Mr. Kent Lupberger
Manager, Mining Investments
International Finance Corporation (IFC)
2121 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W.
Washington DC 20483
3rd February, 2003
Re: Request for information on IFC financing of Somboon Potash mine in Udon Thani province, Thailand
Dear Mr. Lupberger,
It has...
Ms. Joan Kuyek
National Co-ordinator
MiningWatch Canada
City Centre
508-880 Wellington St.
Ottawa ON K1R 6K7
Dear Ms Kuyek:
Thank you for your letter regarding the report prepared by MiningWatch Canada and the Pembina Institute for Appropriate Development and the copies of the summary report.
I...
On December 30, 2002, a Canadian right-wing think tank, the Fraser Institute, released a report that rated the attractiveness of different mining jurisdictions to mining companies. The objectives of the report are clear: The Institute says: "We hope that this survey and companion index will...
A report by the NGO Working Group on the EDC (of which MiningWatch is a member) reveals that a Crown Corporation, Export Development Canada, may be helping to finance a number of projects under development by Canadian companies without the necessary environmental and social due diligence. EDC...
An article by Catherine Coumans in Seven Deadly Secrets: what EDC does not want you to know (published by the Halifax Initiative) provides an overview of the environmental and social issues associated with the Goro project.
While we understand that Bill C-2 is being presented as the implementation of a negotiated tripartite agreement, and the fulfilment of Chapter 12 of the Umbrella Final Agreement, it is our position that it should be carefully scrutinized with respect to its conformity to the UFA as well as to...
In a response to the report released on October 29th, 2002, by the World Bank's Compliance Advisor/Ombudsman on the Bulyanhulu mine, the Tanzanian Lawyers' Environmental Action Team (LEAT) states that it is deeply saddened by the report as it contains material inaccuracies, factual errors...
On October 29, MiningWatch Canada and the Pembina Institute for Appropriate Development launched our long-awaited report on public subsidies to the mining industry in Canada. The full report, summary and an abridged version in French (covering Québec) are available for download as PDF files under...
Dear Sirs:
The article Mining for Trouble: Tanzanian Gold Fields, Nov 2/02, written by Brian Hutchinson, gravely misrepresents the position of MiningWatch Canada in regard to the forced relocation of small scale miners in Tanzania in the first weeks of August 1996. we want to set the record straight...
Mining has a long history in the North beginning with Martin Frobisher's fraudulent schemes to find gold in Nunavut, through to the Klondike gold rush, the uranium used in the atomic bombs dropped on Japan, and more recently, Canada's first diamond mine.
Asia Pacific Resources Ltd. (APR) is a Canadian based company that holds 90% of a potash concession in northeastern Thailand. APR plans to mine this concession through underground mining. There has been no large-scale underground mining in Thailand to date, necessitating an amendment to Thailand's...
Prony, Inco's Troubled New Concession: In July of this year, Inco was suddenly granted a six-year exploration permit (PRA) for a massive concession called Prony, which is adjacent to Inco's current Goro site in southern New Caledonia. Inco says this new concession could provide an additional 180...
Demonstration protesting INCO: On August 30, 2002 over 3,000 people gathered in downtown Noumea in New Caledonia. 10,000 signatures were also received for the petition against the government and INCO practices. These numbers show how unified the native population and unions are against the...
(translated from the original French)
We, the Kanak people, declare belonging to this land for more than several thousand of years,
We are...
Ladies & Gentlemen, Citizens of Planet Earth,
Allow us to introduce ourselves: Kanaky-New Caledonia, is an Archipelago of the South Pacific of 19,103 km2, inhabited by a...
On October 4-6 of this year, MiningWatch will hold an Activist Workshop on Canadian Mining in Winnipeg, Manitoba. This will be a fantastic opportunity to strengthen the network of activists around mining issues in Canada. The workshop will focus on the full costs of mining, perverse subsidies given...