Impact and Benefit Agreements (IBAs) seek to address the impacts a mine will have on a community and the environment and set the ground rules for a relationship between the community and a mining company.
Law or policy does not require iBAs, but many companies may seek to negotiate IBAs...
It is estimated that 60% of all mining activity in Canada takes place on Aboriginal lands. In many cases Aboriginal people have been hit the hardest by the social and environmental impacts of mining activities, from exploration through mine development and operation and to closure and abandonment...
The Victor Diamond Project is located in Northern Ontario, approximately 90 km west of the coastal community of Attawapiskat. This project involves Attawapiskat First Nation, and three other remote communities on the shores of James Bay: Moose Cree, Fort Albany, and Kashechewan First Nations. It...
In Ontario, a regulation made under Bill 26 (the Savings and Restructuring Act introduced in January 1996) enabled profound changes to the Public Lands Act.
MiningWatch Canada has responded to the threat of a libel and defamation suit from Grant Stapon on behalf of TVI with a letter from our lawyer, Brian MacLeod Rogers: MiningWatch Canada re TVI Pacific Inc.
This presentation by Catherine Coumans, Ph.D discusses:
A case study by independent researcher Peter McCaslin.
"In the case of Tambogrande, for the first time there was a very clear and direct confrontation between agricultural and mining development." Case study by CooperAcción.
(Taken from “Exile of the Cóndor: Transnational Hegemony on the Border: the Mining Treaty Between Chile and Argentina” – Moon, Padilla and Alcayata, Santiago, 2004)
Pascua Lama is a mining project consisting of the open-pit exploitation of a deposit of gold, silver and copper ore and its processing...
The prestigious international law firm Heller Ehrman, acting on behalf of DECOIN, notified Chris Werner of Ascendant Holdings of improper activities in conjunction with the Junín mining project. The letter requests “Ascendant’s assistance in ensuring that the process of determining the future path...
[The following text is excerpted from the proceedings of the Subcommittee on Human Rights and International Development of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade. March 23, 2005. The entire transcript may be found at: http://www.parl.gc.ca/committee...
MiningWatch Canada received a letter from Grant Stapon at Bennett Jones, a law firm representing TVI Pacific. The letter threatens possible litigation against MiningWatch Canada, the board of directors, and Catherine Coumans.
MadreSelva, a Guatemalan environmental group, commissioned independent hydrogeologist Robert Moran to review Glamis Gold's Marlin project Environmental Impact Assessment. His report shows shocking inadequacies in the EIA as well as a refusal by the company to provide any further information or...