gazette Part 1, Vol. 140, No. 14, published April 8, 2006
Comments prepared by Catherine Coumans as representative for the Canadian Environmental Network (CEN) on the Metal Mining Effluent Regulations Multistakeholder Advisory Group, together with Maggie Paquet (Citizens’ Stewardship Coalition, Port Alberni, BC), Judy Parkman (Recycling Organization...
The Proposed Pollution of Two Lakes in Central Newfoundland
The Fisheries Act is very clear that deleterious substances not be discharged into fish bearing waters or that fish habitat be destroyed. Weakening the Fisheries Act has the potential danger that economic considerations would influence political decisions to over ride scientific and environmental...