Addresses some of the fundamental concepts and misconceptions around large-scale mining as a model of development and looks at what needs to change – and what's being done about it. Best practices are important to develop and promote, but what is desperately needed in the global context is an...
MiningWatch Canada Comments on EIS for Kemess North project
Northgate Minerals' proposed Kemess North mine in northern BC is undergoing a joint federal-provincial environmental assessment process. The company proposes to use Duncan Lake (a six-kilometre long lake known as Amazay or Caribou Lake by the four affected First Nations) as a tailings dump (...
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Barrick Gold Faces Determined Opposition at Pascua Lama and Veladero
Community groups on both side of the Argentina-Chile border are increasing their opposition to Barrick Gold’s proposed Pascua Lama project in Chile, while criticism of its Veladero project already under way on the Argentinean side of the border is also mounting. There have been protests in both...
Regulating Canadian Mining Companies Operating Internationally - October 2005 Conference
Canadian mining companies have been alleged to be at the root of forced resettlement, environmental destruction, negotiating with hostile regimes, as well as being involved in a morass of violations of human, workers’ and indigenous rights. MiningWatch Canada has documented international cases to...
Ensuring the fox has streamlined access at the henhouse: the federal Smart Regulation initiative.
On March 24, 2005, Treasury Board President Reg Alcock said, “Ottawa is making sweeping changes to the way it regulates Canadian business to help firms compete at home and abroad in the face of lagging productivity growth, rapid scientific advances and emerging global juggernauts such as...
MiningWatch welcomes Susan Murdock as Resource Development and Administrative Coordinator
MiningWatch Canada’s Directors and staff are pleased to announce that Susan Murdock has accepted the position of Resource Development and Administrative Coordinator. She takes over from Julea Boswell, whose abrupt departure brought us the good fortune of having Liz Kim help out on an interim basis...
Technical Review of the El Dorado Mine Project Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), El Salvador
Independent hydrogeologist Robert Moran did this review of the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) for Pacific Rim Mining Corp's El Dorado project for the Asociación de Desarrollo Económica y Social, Santa Marta (ADES) of Sensuntepeque, Cabañas, El Salvador.
Water Is More Precious Than Gold: The Pascua Lama Binational (Chile-Argentina) Mining Project
Presentation by César Padilla of the Chile-based Observatorio Latinoamericano de Conflictos Ambientales to a round table on "Regulating Canadian Mining Companies Operating Internationally" held by MiningWatch Canada in Ottawa on October 20, 2005.
Regulating Canadian Mining Companies Operating Internationally: background documents
On October 20, 2005, MiningWatch Canada held a round table on "Regulating Canadian Mining Companies Operating Internationally" with industry, government, and civil society representatives, including invited guests from Latin America, Africa, and Asia to examine options for regulatory and/or...
Philippine Province Files Suit Against Placer Dome – Background
Catherine Coumans, Ph.D.
Placer Dome in Marinduque
The Province of Marinduque is a small heart-shaped island near the middle of the Philippine archipelago. Most of its 200,000 citizens are fishers and farmers and many rely on what they can harvest from rivers, the sea and their land for their...
CAO Marlin Mine Assessment: Technical Responses
Hydrogeologist Robert Moran responds to the International Finance Corporation's Compliance Advisor Obmudsman Assessment of Glamis Gold's Marlin project.
Letter from Auki Tituaña, Mayor of Cotacachi County, Ecuador to the British Columbia Securities Commission
Unofficial translation
Mr. Darcy Krohman
British Columbia Securities Commission
Vancouver, Canada
Cotacachi, 19 September 2005
SUBJECT: Ascendant’s Revised Prospectus
Dear Sirs,
In the name of the Cotacachi Local Government, our most cordial and sincere greetings.
In light of the fact that...
Mining Concessions in Guatemala
A presentation of the Guatemalan Ministry of Energy and Mines explaining the mineral concession process in that country. In Spanish.
Elliot Lake Uranium Mines
By the early 1980s, the development of high-grade uranium deposits in Australia and Saskatchewan played a major role in driving down the price of uranium -- along with the collapse of the Canadian industry's illegal price-fixing cartel. The mines at Elliot Lake, Ontario, with their massive but low...
The Betrayal of Environmental Assessment
If anyone still thought that the environmental assessment process was there to ensure that development projects would not destroy the environment and local economies, it's time to wake up and smell the bulldozers' diesel exhaust.
A recent spate of astonishing decisions on a range of mining projects...
Sacrificing Another of Canada's Lakes to Mining
MiningWatch Canada is participating as one of four representatives of the Canadian Environmental Network (CEN) in a multi-stakeholder review of the Metal Mining Effluent Regulations (MMERs) hosted by Environment Canada (EC). The MMERs came into force on December 6, 2002. Most of the proposed...