MiningWatch in the News Ontario's push to fast-track Ring of Fire mining may actually delay the development it seeks to speed up 28.04.2025
MiningWatch in the News Poilievre says feds are holding up oil, gas and mining projects. Is he right, and could he change that? 23.04.2025
News Release MiningWatch Supports Xatśūll First Nation’s Mount Polley Tailings Dam Challenge 15.04.2025
Friends of MiningWatch Xatśūll First Nation files Judicial Review against B.C. for approving the Mount Polley Mine expansion 15.04.2025
MiningWatch in the News B.C. loses fight to deny Seabridge Gold millions of dollars in tax credits 08.04.2025
MiningWatch in the News B.C. company to seek U.S. approval for deep sea mining — 'a violation of international law,' says United Nations 01.04.2025
Friends of MiningWatch Financial Desperation Is Driving TMC’s Reckless Push To Bypass International Law 28.03.2025
Friends of MiningWatch Declaration of “Panama is worth more without mining” regarding the attempt to reopen the Cobre Panama mine 21.03.2025
Friends of MiningWatch Important victory for citizens: CPTAQ denies Canada Carbon project for a graphite mine 20.03.2025
Friends of MiningWatch Abject failure: Canada’s would-be human rights watchdog leaves Bangladeshi garment workers languishing in poverty 14.03.2025
News Release Colombia's Declaration of Temporary Reserve Area in Santurbán Páramo a Victory for Defence of Water 11.03.2025
MiningWatch in the News The Rights of Nature Become a Rallying Point Against an Ascendant Mining Industry 06.03.2025
MiningWatch in the News Outraged by Toronto mining convention, demonstrators disrupt opening day proceedings 03.03.2025
MiningWatch in the News Despite Regional Opposition, a Canadian Company Pursues Mining in Santander 19.02.2025
Friends of MiningWatch Ejido de Carrizalillo Announces it Will Halt Operations at Equinox's Los Filos Mine in Mexico 19.02.2025
MiningWatch in the News Good for mining but bad for democracy? Why Indigenous groups in Ecuador oppose free trade deal with Canada 11.02.2025
News Release Canada-Ecuador Free Trade Agreement Threatens to Worsen Human Rights Abuses Facing Indigenous Nations and Communities 07.02.2025
Friends of MiningWatch Amazonian Women Respond to Announcement of a Free Trade Agreement Between Ecuador and Canada 06.02.2025
MiningWatch in the News Mining industry hails B.C. plan to expedite projects amid Trump tariff threat 05.02.2025
Friends of MiningWatch Ecuador's Free Trade Agreement with Canada is a Threat to Sovereignty and Indigenous Territories 05.02.2025
Friends of MiningWatch Five prominent water defenders in El Salvador refuse to attend court hearing denouncing lack of judicial independence that poses a threat to their lives 04.02.2025
MiningWatch in the News Sidelined in Mali, Barrick turns Tanzania mine into ‘armed encampment’ 13.01.2025
Friends of MiningWatch Experts say First Quantum’s Cobre Panama tailings dam is at very serious and imminent risk of failure due to internal erosion and a lack of proper monitoring 12.12.2024
News Release 100+ Organizations Voice Deep Concern Over Violence to Advance Canada’s Atico Mining Project in Ecuador 12.12.2024
MiningWatch in the News 'Are they going to walk away?': Charges 10 years after B.C.'s Mount Polley disaster 11.12.2024
MiningWatch in the News Contrary to industry claims, red tape not slowing B.C. mineral boom, finds audit 11.12.2024
MiningWatch in the News 10 years after B.C.’s worst mining waste disaster, company faces charges 10.12.2024
MiningWatch in the News Mining company charged 10 years after spilling toxic waste into B.C. waters 10.12.2024
MiningWatch in the News On sidelines of UN nature summit in Colombia, Canadian mining companies pillage 06.12.2024
Friends of MiningWatch Quebec drags First Nation back to Court over landmark mining decision 04.12.2024
Friends of MiningWatch International Allies Against Mining in El Salvador condemns decision to retry ADES Santa Marta Five Water Defenders and Bukele’s attempts to overturn mining ban 03.12.2024
Friends of MiningWatch Statement from the Xinka Parliament of Guatemala Condemning Interference in Court-Ordered Consultation on Escobal Mine by San Rafael las Flores Municipality and Pan American Silver 20.11.2024
News Release Santa Marta Community and International Allies Call on Appeals Court to Reaffirm the Innocence of the Five Salvadoran Water Defenders 01.11.2024
Friends of MiningWatch No Consent = No project: LPFN Asserts Anicinabe Rights and Titles During BAPE Hearings on Falco's Horne 5 Mining Project 31.10.2024
Friends of MiningWatch Manifesto for Water and Life by the Committee for the Defence of Water and the Santurbán Paramo 23.10.2024
News Release 121 International Organizations Call on Canada to Withdraw All Support for First Quantum Minerals One Year After Historic Anti-Mining Protests in Panama 23.10.2024
News Release International Allies Applaud the Acquittal of the Five Unjustly Jailed Water Defenders in El Salvador 18.10.2024
MiningWatch in the News Barrick fights to dismiss Tanzanian abuse allegations from Canadian court 16.10.2024
News Release Barrick in Toronto Court over Allegations of Acts of Extreme Violence at North Mara Mine in Tanzania 15.10.2024
MiningWatch in the News Indigenous women from Ecuador bring concerns on mining abuses, free trade to Parliament Hill 03.10.2024
News Release Why We Say No: Ecuadorian Indigenous women and rights defenders bring message of concern to Canada amid high-stakes trade negotiations 26.09.2024
Friends of MiningWatch “Free the Santa Marta Five” International Speaking Tour Will Feature Events in Canada, USA, and Germany, Sept. 23 – Oct. 7 23.09.2024
MiningWatch in the News Quebec won’t fund graphite mine project tied to Pentagon; locals claim ‘victory’ 19.09.2024
News Release Communities in the Dominican Republic Call on Government for Immediate Relocation away from Gold Mine 11.09.2024
MiningWatch in the News B.C. is home to ‘high-risk’ toxic mine waste sites. Here are 5 you need to know about 13.08.2024
MiningWatch in the News A decade after disastrous breach, Mount Polley mine tailings dam could get even bigger 31.07.2024
Friends of MiningWatch Public Statement: Human Rights Organizations in Ecuador Denounce Police Takeover of Indigenous Headquarters 23.07.2024
MiningWatch in the News Sale of B.C. coal mines to Glencore was bad deal for Canada: report 22.07.2024
News Release New Report Sounds Alarm Over Sale of Teck Resources’ B.C. Coal Mines to Glencore 22.07.2024
News Release Organizations Ask Canadian Embassy to Uphold Human Rights Commitments in Panama 17.07.2024
MiningWatch in the News Quebec town leaders, residents unite to decide fate of mine with ties to Pentagon 13.07.2024
Friends of MiningWatch Victoria Gold Eagle Mine Landslide: YCS Urges Rigorous Monitoring and Accountability 05.07.2024
Friends of MiningWatch White River First Nation Statement on Victoria Gold Mine Situation – Calls for Public Inquiry 27.06.2024
News Release Ecuadorian Indigenous Organizations Deny Agreement with Solaris Resources Ahead of AGM 21.06.2024
MiningWatch in the News Canada’s Updated Critical Minerals List ‘Effectively Meaningless’, Critics Warn 17.06.2024
MiningWatch in the News Yukon government considers subsidies for mining companies to reduce emissions 04.06.2024
News Release Energy transition or more militarism? US defence subsidies for a graphite mine near Montreal provokes anger in civil society 03.06.2024
MiningWatch in the News As miner quells protests in Ecuador, Canadian firms’ rights record faces scrutiny 15.05.2024
Friends of MiningWatch Mayan Q'eqchi' Ancestral Council and human rights defenders speak out about possible reactivation of Fénix mine in Guatemala 14.05.2024
News Release Report Reveals Serious Human Rights Violations as First Quantum Enters Annual Shareholder Meeting 09.05.2024
Friends of MiningWatch Communiqué from the Panama is Worth More without Mining Movement following the May 5, 2024 election results 08.05.2024
MiningWatch in the News Ottawa’s revised environmental rules won’t reduce permitting stage, lawyers say 06.05.2024
MiningWatch in the News Ottawa Cedes Authority Over GHG Emissions in Impact Assessment Act Amendments 02.05.2024
MiningWatch in the News Barrick accused of using virtual AGM format to misrepresent or ignore shareholder concerns 30.04.2024
News Release Human Rights Organizations Sound Alarm as Canada-Ecuador Trade Talks Get Underway 30.04.2024
MiningWatch in the News Government proposes new regulation granting natural resources minister new powers over conservation authorities' permits 12.04.2024
MiningWatch in the News Salvadoran Court Decried for Letting Case Against 'Santa Marta 5' Continue 10.04.2024
Friends of MiningWatch International Community Condemns April 10 Ruling in El Salvador’s Court on the Santa Marta Five Water Defenders 10.04.2024
MiningWatch in the News In Ecuador, government sees mining as the future. But communities are divided 07.04.2024
MiningWatch in the News Indigenous Ecuadorians warn against Canada-Ecuador free trade pact 06.04.2024
Friends of MiningWatch Canada is Assessed at the UN, Receiving Recommendations to Curb Abuse by its Companies and Financial Institutions 25.03.2024
Friends of MiningWatch Nine Prominent International Organizations Call on Salvadoran Attorney General to Drop All Charges against Five Water Defenders 25.03.2024
Friends of MiningWatch Indigenous and Campesino Organizations in Ecuador Denounce Criminalization in Mining-Affected Area 19.03.2024
Friends of MiningWatch Transnational mining company Red Eagle’s loss in Santurbán could mean a victory if Colombia pulls out of the Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) system 13.03.2024
Friends of MiningWatch Why the Ecuador trade deal Canada wants hinges on a misleading referendum question 13.03.2024
MiningWatch in the News Indigenous organization levels complaint against Canadian mining company 05.03.2024
Friends of MiningWatch Shuar Arutam People Speak Out Against Solaris Resources' Cooperation Agreement 04.03.2024
Friends of MiningWatch Letter to Canadian Ambassador to Ecuador: Ecuadorian Organizations Denounce Efforts to Promote More Canadian Mining Investment at PDAC 04.03.2024
News Release President of Ecuador in Toronto to Attract Mining Investment Amid Human Rights Concerns 01.03.2024
MiningWatch in the News All emissions from Faro mine cleanup must be offset, review board says 29.02.2024
News Release Complaint by Ecuadorian Indigenous Nation Asks British Columbia Securities Commission to Investigate Solaris Resources 29.02.2024
News Release Putting an End to Free Mining | 100 signatures on letter in support of Mitchikanibikok Inik First Nation's legal action 19.02.2024
News Release Over 100 International Organizations Denounce Belo Sun’s Efforts to Criminalize Brazilian Land Defenders 16.02.2024
MiningWatch in the News Human-rights groups decry rising trend of corporate SLAPP lawsuits 13.02.2024
Friends of MiningWatch Ecuador's Constitutional Court Upholds Suspension of Mining in Kimsakocha 09.02.2024
MiningWatch in the News Plane crash a reminder ‘getting to work is dangerous’ for many miners 01.02.2024
Friends of MiningWatch Peru: Plan Unidos and the Boluarte Administration’s Insistence on Expanding Mining 20.01.2024
Friends of MiningWatch New Report from Leading Research and Civil Society Organizations Reveals New Information on the Arrests of Water Defenders and the State of Human Rights in El Salvador under the Bukele Administration 11.01.2024
MiningWatch in the News As Canada vies for UN Human Rights Council seat, some Indigenous leaders from the Amazon raise red flags 30.12.2023
MiningWatch in the News From Ontario to Panama, Indigenous communities are rising up to resist Canada’s mining industry 20.12.2023
News Release Forced Evictions at Barrick’s North Mara Gold Mine: Report details gross violations of human rights in Tanzania 12.12.2023
News Release Indigenous Organization Opposes Sale of Controversial Warintza Mining Project in Ecuadorian Amazon 30.11.2023
MiningWatch in the News Mining claim 'boom' pits prospectors against public in suburban Gatineau 28.11.2023
News Release BC Lags on Key Commitment as Environmental Assessment Act Turns Five Years Old 27.11.2023
Friends of MiningWatch The Shuar Arutam People Reiterate Opposition to the Warintza Project After Announced Advanced Exploration 23.11.2023
Friends of MiningWatch While The Metals Company construct their own reality, commercial deep sea mining is a long way off 15.11.2023
News Release Communities Demand Accountability for Mining Injustices in the Dominican Republic 15.11.2023
News Release Media Advisory: Community Protest Against Mine Expansion in the Dominican Republic 10.11.2023
Friends of MiningWatch Long Point First Nation Hosts a Day to Affirm its Sovereignty over its Traditional Territory - KAKINWAWIGAK NIDAKINAN 17.10.2023
Friends of MiningWatch Wells residents already experiencing negative impacts just days after mine approval 17.10.2023
MiningWatch in the News Former B.C. mining exec fined $30K for environmental violations — but First Nation says damage costs far more 13.10.2023
Friends of MiningWatch Tiny Town Fights to Change Mine Plan to Preserve Tourism, Culture and Natural Beauty 03.10.2023
News Release Environment and community groups applaud BC Supreme Court ruling to reform province’s mineral staking regime 28.09.2023
News Release Baru Gold faces Legal Defeat, Permit Revocation, and Rejection by the Youth of Sangihe Island in Indonesia 22.09.2023
News Release Proposed tailings dam expansion would become world’s second largest yet doesn’t automatically require environmental assessment 14.09.2023
Friends of MiningWatch Illegal Mining Claims Discovered Inside Protected Area of Nopiming Provincial Park, Manitoba 12.09.2023
MiningWatch in the News Many Manitoba parks are open to mining. Now an industry group wants to ‘suspend all protected areas’ 09.09.2023
MiningWatch in the News Mining companies are abusing a little-known loophole to avoid cleanup 08.09.2023
News Release Barrick’s Major Mine Expansion in the Dominican Republic Brings Extreme and Unreported Risks, says Safety Expert 06.09.2023
Friends of MiningWatch Amazon Watch Launches Report "Unmasking Canada: Rights Violations Across Latin America" 01.09.2023
News Release International Mission Urges Colombia to Withdraw from 'ISDS' System of Corporate Abuse and Impunity 15.08.2023
MiningWatch in the News B.C. miners push province to aggressively support critical mineral exploration 13.08.2023
News Release Manitoba’s Misguided “Critical Minerals Strategy” Sparks Open Letter, Demand for Answers 09.08.2023
News Release Argentine communities present 71,000 signatures to Buenos Aires court, demanding an investigation into Barrick Gold’s mining disaster 31.07.2023
MiningWatch in the News Ontario minister was privately urged to fix ‘high-risk gap’ to avoid mining disaster 24.07.2023
MiningWatch in the News The oceans are rich in critical minerals. But will miners be allowed to get them? 14.07.2023
Friends of MiningWatch Statement by ENTRE on Expert Visit to Review Barrick's Plans for Expansion in the Dominican Republic 10.07.2023
News Release Canada Declares it will not Support Proposals to Mine the Deep Seabed until Robust Regulations are in Place 10.07.2023
News Release As Solaris Shareholders Meet, Indigenous Communities in the Ecuadorian Amazon Reaffirm their Opposition to the Warintza Mine 23.06.2023
MiningWatch in the News Community slams company for the poisoning of their river multiple times: ‘Spilled toxic chemicals into the water’ 20.06.2023
News Release MNRF’s 2023-2027 Strategic Plan Fails to Address Environmental Issues and Public Demands 15.06.2023
Friends of MiningWatch Petition Filed Against Canada at Inter-American Commission on Human Rights 08.06.2023
MiningWatch in the News Supporters of slain mining activist take case against Canada to international body 07.06.2023
News Release Did Canada Fail to Protect a Human Rights Defender Assassinated for His Opposition to a Canadian Mine in Mexico? 05.06.2023
News Release Communities Demand Transparency in the Approval of Barrick Gold's Dominican Republic Mine Expansion 05.06.2023
News Release Despite Clear Environmental Risks, B.C. Refuses to Require Improved Water Monitoring at Closed Ajax Mine 31.05.2023
News Release The Dirty Dozen: 12 cases that undermine B.C.’s claim to be a world-class mining jurisdiction 25.05.2023
Friends of MiningWatch International Mission to Colombia to Share Ways to Stop Abusive Corporate Claims 23.05.2023
Friends of MiningWatch Neskantaga Chief Christopher Moonias Issues Response to Premier Doug Ford's Statement that He Will Move Forward with Mining the Ring of Fire Despite Indigenous Opposition 16.05.2023
MiningWatch in the News Campaigners push corporations to divest in deep sea mining, as major shipping company Maersk pulls investment 15.05.2023
News Release Conflict, Environmental Harm and Human Rights Abuse Allegations – What Barrick Shareholders Need to Know 02.05.2023
MiningWatch in the News Gold miner faces global protests as it rekindles a mine with a violent legacy 01.05.2023
News Release Arbitrary Arrests of Water Defenders in El Salvador Puts at Risk Peace Accord 25.04.2023
MiningWatch in the News Indigenous leaders, conservation charity not huge fans of Mining Act changes 17.04.2023
MiningWatch in the News Surging Demand for Critical Minerals Drives Fears of Unjust Transition 11.04.2023
News Release Intervenors join Gitxaała in court to argue against BC’s mineral claim regime 11.04.2023
News Release Rhetoric vs Record: Communities Call out Barrick for Falling Short on Human Rights 11.04.2023
News Release Canadian Diplomats Prioritize Mining at the Expense of Human Rights, Legal Experts Tell the UN 05.04.2023
MiningWatch in the News BREAKING: Federal Budget Pours Tens of Billions Into Clean Economy 28.03.2023
Friends of MiningWatch Greenpeace confronts deep sea mining expedition in the Pacific Ocean 26.03.2023
News Release Public Interest Groups at Supreme Court of Canada to Defend Federal Environmental Law from Alberta Challenge 21.03.2023
Friends of MiningWatch Over 220 organizations call on Colombian government of Gustavo Petro and Francia Márquez to withdraw from international investment treaties that enable million-dollar corporate claims 07.03.2023
MiningWatch in the News Lawyer says First Nations will fight Ontario government's proposed mining changes 07.03.2023
MiningWatch in the News UN ‘High Seas Treaty’ good news for oceans, but finer details not yet clear 06.03.2023
MiningWatch in the News Ontario's bid to shorten time needed to build mines about making regulation more 'effective': George Pirie 06.03.2023
News Release Activists Disrupt the Flow of the World’s Largest Mining Convention to Say ‘Water is Life!’ 06.03.2023
MiningWatch in the News Updates to the Mining Act look to boost mining activity in the north 05.03.2023
MiningWatch in the News Global mining giants are flocking to Manitoba. Here’s what that means for the province 03.03.2023
News Release Proposed Canada-Ecuador Free Trade Agreement Poses Unacceptable Risk, NGOs Warn 03.03.2023
Friends of MiningWatch Ecuador-Canada Free Trade Agreement: a new attack on communities, Indigenous peoples, and the environment 01.03.2023
News Release 77 Global and National Human Rights and Environmental Groups in Six Countries Expose OceanaGold as an Irresponsible Mining Company and Oppose its Expansion 01.03.2023
News Release Bloom Lake: Federal Government Urged To Not Rush Any Decision and Demand an Alternative to Save Lakes from Becoming Mine Waste Dumps 21.02.2023
Friends of MiningWatch Canadian companies linked to allegations of human rights abuse abroad including killings, torture and forced labour – new reports, testimony 14.02.2023
News Release Canada Misses Opportunity to Join Global Leaders in Calling for a Moratorium on Deep Seabed Mining 09.02.2023
MiningWatch in the News ‘Imminent threat’: plans to mine the bottom of the ocean raise concerns as Canada announces moratorium 09.02.2023
MiningWatch in the News 2 workers dead after incident at Vancouver company's gold mine in Ghana 07.02.2023
MiningWatch in the News Scientists alarmed by video of deep sea mining company spewing waste into the ocean 06.02.2023
MiningWatch in the News Leaked video footage of ocean pollution shines light on deep-sea mining 06.02.2023
News Release Demonstrators Call on Canada to Commit to Real Ocean Protection and Put the Brakes on Deep-Sea Mining 04.02.2023
MiningWatch in the News Canada under pressure to ban deep-sea mining as global ocean summit starts in Vancouver 03.02.2023
News Release ADVISORY: Public Demonstration Calling for a Global Moratorium on Deep-Sea Mining 02.02.2023
MiningWatch in the News Trudeau government’s support for Peruvian coup regime all about Canadian mining companies 01.02.2023
News Release End of the Road for Justice in Canada: Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Appeal by Family of Murdered Mexican Environment Defender 23.01.2023
News Release Mining claims: Elected officials in Abitibi join the national movement to change the law 23.01.2023
MiningWatch in the News Undercover videos expose deep-sea mining companies’ ‘blatant disregard’ for environment 20.01.2023
MiningWatch in the News International deep seabed mining kicks off under “secrecy agreement” 17.01.2023
MiningWatch in the News 'Smoke and mirrors': Northern miners call for more support for critical minerals 17.01.2023
MiningWatch in the News Despite Indigenous resistance, Mexico authorizes mining concessions in protected areas 16.01.2023
Friends of MiningWatch Institute for Policy Studies calls on Salvadoran government to release from prison leading Water Defenders arrested on January 11 13.01.2023
Friends of MiningWatch Situation at the Caribou Mine requires immediate response from Premier Higgs, and legislative hearings into contaminated site management in New Brunswick 12.01.2023
MiningWatch in the News Watch: Footage alleges Vancouver company leaked mining waste into sea 10.01.2023
News Release Undercover Video and Scientist Testimonies Show Deep Sea Mining Tests Tainted by Pollution and Flawed Monitoring 10.01.2023
MiningWatch in the News Canadian company ‘misleading’ its investors in bid to build Brazil’s biggest open-pit gold mine in the Amazon, activists say 04.01.2023
MiningWatch in the News Canadian officials ignored their obligation to support activist detained in 2017 over mining dispute in Peru: report 27.12.2022
MiningWatch in the News B.C. law reform group applies to be intervener in First Nation’s petition against mining claims 16.12.2022
News Release Environmental Organizations Apply to Intervene in Gitxaała Nation’s Legal Case Against Unwanted Mining 15.12.2022
MiningWatch in the News Indigenous nations in the Amazon urge Canada to strengthen mining rules 15.12.2022
MiningWatch in the News Advocates at biodiversity conference push back against plan to expedite approvals for critical minerals mines 14.12.2022
MiningWatch in the News Trudeau hosts biodiversity summit while promising more support for mining industry 13.12.2022
MiningWatch in the News Faster Push for Critical Minerals Threatens Environment, Indigenous Rights 12.12.2022
MiningWatch in the News Canada Program Co-Lead Jamie Kneen on CBC's The National and the World at Six 12.12.2022
News Release Report Finds that Canada's Policies on Human Rights and Environment Defenders are Effectively Meaningless 11.12.2022
MiningWatch in the News Ottawa's Critical Minerals Strategy: Mixed Reactions on the North Shore 09.12.2022
MiningWatch in the News Canada seeks to shore up critical minerals supply chain as geopolitical tensions rise 09.12.2022
MiningWatch in the News Ottawa's critical mineral strategy calls for faster project approvals 09.12.2022
MiningWatch in the News Canada's top five federal contaminated sites to cost taxpayers billions to clean up 27.11.2022
MiningWatch in the News 'Barrick is responsible for the violence': New lawsuit filed in Ontario about troubled Tanzania mine 23.11.2022
MiningWatch in the News Barrick Gold faces Ontario lawsuit for alleged killings and abuses at Tanzanian mine 23.11.2022
News Release Barrick Slapped with Third Lawsuit on Same Human Rights Abuses at Tanzanian Mine: ‘Business as Usual’? 23.11.2022
MiningWatch in the News Barrick Gold under fire by UN for toxic spills from Veladero mine in Argentina 17.11.2022
MiningWatch in the News A new mine could position Quebec as a lithium leader, but its rocky past worries locals 15.11.2022
MiningWatch in the News B.C. company watching closely as opposition grows to deep-sea mining 10.11.2022
Friends of MiningWatch COP27: Local communities must not pay the price as the world scrambles to extract transition minerals 01.11.2022
MiningWatch in the News Climate changed: Mining industry digs into alternative methods as risks rise 20.10.2022
MiningWatch in the News Freeland Decries ‘Curse of Oil’, Urges Tighter Economic Ties Among Allies 13.10.2022
MiningWatch in the News Lab-grown diamonds offer lower-cost, environmentally sustainable sparkle 13.10.2022
Friends of MiningWatch COP27: Over 200 organisations call on UNFCCC Secretariat & State parties to put human rights at the centre of climate action 12.10.2022
News Release Barrick in Charge: Ongoing Killings of Local Kuria by Mine Police and Forced Evictions at the North Mara Gold Mine 11.10.2022
Friends of MiningWatch Mining Accountability Conference Asserts “We Can’t Mine our Way out of Climate Change” 07.10.2022
MiningWatch in the News Independent Study Confirming Serious Risks with Loma Larga: Coverage in the Financial Post 07.10.2022
MiningWatch in the News Why doesn’t B.C. have mining regulations that Brazil, Ecuador and China already have? 05.10.2022
News Release A Ticking Time Bomb: Independent Review Reveals Serious Risks at Proposed Loma Larga Mine 29.09.2022
Friends of MiningWatch New Modelling Predicts Deep Sea Mining by Tonga and The Metals Company to Pollute Hawaii and Kiribati Waters 28.09.2022
News Release OECD Faults Canada Over Handling of Complaint Related to Malaysian Political Family’s Real Estate Group 26.09.2022
Friends of MiningWatch Mining claims: Movement expands to 9 RCMs representing 142 municipalities 19.09.2022
MiningWatch in the News Canadian-owned mining company and executives found guilty of involuntary homicide after Burkina Faso flood disaster 15.09.2022
News Release South Africa Tailings Tragedy Shows Need for Stronger Regulation and Effective Enforcement 12.09.2022
MiningWatch in the News Facing down governments and industry, this First Nation makes a promise: There’ll be no development in the Ring of Fire without its consent 12.09.2022
MiningWatch in the News A tiny fraction of the high seas are protected. Why a UN treaty is needed now more than ever 26.08.2022
Friends of MiningWatch Unprecedented Boom in Mining Claims Around Mont Tremblant and Southern Quebec: Call for Moratorium 18.08.2022
MiningWatch in the News How the energy transition was used as justification to continue mining during the pandemic 04.08.2022
News Release Health, Environment, Economy: Quebec Must Stop Being a Mining Wild West, Says New Survey 02.08.2022
MiningWatch in the News U.K. court to hear lawsuit for victims of deadly Brazil mine collapse and flood 22.07.2022
MiningWatch in the News B.C. has a growing mine waste problem. The risks could be catastrophic. 14.07.2022
News Release New Analysis Confirms High Risk, Threats Posed by B.C.'s Booming Mining Sector 14.07.2022
MiningWatch in the News MPs study resource extraction and violence against Indigenous women 28.06.2022
News Release Justice Delayed - Thirty Villagers Win Decades-Old Case Against Canadian Gold Mine in Philippines 21.06.2022
MiningWatch in the News B.C. mining company recovers final two bodies of eight workers killed in Burkina Faso flood 20.06.2022
News Release Batteries and Polluted Water: Citizens Begin Independent Environmental Monitoring of NMG-Pallinghurst Project 16.06.2022
News Release Canada Pushes More Mining During PDAC 2022, Even as Indigenous Leaders are Detained in Ecuador 14.06.2022
MiningWatch in the News 'Rapid development' of mines 'urgently required' – Canada's resources minister 14.06.2022
MiningWatch in the News Barrick facing new allegations of contamination near Veladero mine in Argentina 13.06.2022
Friends of MiningWatch Community Groups Resisting Mining from the Philippines to the High Arctic Block Entrance to World’s Biggest Mining Convention in Toronto 13.06.2022
Friends of MiningWatch Communities in Argentina Denounce the Government for Promoting the Esquel Mine During PDAC 2022 13.06.2022
News Release Indonesian Women Win Legal Victory to Protect Small Island Home From Canadian Baru Gold 10.06.2022
MiningWatch in the News Economic development should serve all, Trudeau says as Chile reforms mining sector 07.06.2022
MiningWatch in the News Shopify finds conflict minerals in its third-party manufactured components 03.06.2022
MiningWatch in the News Tailings dam ruptures still happen even with industry standards, say critics 03.06.2022
MiningWatch in the News Tailings dams must get community consent, ensure zero harm - report 01.06.2022
News Release Acquisition of Yamana Gold Proceeds as Two More Water Defenders Arrested in Andalgalá, Argentina 31.05.2022
MiningWatch in the News Bodies of two more missing workers found at B.C. company’s Burkina Faso mine 30.05.2022
Friends of MiningWatch URGENT COMMUNIQUÉ Two arrested in Andalgalá for fighting against the M.A.R.A. - AGUA RICA installation 30.05.2022
MiningWatch in the News 'Astonishingly poor response': Industry watchdog criticizes B.C. company after deaths of 4 Burkina Faso miners 26.05.2022
News Release Organizations Ask Minister to Withdraw 5161 Mining Claims Affecting Eskers of Abitibi-Témiscamingue 25.05.2022
News Release Mine Waste Leaves Toxic Legacies in South Africa - And International Launch of Tailings Report 24.05.2022
News Release Statement on the Alberta Court of Appeal Ruling on Federal Environmental Assessment Law 10.05.2022
MiningWatch in the News Eight miners enter fourth week trapped in flooded Canadian-owned mine in West Africa 09.05.2022
News Release Barrick’s Rhetoric Belies the Lived Reality of Communities at its Mines Around the World 03.05.2022
MiningWatch in the News Canadian Companies Expected to Uphold Ethical Standards Abroad Under New Strategy 29.04.2022
News Release Family of Murdered Mexican Environment Defender Seek Leave to Appeal to Canada’s Supreme Court 19.04.2022
MiningWatch in the News Between a rock and an arts place: can a B.C. town survive another gold rush? 09.04.2022
News Release Weakening Quebec Nickel Standards: A Dangerous Attack on Public Health and the Environment 06.04.2022
Friends of MiningWatch Galaxy Lithium's James Bay Project Would Cause Important Arsenic Contamination 01.04.2022
Friends of MiningWatch Abitibi-Témiscamingue Groups Launch Petition in Support of Long Point First Nation 31.03.2022
MiningWatch in the News ‘Deeply disturbing’ report raises questions about federal interventions supporting Canadian mining companies overseas despite human rights concerns 30.03.2022
MiningWatch in the News NDP MPs table private bills to improve accountability of Canadian companies abroad 29.03.2022
News Release Two Bills Tabled in Parliament Today Pave Way Towards Corporate Accountability in Canada 29.03.2022
Friends of MiningWatch Long Point First Nation Requests Indigenous-Led Impact Assessment and a Cumulative Impact Assessment on All Sayona Mining Lithium Activities 21.03.2022
News Release Court Rules Ottawa Can Maintain Secrecy on Aid to Goldcorp in Human Rights Dispute 02.03.2022
Friends of MiningWatch Movement of Dam-Affected People (MAB) Partners with Brazilian Public Universities to Study Impacts of Dam Breach 23.02.2022
Friends of MiningWatch Canadian Investors Injected Over US$ 2 billion into Mining Companies with History of Human Rights and Environmental Violations in the Brazilian Amazon 22.02.2022
MiningWatch in the News Oversights and overstatements: where B.C.’s mine waste audit fell short 04.02.2022
Friends of MiningWatch Panama is Worth More Without Mining: Position Statement on the Defense of the Environment and a Rejection of the New Mining Contract 02.02.2022
Friends of MiningWatch Statement from the Panamanian Union of Small Farmers on the Mining Contract with First Quantum Minerals 02.02.2022
MiningWatch in the News Chile is in for a mining boom. Could a new constitution prevent environmental catastrophe? 28.01.2022
Friends of MiningWatch New Report Recommends First Nations in B.C. Take Immediate Control of Mining in Their Territories 27.01.2022
MiningWatch in the News Why Imperial Metals surrendered its mining rights in B.C.’s Skagit headwaters 20.01.2022
MiningWatch in the News Deep-sea mining regulator’s latest meeting on rules only muddies the water 17.12.2021
News Release The Metals Company’s Fortunes Sink As Deep Sea Governance Body Meets to Rush Rules 09.12.2021
Friends of MiningWatch Closing the loop: B.C.’s role in recycling battery metals and minerals to power the electric vehicle revolution 08.12.2021
News Release Report Highlights 8 Recent Cases: B.C. Fails to Meet Indigenous Consent Standard for Mining 06.12.2021
News Release 25 Municipalities Urge Quebec for Increased Environmental Protection From a Graphite Mining Boom 06.12.2021
MiningWatch in the News Could an Indigenous conservation area in Hudson Bay also be the key to saving carbon-rich peatlands? 06.11.2021
News Release First Nation’s Legal Action Challenges B.C.’s Colonial Mining Law – Groups Urge Reform 26.10.2021
News Release Bolivian Citizens Block Mill Operations, Accuse Canadian Company of Destroying UNESCO World Heritage Site 20.10.2021
Friends of MiningWatch Mexican Organisations Call for Investigation into Canadian Embassy in Mexico 18.10.2021
Friends of MiningWatch Communiqué of the collectives and communities of Oaxaca against "Canada-Oaxaca 2021 Indigenous Encounters" 13.10.2021
News Release International Arbitration Tribunal rules in favour of a Canadian company and puts foreign investment above Colombia's legitimate right to protect Santurbán 12.10.2021
News Release MiningWatch Supports Complaint Filed with OECD Against Canada’s National Contact Point for OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises 07.10.2021
News Release International NGOs Stand with Dominicans Opposed to Pueblo Viejo Mine Expansion 04.10.2021
Friends of MiningWatch Dispossession in Collusion with the Government of Guanajuato, Mexico 20.09.2021
MiningWatch in the News B.C. government failing to regulate dam safety, Auditor-General’s report finds 16.09.2021
MiningWatch in the News Hundreds of land defenders were killed in 2020, and that’s just the tip of the iceberg 15.09.2021
MiningWatch in the News Mount Polley loses appeal of $9,000 penalty for violating new wastewater permit 13.09.2021
MiningWatch in the News Can B.C. stake its claim as a leader in responsible mineral extraction? 24.08.2021
Friends of MiningWatch Statement: REMA Joins the Demands of the San Pedro Apóstol Community, Ocotlán, Oaxaca, that Semarnat Not Give in to Lobbying Tactics Promoted by the Environment-Destroying Canadian Mining Company Fortuna Silver Mines 21.08.2021
News Release Activists Call for Protection of Xinka Leaders Participating in Escobal Mine Consultation 18.08.2021
Friends of MiningWatch Nuxalk Nation calls on Juggernaut Exploration to cease operations and leave Nuxalk territory 16.08.2021
MiningWatch in the News Leaked report accuses Canada of covering for mining companies in war-torn Ethiopia 13.08.2021
News Release Coalition Finds Noront Has Not Disclosed Business Risk from Indigenous Opposition, Calls for OSC to Investigate Ring of Fire Proponent 06.08.2021
MiningWatch in the News Seven Years after Mount Polley Disaster, Mine Waste Still Flows into Quesnel Lake 04.08.2021
News Release Investor Alert: Belo Sun Discloses Misleading Information to Investors Regarding Controversial Gold Mining Project in Brazilian Amazon 29.07.2021
MiningWatch in the News Are Canadian uranium workers still more likely to die from lung cancer? 22.07.2021
MiningWatch in the News Credibility Crisis: Brumadinho and the Politics of Mining Industry Reform 16.07.2021
News Release Investor Alert: Nouveau Monde Graphite’s Top Environmental, Social, Governance Risks for EV Batteries 29.06.2021
News Release Petition Launched in Canada for International Moratorium on Deep Seabed Mining 22.06.2021
Friends of MiningWatch 180+ Communities, Organisations and Academics Reject Extractive-Heavy EU Green Deal 02.06.2021
News Release Human Rights Advocates and Legal Experts Deliver Blueprint for New International Corporate Accountability Law in Canada 31.05.2021
MiningWatch in the News It’s the End of Oil: Blockbuster IEA Report Urges No New Fossil Development 19.05.2021
Friends of MiningWatch SARW Opposes Attempts by First Quantum Minerals to Silence It Through Court Action 18.05.2021
News Release Revealed: The Dirty Secrets Behind B.C.'s Claim to Be a World-Class Mining Jurisdiction, New Report 17.05.2021
Friends of MiningWatch Sayona Mining Exploration in Témiscamingue: Long Point First Nation Asks Government to Immediately Suspend the Tansim Project 13.05.2021
MiningWatch in the News The Blackwash Part Two: Crimes against Black people no obstacle for signing the BlackNorth pledge 12.05.2021
News Release Civil Society and Downstream Users to Barrick: No Dominican Republic Expansion 04.05.2021
MiningWatch in the News Barrick Gold lost its 'social licence' in Papua New Guinea. This is the price it's paying to earn it back 15.04.2021
MiningWatch in the News Osgoode professor asks feds to disclose alleged aid to Goldcorp in human rights disputes 12.03.2021
News Release Human Rights Organization Condemns Police Repression Against Peaceful Protesters at HudBay Mine in Peru 11.03.2021
Friends of MiningWatch Belo Sun: at the worst moment of the pandemic, Brazilian government authorizes in-person meeting between mining company and impacted Indigenous peoples 11.03.2021
Friends of MiningWatch Ecuadorian Indigenous Organization Denounces PDAC Indigenous Leaders’ Roundtable 10.03.2021
Friends of MiningWatch Ecuador: Shuar Representative Denounces Threats from Canadian Mining Company 09.03.2021
Friends of MiningWatch Taseko's Gibraltar Mine in B.C.: The Tŝilhqot’in Nation Preparing for Environmental Appeal Board Hearing 08.03.2021
News Release Greenwash + Blank Cheque Company ≠ Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance 05.03.2021
Friends of MiningWatch Ecuador: Final hearing for endemic species case at Llurimagua mining concession to be held on March 11, 2021 04.03.2021
MiningWatch in the News ‘Too risky’: Atikamekw blockade targets open-pit mining project in Northern Quebec 03.03.2021
News Release Ottawa Must Disclose How It Aided Goldcorp in Human Rights Dispute, Federal Court Hears 02.03.2021
MiningWatch in the News Canadian parliament asked to probe role of mining companies in PH killings 28.02.2021
MiningWatch in the News Petition vs human rights abuses in PH tabled in Canadian Parliament 26.02.2021
News Release Parliamentary Petition Calls on Canada to Act on Human Rights Abuses in the Philippines 25.02.2021
News Release Environmental Groups In Court To Defend Federal Environmental Law from Attack by Government of Alberta 22.02.2021
Friends of MiningWatch Open Letter to United Nations Global Compact Ecuador from the Government Council of the Shuar Arutam Peoples 19.02.2021
MiningWatch in the News Canadian companies’ watchdog still unable to receive complaints about human rights abuses abroad 17.02.2021
Friends of MiningWatch The Atikamekw of Manawan Firmly Denounce the Government Decree Granted to Nouveau Monde Graphite for an Open Pit Mine in Ancestral Territory 12.02.2021
Friends of MiningWatch Sinking Seabed Mining: Papua New Guinean, Australian and New Zealand civil society welcome ban on seabed mining in Northern Territory 11.02.2021
News Release Quebec Authorizes the Largest Graphite Mine on the Continent, Adjoining Mont-Tremblant National Park 10.02.2021
Friends of MiningWatch Complaint Submitted to the IACHR Regarding Mining Zoning Bill Violating Indigenous Rights 10.02.2021
News Release MiningWatch Canada Welcomes Interim Latin America Program Coordinator Viviana Herrera 01.02.2021
News Release Pan American Silver Chairman Set To Speak at AME Roundup on the Importance of “ESG Factors” Days After Armed Attack Against Escobal Mine Opponent in Guatemala 21.01.2021
News Release “It Did Not Go Well” – Barrick Continues Pressure on Papua New Guinea Government While Ignoring Human Rights 04.12.2020
News Release Shuar Arutam people announce the submission of a complaint to the ILO against the Ecuadorian State 23.11.2020
News Release Organizations Urge British Columbia Pension Fund to Press Equinox Gold to Respect Community and Commitments at Mine in Guerrero, Mexico 06.11.2020
Friends of MiningWatch First Ever Inclusive Virtual Island-Wide Multi-Sectoral Consultation to Amplify the Voices of the People of Tonga 02.11.2020
MiningWatch in the News Quebec to spend $90 million developing minerals used in new technology 01.11.2020
News Release New Poll Shows Strong Support to Reform Mining, Create New Protected Areas in B.C. 21.10.2020
News Release Canadian Unions and Civil Society Organizations Support Bolivian Mineworkers Union Demands for Fair Treatment from Canadian Company 20.10.2020
News Release Groups say federal funding of new nuclear reactors is a “dirty, dangerous distraction” from tackling climate change 20.10.2020
News Release Landmark Rights of Nature Case To Be Heard in Ecuador’s Constitutional Court Could Affect Canadian Mining Companies 15.10.2020
MiningWatch in the News Northern Dynasty eyes controversial Alaska mine as high gold prices encourage ecologically dicey projects 06.10.2020
MiningWatch in the News Land Defenders Are Killed in the Philippines for Protesting Canadian Mining 01.10.2020
News Release International Support Builds for Indigenous Rights of Shuar Arutam People in Conflict with Solaris Resources in Ecuador 01.10.2020
Friends of MiningWatch Major Legal Victory for Endemic Species in Ecuador Rights of Nature Case 25.09.2020
Friends of MiningWatch Open Letter to Solaris Resources Inc. from the Government Council of the Shuar Arutam Peoples 23.09.2020
News Release Parliamentary Petition Launched on Deteriorating Human Rights Situation in the Philippines, Mining, and Canada's Role 22.09.2020
Friends of MiningWatch Changing the lens: webinar tackles regulatory rollback and championing indigenous voices in the “green recovery” 22.09.2020
News Release Canadian Mining Companies in Ecuador Face New Challenge as Constitutional Court Approves Plebiscite on Large-Scale Metal Mining 22.09.2020
Friends of MiningWatch Press Release, re: Sept.18 meeting between Ejido Carrizalillo and Equinox Gold 21.09.2020
News Release Historic Win for Communities in Chile – Barrick Gold’s Pascua Lama Project Permanently Put to Rest 18.09.2020
Friends of MiningWatch PNG’s approach to deep sea mining is ‘chaotic and uncoordinated’, all licences must be cancelled 10.09.2020
Friends of MiningWatch Mexico: Ejido of Carrizalillo Revokes Agreement, Shuts Down Equinox Gold's Los Filos Mine 03.09.2020
MiningWatch in the News 'A sacred spot': why goldmining threatens Nova Scotia's 'wildest' river 31.08.2020
Friends of MiningWatch New Research Conducted at Los Cedros Reserve Provides Insights into Plant-Fungi Symbiosis 28.08.2020
Friends of MiningWatch Chile: 14 Reasons Why Cannot Allow the Pascua Lama Mining Project to Continue 26.08.2020
Friends of MiningWatch Plan for Tulsequah Chief Mine Closure and Cleanup Is Major Milestone 13.08.2020
Friends of MiningWatch Mexican Network of Peoples Affected by Mining – Communiqué for July 22: International Day of Action Against Mining 05.08.2020
MiningWatch in the News Canada not walking the talk on its miners’ abuses abroad, campaigners say 24.07.2020
MiningWatch in the News Sediment plumes from deep-sea mining could pollute vast swaths of the ocean, scientists say 20.07.2020
News Release Barrick Goes To International Arbitration in Last Ditch Effort to Hold onto Lucrative Porgera Mine 13.07.2020
Friends of MiningWatch Constitutional Court Could Save Los Cedros Reserve in Ecuador from Mining 03.07.2020
Friends of MiningWatch ATM Statement on the Expired Mining Contract of Oceana Gold Philippines, Inc. (OGPI) 20.06.2020
News Release Canadian Ambassador to Ecuador Called Out for Promoting COVID-19 As Opportunity for Mining Investment 19.06.2020
MiningWatch in the News The deep sea could hold the key to a renewable future. Is it worth the costs? 17.06.2020
MiningWatch in the News Deep-sea mining: An environmental solution or impending catastrophe? 16.06.2020
News Release Letter Campaign Demands Canadian Government Take Action Against Canadian Mining Company in Chile 16.06.2020
MiningWatch in the News International arbitration: the key themes leading to mining disputes 04.06.2020
MiningWatch in the News Mining industry accused of spreading COVID-19 in remote communities by new report 02.06.2020
News Release New Report: Canadian Mining Companies Profiting from COVID-19 Pandemic, Putting Communities and Workers at Risk 02.06.2020
News Release Put People First, Demand Over 150 Canadian Organizations with the Launch of Six Principles for a Just Recovery 25.05.2020
MiningWatch in the News Mining The Deep Sea Could Mean Unique Ecosystems Are 'Lost Forever' 21.05.2020
News Release Community and Worker Health and Well-being Not On Agenda at HudBay Minerals AGM 21.05.2020
Friends of MiningWatch Wilderness Committee Discovers Illegal Mining Claim in Nopiming Provincial Park 21.05.2020
News Release New Report Highlights Deep Sea Nodule Mining Danger to Pacific Ocean and Island Nations 19.05.2020
News Release COVID-19 in the Ecuadorian Amazon: Over 100 Organizations Show Solidarity With Indigenous Shuar Arutam, Repudiate Mining Companies for Putting Communities at Grave Risk 14.05.2020
News Release Xinka People of Guatemala, Thousands of International Supporters Demand Answers from Pan American Silver 06.05.2020
News Release Global Civil Society Organizations Condemn Violent Dispersal of Indigenous Peoples’ Mining Barricade in the Philippines 29.04.2020
News Release On Earth Day, Land Defenders Share Struggles for Self-Determination and Community Health in Guatemala and British Columbia 22.04.2020
Friends of MiningWatch ATM Statement: Condemnation of violent dispersal of peoples’ barricade in Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines 06.04.2020
Friends of MiningWatch Message from the Indigenous Xinka Parliament, Guatemala, re: COVID-19 25.03.2020
News Release Miners at Barrick Gold Project in Argentina Demand To Be Sent Home for Fear of Coronavirus Outbreak at Isolated Mining Camp 19.03.2020
News Release Amazonian Indigenous Peoples Condemn Attempts to Forge Support for Ecuador Mining Project at Toronto Conference 16.03.2020
MiningWatch in the News Indigenous women mark Women's Day with protest dance against mining 07.03.2020
News Release Groups Oppose Repressive Chilean Government Seeking Increased Canadian Mining Investment at PDAC 03.03.2020
News Release New Map by Environmental Justice Atlas Reveals Patterns of Abuse at Canadian Company Pan American Silver’s Mines in Latin America 02.03.2020
Friends of MiningWatch Hundreds Block Entrances, Surround World’s Largest Mining Convention 01.03.2020
News Release Investor Alert: Social, Environmental & Financial Risks for Nouveau Monde Graphite 01.03.2020
News Release Supreme Court Rules that Canadian Courts Can Hear Slave Labour Lawsuit Against Canadian Company 28.02.2020
MiningWatch in the News Western Quebec municipalities, activists aim to curb mining operations 23.02.2020
News Release Canada Carbon Drops $96 Million Lawsuit Against Grenville-sur-la-Rouge: A First Citizen Victory! 20.02.2020
Friends of MiningWatch New Research Shows Mongolia Forced to Give Up Control Over Natural Resources 19.02.2020
MiningWatch in the News Barrick Faces Fresh Legal Battle Over Alleged Human Rights Abuses in Tanzania 11.02.2020
MiningWatch in the News Mining CEO Tells Vancouver Business Crowd He Sees a ‘Monster Opportunity’ to Profit Off Mining Disasters 31.01.2020
News Release Canadian Delegation Receives Report Linking Human and Environmental Abuses to Canadian Mining Activities in Chile 28.01.2020
MiningWatch in the News MiningWatch Canada pushes for global review of safety of tailings dams 23.01.2020
News Release Communities & Civil Society Call for Action to Prevent More Mine Waste Disasters on First Anniversary of Deadly Brazilian Spill 23.01.2020
News Release International Organizations Stand in Solidarity with Argentinian Water Defenders Against Canadian Mining Companies’ Attack on Environmental Law 06.12.2019
News Release Argentinean Provincial Legislators Condemn Mining Lobby Pressure to Amend Environmental Law 05.12.2019
Friends of MiningWatch Australia’s National Environment Group Gives Major Award to Aboriginal People Standing Strong Against Cameco 29.11.2019
Friends of MiningWatch Declaration of the Union of Assemblies of the Communities of Chubut (UACCh) 28.11.2019
News Release Canadian Mining Lobby Pushes to Amend Environmental Legislation in Chubut Province, Argentina 26.11.2019
News Release Indigenous Leaders in British Columbia and Guatemala Demand that Mining Companies Respect their Self-Determination at Home and Abroad 21.11.2019
MiningWatch in the News A Canadian company wants to build Brazil’s largest open-pit gold mine. Now that Bolsonaro is in power, it just might succeed 09.11.2019
MiningWatch in the News B.C. First Nations should require full clean-up costs up-front for mines: new study 08.11.2019
News Release Community Demands Justice Following Death of Neighbour Shot by Security Guard at Canadian-Owned Mine in Chile 08.11.2019
MiningWatch in the News Anonymous Facebook page touts ‘recovery’ at Mount Polley while mine waste still piped into lake 06.11.2019
News Release Mineworkers Demand Teck Come to Negotiating Table as Strike Continues into Third Week at Chilean Copper Mine 29.10.2019
News Release ‘When are they going to ensure the polluter pays?’: proposed B.C. mining reforms don’t go far enough 25.10.2019
Friends of MiningWatch Peruvian Court Rules Hudbay Minerals’ Contract with Police Influenced Criminalization of International Researchers 21.10.2019
News Release International Allies Applaud Victory against Economic Austerity Measures in Ecuador, Demand Justice for Violent State Repression of Protests 16.10.2019
News Release Over 20 Canadian Organizations Stand in Solidarity with Ecuadorian Indigenous, Labour, and Civil Society Organizations 15.10.2019
Friends of MiningWatch International Articulation of People Affected by Vale Travels to Europe to Denounce Mining Crimes in Brazil 11.10.2019
Friends of MiningWatch CONAIE: To our bases and the Ecuadorian People (October 10, part 1) 10.10.2019
Friends of MiningWatch Statement from Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE) and the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of the Ecuadorian Amazon (CONFENIAE) regarding Indigenous Mobilization and Civil Disobedience 08.10.2019
MiningWatch in the News OceanaGold’s financial and technical assistance agreement should not be renewed 05.10.2019
News Release Trudeau Government Drops Writ and Publishes Revised Ombudsperson Mandate, Again Fails to Provide Necessary Powers to Investigate Corporate Abuse of Human Rights 12.09.2019
Friends of MiningWatch Tŝilhqot’in Nation Welcomes Injunction Halting Taseko Drilling Program 06.09.2019
Friends of MiningWatch Moratorium on Deep Sea Mining Welcomed But More Courage Required of PM Marape: PNG citizens call for a full ban on seabed mining 05.09.2019
MiningWatch in the News In a Turkish forest, resistance grows to a Canadian company’s gold-mining project 27.08.2019
MiningWatch in the News “We will continue until we win,” say the Turkish protesters taking on a major Canadian mining project 23.08.2019
MiningWatch in the News Multi-billion dollar fine on Pakistan puts the spotlight on a secret court 20.08.2019
News Release Abarca Family Files with Federal Court of Appeal, insisting that Canadian Embassy in Mexico Must Be Investigated 19.08.2019
Friends of MiningWatch John Perkins Announces Lawsuit Following Arrest at Atlantic Gold Public Information Session 13.08.2019
News Release OceanaGold Philippines Mine Shut Down – Villagers Blockade Site, Permit Renewal Withheld 09.08.2019
News Release Canadians Demonstrate in Ottawa and Vancouver in Solidarity with Indigenous Filipinos Peacefully Blockading OceanaGold Mine 09.08.2019
News Release Plaintiffs Conclude Lawsuit with Pan American Silver over 2013 Shooting in Guatemala, Communities Reaffirm Opposition to Escobal Mine, Warn of Rising Tensions 31.07.2019
News Release Federal Court Judge Concedes – If Canadian Embassy in Mexico Had Acted Differently, Mariano Abarca Might Not Have Been Murdered, But Refuses to Order Investigation 29.07.2019
News Release Mining Industry Lobbied Government 530 Times in 15 Months: Is this the reason for diluted mandate for business ombudsperson? 24.07.2019
News Release Why the Rush for Seabed Mining? Intrigue, Collusion and Interesting Bedfellows 17.07.2019
News Release Canadian Mines Ministers Meet in Cranbrook: Is B.C.’s competitive advantage weak environmental regulation? 16.07.2019
News Release Indigenous Peoples Blockade OceanaGold Mine in the Philippines: Company Operates Despite Expired Licence 10.07.2019
MiningWatch in the News Canada brushed off abuse complaints against Barrick-linked gold miner in Tanzania, emails show 10.07.2019
Friends of MiningWatch No to the Cerro del Gallo Mining Project in the Cradle of Independence 08.07.2019
News Release From Bad to Worse on Mining: Groups Urge B.C. Government to Reform Outdated Laws 04.07.2019
News Release Letter with over 65 signatures of Guatemalan and International Organizations delivered to Attorney General Demanding Protective Measures Be Upheld for Xinca Lawyer and Communities Opposing Escobal Mine 03.07.2019
Friends of MiningWatch Tŝilhqot’in Nation Announces Peaceful Action to Protect Teẑtan Biny and Yanah Biny, Calls on Government of British Columbia to Intervene 01.07.2019
MiningWatch in the News Tailings dam failures linked to hefty bonuses for mine managers: report 24.06.2019
News Release MEDIA ALERT: MiningWatch Canada Available for Comment on Global Affairs Canada’s Updated “Voices at Risk Guidelines for Supporting Human Rights Defenders” 14.06.2019
News Release “Boxing with My Hands Tied Behind My Back”: Barrick Grievance Mechanism in Tanzania Not Fair, Say Lawyer, Village Representatives 11.06.2019
MiningWatch in the News Canadian mining companies will now face human rights charges in Canadian courts 07.06.2019
MiningWatch in the News Mining in Canada is shrinking, and a wave of impassioned community opposition is partly to blame 06.06.2019
MiningWatch in the News Argentine court denies Canadian gold miner’s challenge to law against mining on glaciers 06.06.2019
News Release Another Spill at Tata Steel's Iron Mine: Quebec Minister of the Environment Must Take Action 29.05.2019
MiningWatch in the News Barrick proposes low-ball buyout offer for beleaguered Tanzanian subsidiary Acacia 22.05.2019
News Release New Expert Report Finds Canada Carbon Project Uneconomic, $96 Million Damage Claim Against Municipality Unfounded – Complaint Filed with B.C. Securities Commission 22.05.2019
News Release Senate Amendments, Weak Proposed Regulations Threaten to Push Federal Environmental Assessment Bill C-69 Into Irrelevance 14.05.2019
Friends of MiningWatch 100,000 March in Colombia to Protect Drinking Water from Mining Company 13.05.2019
News Release Xinka People of Guatemala and International Allies Concerned Pan American Silver Will Continue Unwanted Intervention 09.05.2019
News Release Indigenous People Call On Pan American Silver to Cease Local Interference Out of Respect for Consultation Process in Guatemala 08.05.2019
News Release Hundreds Take to Toronto Streets to Call for Justice for Communities Abused by Canadian Mining 04.05.2019
MiningWatch in the News UN watchdog critical of government delays with new corporate ethics ombud 02.05.2019
News Release New Report Exposes Mining Companies Suing Latin American Countries Where Communities Defend Land and Environment 02.05.2019
News Release Over 50 Organizations Urge World Bank to Boost Recycling, Circular Economy & Non-Mining Solutions for a Truly Climate Smart Agenda 01.05.2019
Friends of MiningWatch Securities Complaint: Northern Dynasty Minerals Misleading Investors Over Pebble 30.04.2019
News Release Over Two Hundred Organizations Denounce Multimillion-Dollar Suit Brought by U.S. Mining Firm Against Guatemala 24.04.2019
Friends of MiningWatch Mexican Court Grants Indigenous Community Injunction Against Almaden Minerals’ Mining Concessions 23.04.2019
MiningWatch in the News Canada slowly pushes for corporate transparency as part of anti-corruption push 21.04.2019
MiningWatch in the News Internal memo at Natural Resources Canada responds to The Narwhal’s reporting on low mining taxes and royalties 08.04.2019
MiningWatch in the News 'Lobbied to death': Liberals face backlash over corporate responsibility ombudsman 08.04.2019
MiningWatch in the News The Marcopper disaster: A tragedy that continues in people’s veins 03.04.2019
News Release New Environment Commissioner Audit: Canada Fails To Protect Waters & Fish from Mine Pollution 02.04.2019
News Release Ground-Breaking Federal Court Hearing over Canadian Mining Diplomacy and Assassination of Mexican Community Leader 26.03.2019
MiningWatch in the News Osgoode Hall professor will argue Canada should investigate assassination of Mexican activist 24.03.2019
News Release MiningWatch Canada Expresses Support for Ongoing Community Resistance Against Canadian Mining Project in Southern Ecuador 14.03.2019
News Release Nautilus Seeks Financial Protection: Key players looked after at the expense of small shareholders and Papua New Guinea 13.03.2019
News Release Organizations ask the UN to Intervene in the Protection of the Santurbán Páramo, at Risk From Mining 13.03.2019
News Release “Will Today’s Deal Bring Tomorrow’s Disaster?” Mining Companies Denounced for Human Rights Abuses and Environmental Disasters 03.03.2019
News Release Canadian and International Organizations Express Support to 30 Organizations Resisting Cornerstone Capital Resources 03.03.2019
News Release 30 Ecuadorian Organizations Write Open Letter to Cornerstone Capital Resources to Demand they Abandon their Activities and Leave their Communities 01.03.2019
News Release 30 Ecuadorian Organizations Write-Open Letter to Cornerstone Capital Resources to Demand they Abandon their Activities and Leave their Communities 01.03.2019
News Release World Bank Arbitration Tribunal Refuses to Listen to Those Affected by Mining in Santurban, Colombia 28.02.2019
News Release Ecuadorian Network Denounces Possible Threat of Investment Arbitration Made by Canadian Company 19.02.2019
News Release MiningWatch Canada, International Organizations Demand Vale Be Excluded from UN Global Compact 12.02.2019
News Release Ecuadorian Indigenous Organization Denounces Ecuadorian Government’s Co-hosted Promotion with Solaris Copper 12.02.2019
Friends of MiningWatch Nova Scotia Ministry of Energy and Mines Withholds Toxic Leak Information 28.01.2019
Friends of MiningWatch VALE OF DEATH: Statement on the collapse of the tailing dam in Brumadinho 25.01.2019
MiningWatch in the News Top court weighs precedent-setting case of human rights breaches at Canadian mine in Eritrea 23.01.2019
MiningWatch in the News Canada’s overseas mining practices on trial in alleged rights abuse case 18.01.2019
News Release INV Metals Releases Full Feasibility Study for Ecuador Project: Shareholders Need to Inform Themselves about Lack of Community Support 15.01.2019
News Release Parish in Ecuador Alerts Canadian Company, Cornerstone Resources, that they are not welcome in their communities 14.01.2019
News Release MEDIA ADVISORY: MiningWatch Canada, Ecojustice Available to Comment on New Prosperity Mine Court Case 14.01.2019
News Release Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board Alerted about Dangerous Investment Ahead of Pan American Silver-Tahoe Resources Merger 07.01.2019
News Release Securities Commissions Asked to Investigate Ahead of January 8 Tahoe-Pan American Silver Merger 03.01.2019
News Release Indigenous Rights Defenders Targeted Over Opposition to OceanaGold Mine, Seek Support from Canadian Embassy in Philippines 18.12.2018
MiningWatch in the News Proposed Lithium Mine in Quebec Town Galvanizes Residents Who Fear for Their Water Supply 29.11.2018
News Release Mining-Affected Communities Ask: Where Is Canada's Ombudsperson for Responsible Enterprise? 28.11.2018
News Release Family Members and Allies of Mariano Abarca Denounce Nine Years of Impunity for His Assassination 26.11.2018
Friends of MiningWatch Papua New Guinea Landowners to Challenge 29 Year Old Porgera Mine in Supreme Court 18.11.2018
Friends of MiningWatch Neskantaga and Eabametoong First Nations Issue Declaration of Alliance and Shared Regulatory Territory 09.11.2018
News Release Residents of Brazilian Municipality Concerned About Future Stability of Canadian-Operated Mine 07.11.2018
Friends of MiningWatch Justice for Roşia Montană! Roşia Montană Voices to be Heard in Illegal Romanian Gold Mine Litigation 05.11.2018
News Release New Study Supports Calls for OceanaGold’s Didipio Mine in the Philippines To Be Closed 30.10.2018
Friends of MiningWatch Nautilus, Are You Nuts?! Second Large Earthquake Near Proposed Solwara 1 Site 12.10.2018
News Release Supreme Court Accepts Appeal of Peruvian Human Rights Defender, Overturns Sentence 10.10.2018
News Release “Uniting for Healthy Lands, Waters and Future Generations” – International Conference on Mining & Communities Opens in Kamloops, B.C. 28.09.2018
Friends of MiningWatch Environmental Victory in Panama: Supreme Court declares Law 9 from February 26, 1997 unconstitutional 24.09.2018
News Release Indigenous District Council Rejects Shoddy Environment and Social Impact Assessment Proposed Mining by Canadian Company on Marudi Mountain Threatens our Sacred Sites and Rights 21.09.2018
News Release Criminalization of the Aymara People - Supreme Court Will Decide on Aduviri Case on October 5th. 20.09.2018
News Release More Than One Hundred Organizations Call for the Annulment of Sentence Against Aymara Spokesperson in the Peruvian Supreme Court and Reject the Unjust Payment of USD $31 Million to Canadian Mining Company Bear Creek 13.09.2018
News Release First Nation, Citizens Oppose Pancontinental Resources’ Mining Project in Sensitive Watershed Area Near Bancroft, Ontario 10.09.2018
News Release Tanzania: Victims of North Mara Gold Mine Violence Find No Justice in New Compensation Scheme 04.09.2018
MiningWatch in the News Canada’s mining giants pay billions less in taxes in Canada than abroad 16.07.2018
News Release New ‘Stand for Water’ Tour Kicks Off Today in British Columbia: First Nations, Citizens, Environmental Groups Join in Williams Lake 17.05.2018
News Release Integrity Commissioner’s Refusal to Investigate Canadian Embassy Prompts Application to Federal Court of Canada 17.05.2018
News Release New Ferrochrome Plant Proposal in Northern Ontario: Are the Impacts Worth the Benefits? 27.04.2018
News Release The Hidden Face of Transport Electrification: A “mining boom” that threatens to blow up the environment 24.04.2018
News Release Victims at Barrick Mines in Papua New Guinea and Tanzania Demand Halt to Ongoing Violence and Fair Reparations for Human Rights Abuses 24.04.2018
News Release Park & Waters at Threat from Quebec Open Pit Graphite Mine for Electric Batteries 13.04.2018
News Release Salvadorans Reinforce Commitment to Sustain Historic Mining Ban on its First Anniversary 05.04.2018
News Release President of Nouveau Monde Graphite Under Investigation by Quebec Securities Commission for Alleged Illegal Financing 23.03.2018
News Release Guatemalan Constitutional Court Keeps Tahoe Resources Operations Suspended, Orders Presentation of Further Documentation 09.03.2018
News Release Pebble Mine Investment Risk Warning: New Report Examines Hunter Dickinson Track Record 28.02.2018
News Release Asbestos Is The Biggest Killer Of Quebec Workers: Urgent Appeal to Political Leaders To Take Action 20.02.2018
Friends of MiningWatch Eabametoong First Nation Forced to Head to Court to Protect Homelands from Mining in Ontario 07.02.2018
News Release Mexican Delegation Questions Role of Canadian Embassy in Complaint to Integrity Commissioner 06.02.2018
News Release BC's Recent Crown Decision: How Can the Worst Mining Waste Disaster in Canadian History Not Have Legal Consequences? 01.02.2018
News Release Mining Giant Rio Tinto’s Tax Haven Scheme Costs Canada and Mongolia Nearly $700 Million in Lost Tax Revenue 31.01.2018
Friends of MiningWatch Golden promises and unpaid bills: The case of Oyu Tolgoi and profitable tax avoidance by Rio Tinto in Mongolia 31.01.2018
MiningWatch in the News The Canadian company behind this Mongolian mine has avoided half a billion dollars in taxes, report alleges 31.01.2018
News Release Environmental Experts Lay Out Expectations for Federal Environmental Assessment Bill 25.01.2018
News Release Arcelor Mittal's Mont Wright Expansion Project: Five Recommendations from Quebec Meilleure Mine 24.01.2018
News Release Long-Fought-For Ombudsperson Announced to Investigate International Complaints against Canadian Mining Companies 17.01.2018
News Release At Last, Communities Affected by Canadian Corporations Overseas Will Be Heard: Government Creates Human Rights Watchdog 17.01.2018
News Release What Green Economy? New OECD Report Finds Canada Worst of G7 on Recycling, Minerals Efficiency 19.12.2017
News Release B.C. Rejects Ajax Mine – Groups Urge Governments to Learn Lessons and Change Laws 15.12.2017
Friends of MiningWatch B.C. Rejects KGHM Ajax Mine - Stk’emlúpsemc te Secwépemc Nation (SSN) Reaction 14.12.2017
News Release Dead Mine Walking? Federal Court Reconfirms Taseko’s “New Prosperity” Mine a ‘No Go’ 07.12.2017
MiningWatch in the News Raids, incarceration and decimated Indigenous land stains Canada's reputation in Guatemala 06.12.2017
News Release Justice Now! Eight Years of Impunity Since the Murder of Mariano Abarca in Chiapas, Mexico 27.11.2017
News Release Organizations Urge Canadian Government to Cooperate with Costa Rican Investigation 22.11.2017
Friends of MiningWatch Trudeau Government Must Act after Striking Workers Murdered at Canadian-Owned Mine in Mexico 20.11.2017
News Release Peruvian Court to Hear MiningWatch Canada's Legal Action Against Arbitrary Detention in Connection with Hudbay Minerals’ Operations 20.11.2017
Friends of MiningWatch Algonquins of Barriere Lake Welcome Quebec Settlement with Copper One But Remain Opposed to any Mining Activities within our Territory 16.11.2017
News Release New Mining Act for the Northwest Territories: Have Your Say Before December 1st 16.11.2017
Friends of MiningWatch Former Attorney General of Papua New Guinea warns potential investors - Nautilus is a risky deal! 19.10.2017
Friends of MiningWatch Alaskans Comment in Record Numbers to Preserve EPA’s Proposed Protections for Bristol Bay 18.10.2017
News Release Groups Across Canada Urge Trudeau Government to Protect 100% of Lakes and Rivers 18.10.2017
News Release Acute Human Rights Crisis in Mexico Must Become a Priority for Canada, Visiting Mexican Rights Advocates Say 17.10.2017
Friends of MiningWatch Mexican Organizations Demand that Canadian Corporations Stop Mining Activities near Nuclear Power Plant 10.10.2017
MiningWatch in the News Guatemala court clarifies consultation area, denies action on export permit 27.09.2017
Friends of MiningWatch Media Advisory: Robinson-Huron Treaty Lawsuit Hearings to Commence Against Federal and Provincial Governments in Thunder Bay 25.09.2017
MiningWatch in the News Resource firms try to learn lessons from Canada's troubled history with First Nations 20.09.2017
News Release Mines Ministers Meeting Falls Short of Meaningful Progress on Environment and Indigenous Rights 18.08.2017
MiningWatch in the News Maliseet leaders to attend mining ministers conference in St. Andrews 14.08.2017
News Release Canadian Energy & Mines Ministers Conference: “No Clean Growth without Clean Mining” 14.08.2017
News Release Media Advisory: Indigenous Communities, Advocacy Groups at Canadian Energy & Mines Ministers Conference: “No Clean Growth without Clean Mining” 10.08.2017
Friends of MiningWatch Me7e Pípsell Ta7a Ajax – Yes Pípsell No Ajax: SSN Response to British Columbia’s & CEAA Environmental Assessment Office Ajax Mine Project Assessment Reports 09.08.2017
News Release Indigenous Advocate Seeks Justice - Files Charges against Imperial Metals Over Biggest Mining Spill in Canada 04.08.2017
Friends of MiningWatch 3 Years After The Mount Polley Disaster, Our Waters Are Still In Danger 31.07.2017
Friends of MiningWatch Tsilhqot’in Nation Seek Injunctions from BC Supreme Court to Stop (Again) Taseko Mines 31.07.2017
MiningWatch in the News The Anti-Mining Struggle in El Salvador – Corporate Strategies and Community Resistance 31.07.2017
MiningWatch in the News No Charges, No Fines For Mount Polley Mine Disaster as Three-Year Legal Deadline Approaches 23.07.2017
MiningWatch in the News Why We Need to Clean Up Mining if We Want a Renewable Energy Economy 20.07.2017
MiningWatch in the News Kamloops Council, First Nations & Groups Ask B.C. to Suspend Controversial Ajax Mine Proposal 19.07.2017
News Release Tahoe Licences Suspended for Lack of Consultation with Indigenous Communities, While Company Denies Indigenous Presence and Opposition 07.07.2017
News Release Barrick Gold Tanzania Operations Accused of Financial and Human Rights Abuses – Executives Once Again Fail to Address Human Rights Abuses 05.07.2017
News Release Mexican Organizations Bring the Fight for Justice for the Murder of Mariano Abarca to the International Level 30.06.2017
News Release Nautilus AGM : Solwara 1 Deep Sea Mining Venture Remains a Speculative Pipe Dream 28.06.2017
News Release OceanaGold “Gold Mining Company of Choice”? Not in El Salvador or Philippines 23.06.2017
News Release Prairie Mines & Royalty ULC Conviction and $4.5 Million Fine Does Little to Reduce Threat to UNESCO World Heritage Site 21.06.2017
News Release Lawsuit against Tahoe Resources cleared for trial in Canada, ‘Tip of the Iceberg’ with regard to risks 12.06.2017
Friends of MiningWatch Algonquin Nation Takes Mining Fight to Company's AGM: “No Means Never” 01.06.2017
Friends of MiningWatch A Breach of Human Rights - The Impact of the Mount Polley Mine Disaster, British Columbia 24.05.2017
News Release British Columbia Securities Commission Asked to Investigate Mining Company’s Failure to Disclose Material Facts to Investors 23.05.2017
News Release MiningWatch Canada Launches Legal Action Against Arbitrary Detention in Connection with Hudbay Minerals’ Operations in Peru 17.05.2017
News Release Indigenous Women from Papua New Guinea Appeal to Government of Canada for Help Obtaining Remedy for Ongoing Human Rights Abuses at Barrick Mine 09.05.2017
News Release Landmark Decision: Quebec Court Approves Class Suit Against Gold Giant Canadian Malartic 05.05.2017
News Release Almost A Quarter-Million People Worldwide Join Call For Nevsun Resources Investors to Divest Over Abuses at Eritrea Mine 03.05.2017
News Release Media Advisory – Nevsun Resources Investors To Face Petition Calling for Divestment Over Abuses at Eritrea Mine 01.05.2017
MiningWatch in the News Women from Papua New Guinea bring rape complaints to Canadian mining company’s door 25.04.2017
News Release What does Hudbay have to hide from Peruvians? MiningWatch Canada Staff Member, US Journalist Arbitrarily Detained in Peru over Documentary About Hudbay Minerals’ Operations 24.04.2017
Friends of MiningWatch Peruvian police detain filmmaker after showing documentary critical of Hudbay Minerals 24.04.2017
MiningWatch in the News B.C. Quietly Grants Mount Polley Mine Permit to Pipe Mine Waste Directly Into Quesnel Lake 17.04.2017
Friends of MiningWatch Alleged Killer in Canadian Mining Company Lawsuit Acquitted in Guatemala 06.04.2017
News Release Expert Panel Report Calls for Broad Changes in Federal Environmental Assessment Law 06.04.2017
MiningWatch in the News Stk’emlúpsemc te Secwépemc Nation's opposition to Ajax receives strong backing 03.04.2017
Friends of MiningWatch Stk’emlúpsemc te Secwépemc Nation (SSN) Building Allies Across B.C. and Canada to Oppose KGHM’s Ajax Mine in Kamloops 01.04.2017
News Release Salvadoran Legislature Votes for Water Over Gold, Becoming First Country to Ban Metal Mining Outright 30.03.2017
News Release As Salvadoran Congress Prepares to Vote on Unprecedented Bill to End Metal Mining, Governor From the Philippines Crisscrosses El Salvador to Reveal Impact of OceanaGold’s Operations in His Province 29.03.2017
News Release Village Houses Burnt Down – Again – at Barrick Mine in Papua New Guinea; Violence Against Local Men and Women Continues Unabated 28.03.2017
News Release 25,000 Canadians Join First Nations, Local Residents in Seeking Justice for Canada's Biggest Mining Spill 27.03.2017
News Release Media Advisory – Will Federal Prosecutors Lay Charges for Biggest Mining Spill in Canada? 24.03.2017
News Release Canadians Have High Expectations for Assessment Law Reform, Environmental Experts Say 21.03.2017
News Release Media Advisory – Leading Experts to Outline Expectations for Environmental Assessment Reform 20.03.2017
MiningWatch in the News Stephen Hume: Regulatory Chaos Leaves Taxpayers on Hook for Mining Messes in B.C. 08.03.2017
News Release Growing Pressure for Public Inquiry into B.C.’s Dysfunctional Mining Regulatory System 08.03.2017
News Release MiningWatch Urges B.C. & Canada to Honour Indigenous-led Environmental Review Panel’s Decision To Reject KGHM’s Ajax Mine 07.03.2017
MiningWatch in the News Toronto's buried history: the dark story of how mining built a city 03.03.2017
News Release INV Metals Called Investment in Conflict in Ecuador as Local Governments Declare Area Free of Mining 01.03.2017
News Release 280 Organizations with over 180 Million Members Worldwide Tell OceanaGold to Abandon Assault on El Salvador and to “Pack Up and Pay Up” 21.02.2017
News Release Petition Appeals to Trudeau to Ensure Imperial Metals Faces the Music for Mount Polley Disaster 17.02.2017
News Release While Mining Company Launches Lawsuit Against Quebec, More Than 2000 Citizens Show Support for Barriere Lake Algonquin Nation 16.02.2017
News Release European Report Features Tahoe Resources as a ‘Harmful Investment’, Reveals Billion Dollar Funds Have Divested 09.02.2017
News Release International Organizations Celebrate Precedent-Setting Step Toward Justice in Civil Suit Against Tahoe Resources in Canada for Violence in Guatemala 27.01.2017
Friends of MiningWatch First Nations Women Stake Mining Claim on Minister Bill Bennett’s Property 24.01.2017
News Release Mount Polley Disaster Stunner: Federal Government Moves To Stop MiningWatch Presenting Evidence To Court 13.01.2017
News Release Advisory: First Hearings this Week for MiningWatch Charges Against B.C. Government and Mount Polley Mining Corporation 12.01.2017
Friends of MiningWatch Seabed Mining in PNG: Environmental Experiment, False Hope of Economic Returns 14.12.2016
Friends of MiningWatch Indigenous land defence: An evening of speakers and multimedia in Ottawa 07.12.2016
News Release Prevent Mesothelioma and other Asbestos Diseases in Canada: Organizations call on Prime Minister for an Immediate Asbestos Ban and Expert Panel Review 07.12.2016
MiningWatch in the News Creation of a mining ombudsman on horizon, says Liberal MP championing the cause 05.12.2016
News Release Auditor General Slams Ontario’s Outdated Environmental Assessment Act – Groups Urge Government to Act 01.12.2016
News Release Mining Affected First Nations and Citizens Join Efforts in Urging the Quebec Government to Respect Their Rights 21.11.2016
News Release Murder of Young Assistant from Guatemalan Environmental Organization is Evidence of Escalating Risk to Human Rights Defenders 16.11.2016
News Release Report Calls for New Measures to Prevent and Remedy Harm by Multinational Companies 15.11.2016
MiningWatch in the News Canadian Mining Harms Around the World: Criminal and Civil Law Reform Needed Now 13.11.2016
News Release New Law Would Create Human Rights Ombudsperson to Investigate Violations Associated with Canadian Mining, Oil and Gas Operations Overseas 02.11.2016
News Release Civil society urges World Bank to withdraw funding from Colombian mining project 01.11.2016
MiningWatch in the News Violence at Canadian-owned mines turns up heat on Trudeau to create new standards 31.10.2016
News Release Guatemalans to Appeal Case Against Tahoe Resources in B.C. Court: Reminder that Canada Must Be Open for Justice 31.10.2016
News Release MiningWatch Predicts KGHM Ajax Would Face At Least $100 Million in Compensation or Litigation Costs If Mine Opens 21.10.2016
News Release MiningWatch Canada Files Charges Against B.C. Government and Mount Polley Mine for 2014 Tailings Pond Disaster 18.10.2016
News Release Advisory: MiningWatch Canada in Williams Lake, B.C. to Announce Court Action for 2014 Mount Polley Mine Waste Disaster 17.10.2016
News Release There Are No Winners: After Seven Years and Millions of Dollars, Pac Rim Mining Loses Suit Against El Salvador 14.10.2016
News Release Advisory: International Tribunal to Issue Long-Awaited Decision on Mining Lawsuit Against El Salvador on Friday, October 14 13.10.2016
Friends of MiningWatch Vancouver Court Clears Way for Slave Labour Lawsuit Against Canadian Mining Company To Go To Trial 06.10.2016
News Release Report to UN Committee: Canada Complicit in Mining Companies’ Pervasive Abuses Against Women 04.10.2016
MiningWatch in the News Police killed 65, injured 270 at Barrick mine in Tanzania, inquiry hears 26.09.2016
News Release Tanzanian Government Investigation Receives Hundreds of Reports of Violence and Deaths at North Mara Gold Mine 22.09.2016
Friends of MiningWatch Quebec Stealthily Lifts Mining Moratorium; Algonquins Respond by Preparing to Defend Their Ancestral Territorial Waters, Lands & Wildlife 12.09.2016
News Release On Eve of Enforcement Trial, Canadian Civil Society Calls for Chevron's Assets To Be Frozen So Ecuador Judgment Can Be Paid 07.09.2016
News Release Ombudsman Finds IFC Failed to Comply with Own Investment Standards on Eco Oro Minerals in Colombia 01.09.2016
News Release US Securities and Exchange Commission asked to investigate Tahoe Resources’ failure to disclose secret lawsuits 11.08.2016
Friends of MiningWatch Report: Government Failure to Adequately Address Tailings Pond Issues Exposes Environment and British Columbians to Continued Serious Risk of Mt Polley-Type Failures 04.08.2016
MiningWatch in the News Nunavut hunters pleased but not surprised that feds rejected Areva's uranium mine 27.07.2016
News Release Honduran Village Resists Forced Relocation and Exhumations by Canadian Mining Company 29.06.2016
News Release Barrick Once Again Ignores Human Rights Victims – Peaceful Protest Planned at Porgera Mine in Papua New Guinea 23.06.2016
News Release New B.C. Government Data Reveals Massive Increase in Abandoned Mines Clean-up Costs 10.06.2016
News Release OceanaGold Not Welcome in El Salvador and the Philippines, Company Told During Toronto Meeting 09.06.2016
News Release New Analysis – British Columbia Ranks Worst in Canada for Unsecured Environmental Liability of Mine Sites 30.05.2016
News Release Malartic Mine Expansion: Quebec Environment Minister Rushes into Public Hearings Despite Community Concerns 29.05.2016
MiningWatch in the News Newfoundland's Sisters of Mercy challenge Potash Corp in board room 25.05.2016
News Release Is Ivanhoe Mining Informing its Shareholders of Ivanplats’ Real Risks, Liabilities, and Irregularities? 18.05.2016
News Release Conservation Council of New Brunswick Comments on Sisson Mine Project Environmental Assessment Report 18.05.2016
Friends of MiningWatch B.C. Encouraging Environmentally Risky Mining and Creating Massive Taxpayer Liability 16.05.2016
News Release $200 Million Needed to Fully Address Community Impacts from Malartic Open Pit Mine, Quebec 15.05.2016
News Release Health & Community Impacts: Kamloops Delegation Learns Hard Lessons from Malartic Open Pit Mine 03.05.2016
News Release Victims of Violence at Barrick Mines in Papua New Guinea and Tanzania Demand Justice 26.04.2016
News Release Latin American organizations hope for stronger accountability of Canadian mining overseas 25.04.2016
News Release Canada Has Blood On Its Hands; Justice in Honduras Requires a U-Turn in Canadian Foreign Policy 21.04.2016
News Release New Report on AJAX Mine: Hundreds of Millions of Unaccounted Costs, Complaint to B.C. Securities Commission Recommended 18.04.2016
News Release Canadian Delegation to Participate in the International Gathering Celebrating the Life of Berta Cáceres in Honduras 12.04.2016
News Release Advisory: Ottawa Event and Media Availability – Indigenous Rights, the Environment, and "Free Trade" Agreements 08.04.2016
Friends of MiningWatch Report: Canadian fertilizer companies behind near all controversial trade with occupied Western Sahara 08.04.2016
News Release Groups Oppose Expansion of Canadian Malartic Mine, Urge Quebec to Strengthen Laws 01.04.2016
News Release Report - Mining, Corporate Social Responsibility, and Conflict: OceanaGold and the El Dorado Foundation in El Salvador 23.03.2016
News Release Ignoring Best Practices, Four B.C./Alaska Transboundary Mines Risk Repeating Mount Polley Disaster 22.03.2016
News Release Malartic Open Pit Mine in Quebec Should Serve As a Cautionary Tale for the AJAX Mine in Kamloops 15.03.2016
News Release Organizations condemn Eco Oro Minerals’ warning that it could sue Colombia over water protection measures 14.03.2016
News Release NGOs Warn: ‘Companies Duck Responsibility for Abuse Because of Flawed Human Rights Guidance, Lack of Independent Oversight’ 09.03.2016
News Release B.C., Federal Governments Urged to Halt Ajax Mine Project Review Until Full Feasibility Study Is Released 19.01.2016
News Release MiningWatch Shocked by Chief Inspector of Mines’ Report on Mount Polley Disaster 18.12.2015
MiningWatch in the News No charges under B.C.’s mining laws for failure of Mount Polley mine dam 17.12.2015
News Release Wake-Up Call: Ontario Ranks Worst in Canada for Environmental Liability of Mine Sites 09.12.2015
News Release Broken Bones and Broken Promises: Barrick Gold Fails to Address Ongoing Violence at Tanzania Mine 17.11.2015
News Release B.C. Supreme Court Stays Lawsuit against Tahoe Resources, Denies Justice in Canada for Guatemalan Victims 17.11.2015
News Release State of Fear and Terror Deliberately Created to Force Tahoe Resources’ Mine on Guatemalan Communities – Report 11.11.2015
News Release Ontarians on the Hook for Water & Mine Site Clean-Up Costs – Alarming Report from Eco-Commissioner 10.11.2015
News Release International Organizations Denounce Violence Against Indigenous Community in Mexico; Community Seeks Answers from Teck Resources 06.11.2015
News Release SOS: The World’s Oceans Facing Emergency; Singapore Summit Set to Worsen the Crisis 05.11.2015
News Release Upcoming ‘Under Siege’ Speaking Tour: Peaceful Resistance to Canadian Mining and Militarization in Guatemala 02.11.2015
News Release Impunity Reigns, History Repeats: Anti-Mining Activist Survives Second Armed Attack 22.10.2015
News Release Agrarian Authorities from Guerrero, Mexico, say Canadian Mining Companies Need a Reality Check 07.10.2015
News Release Report Questions Legitimacy of Memorandum Between Barrick Gold and Diaguita Indigenous Communities 15.09.2015
News Release AREVA’s "Kiggavik" Uranium Project: Federal Government Called to Uphold Nunavut Impact Review Board’s ‘No-Go’ Recommendation 31.07.2015
News Release Canada’s Mines Ministers ‘Open’ to Taking Action to Prevent Future Mine Waste Disasters, But Concrete Commitments Lacking 21.07.2015
News Release Worldwide Pressure on the International Seabed Authority for a Moratorium on Deep Sea Mining 20.07.2015
News Release Canadian Mines Ministers Conference in Halifax: Provinces & Territories Must Act To Avoid Mine Waste Disasters 20.07.2015
Friends of MiningWatch Red Light for Uranium Mining in Quebec: Quebec meillure mine Coalition Welcomes the Independent Panel Conclusions 17.07.2015
News Release Ecuador: Girón advances toward a community plebiscite to stop mining in Kimsacocha 12.07.2015
News Release B.C. & Alaska Indigenous Leaders Attending Seabridge Gold Shareholder Meeting To Protest Risky Mine Plan 24.06.2015
News Release IFC Boosts Investment in Contested Canadian Mining Project in Colombia Despite Ongoing Investigation 12.05.2015
News Release Stop the Suits Tour: International Investment Agreements Threaten People and the Environment from El Salvador to Canada 05.05.2015
News Release No Silver Lining for Eldorado Gold's Certej Project in Romania: Top reasons to stay away 30.04.2015
News Release International Delegates from Five Continents Sign Declaration of World Uranium Symposium 22.04.2015
Friends of MiningWatch Sale of Canadian Uranium to India Denounced by International Experts at the World Uranium Symposium 15.04.2015
News Release Tahoe Resources’ Administrative Manager Detained on Charges of Industrial Contamination 15.04.2015
Friends of MiningWatch Indigenous Peoples File for Injunctions Against Mining Concessions in Mexico 14.04.2015
News Release Ontario Urgently Needs a Comprehensive “Value-for-Money” Cost-Benefit Analysis for Mining 10.04.2015
News Release Wiretap Transcripts Raise Troubling Questions About Tahoe Resources' Militarized Security 07.04.2015
Friends of MiningWatch Exclusive at the World Uranium Symposium: Naoto Kan, Prime Minister of Japan during the Fukushima Catastrophe 06.04.2015
News Release Barrick Settlement on Rapes and Killings in Papua New Guinea Proof that Victims Need Independent Legal Counsel 03.04.2015
News Release Canadian Mining Company Eldorado Gold Devastates Greek Communities, Uses the Netherlands, Barbados to Avoid Tax 30.03.2015
News Release Mexican Network Deplores Conclusion of Canadian Investigation into Blackfire in Chicomuselo, Chiapas 11.03.2015
Friends of MiningWatch Community Responds to Report Revealing Complicity of Canadian Embassy in Excellon Violations against La Sierrita 25.02.2015
Friends of MiningWatch Algonquins Critical of Quebec's Conflict of Interest with High Risk $4 Million Investment in Rare Earths Open Pit Mining Project 14.02.2015
News Release Out-of-Court Settlement Good for Some Tanzanian Villagers – But Many Others Hindered from Participation by Barrick’s Grievance Mechanism 09.02.2015
News Release “Business as Usual” Cannot Continue: Mount Polley Report on Tailings Dam Safety 06.02.2015
MiningWatch in the News Unfiltered: Mt. Polley: How should the mining industry be policed? 04.02.2015
News Release Norwegian Fund Divests from Tahoe Resources, Canadian and U.S. Investors Urged to Follow Suit 03.02.2015
News Release MiningWatch Canada Proud to Announce Ugo Lapointe as New Canada Program Coordinator 02.02.2015
News Release International NGOs Call for Transparency in Murder Investigation of Ecuadorian Indigenous Leader 19.01.2015
News Release The Colombian Ministry of the Environment should ensure that there will be no large-scale mining in the páramo of Santurbán 22.12.2014
MiningWatch in the News Feds move toward protecting Canada’s ‘brand’ in foreign mining operations 22.11.2014
News Release Canada’s CSR Strategy for Extractives 2.0 – Government Acknowledges Power to Act, Declines to Do So 14.11.2014
Friends of MiningWatch Peruvian Community Denounces HudBay Minerals for Human Rights Violations over Constancia Project 11.11.2014
MiningWatch in the News Blood for gold: The human cost of Canada’s ‘free trade’ with Honduras 10.11.2014
News Release Washington, D.C. hearing to spotlight the Canadian Government’s failure to prevent harm and ensure justice for mining-affected communities abroad 23.10.2014
News Release Supreme Court Should Not Impose Additional Hurdles for Indigenous Peoples Harmed by Transnational Corporations Trying to Access Justice 20.10.2014
News Release Guatemalan Prosecutor Summons Tahoe Resources CEO to Testify about Criminalization of Community Leaders 17.10.2014
News Release Ottawa Groups Ask Australian High Commissioner to Support El Salvador over Mining Conflict with Australian Firm OceanaGold 18.09.2014
MiningWatch in the News Barrick Gold refuses to relocate villagers who suffer murder, rape and house burning 12.09.2014
News Release Increased Violence at Barrick’s Porgera Mine: Indigenous Ipili send Envoy from Papua New Guinea to Canada 11.09.2014
News Release Tens of Thousands Call On OceanaGold to Drop its Suit Against El Salvador as Secret Hearings Begin at World Bank Tribunal 10.09.2014
Friends of MiningWatch Open Pit Mega-mines in Quebec – Size Really Does Matter: Citizens’ coalition says independent assessment and new regulations are urgently needed 20.08.2014
News Release Violence Ongoing at Barrick Mine in Tanzania: MiningWatch Canada and RAID (UK) Complete Human Rights Assessment 05.08.2014
News Release Canadian Mining Watchdog Warns Arizonans of HudBay Minerals’ Poor Track Record on Pollution and Human Rights 10.07.2014
News Release Federal Government Blocks Completion of Nunavut Land Use Plan, Denies Funding for Final Public Consultation 03.07.2014
News Release Human Rights Organizations Urge Canada to Take Action Against Corporate Abuses in Ecuador 27.06.2014
Friends of MiningWatch Glencore’s Ruthless Cost-cutting Harms Communities in the Congo, Say NGOs 18.06.2014
Friends of MiningWatch Provincial Candidates Support Goal of Full Protection for Wolf Lake Old Growth Forest 10.06.2014
Friends of MiningWatch Human Rights and Environmental Organizations Denounce De Facto State of Emergency in Intag, Ecuador 10.06.2014
Friends of MiningWatch OSC Forces Chieftain Metals to Correct 2013 AIF and Retract Corporate Presentation 02.06.2014
Friends of MiningWatch Premier Gold Proposes Mine with Significant Environmental Damage, Minimal Environmental or First Nations Scrutiny 30.05.2014
News Release Wolf Lake Coalition to Press Provincial Candidates’ and Leaders’ Commitment to Protecting World’s Largest Old Growth Red Pine Forest 28.05.2014
News Release MiningWatch Canada to Participate in First Round of Quebec’s Consultations on Uranium 22.05.2014
News Release Barrick Gold Hit with Quebec Class Action - Follows Shareholder Suits in Ontario and US 16.05.2014
Friends of MiningWatch Supreme Court Hears Grassy Narrows' Legal Case for Treaty Rights and Against Clearcut Logging 15.05.2014
News Release Sixteen-year old girl murdered in continued violence associated with Tahoe Resources' mine – Canada Pension Plan urged to divest 07.05.2014
Friends of MiningWatch Ejido Carrizallillo Announces Agreement with Goldcorp, Ending 33-Day Strike 03.05.2014
News Release International Organizations Demand Justice in Deadly Attack Against Opponents of Tahoe Resources' Mine 30.04.2014
News Release Mexican Landowners Demand Respect from Goldcorp as Blockade at ‘Los Filos’ Mine Enters Fifth Week 30.04.2014
News Release Barrick Financial Woes Related to Human Rights and Environmental Abuses Raised by Protestors at Yearly AGMs – Shareholders Should Pay Attention! 30.04.2014
Friends of MiningWatch Five Major Mining Challenges for Quebec's New Government to Address 11.04.2014
News Release International Coalition Supports El Salvador in Battle Against Canadian Mining Company 08.04.2014
News Release Colombia’s Ministry of Environment unveils the demarcation of the Santurbán Páramo without specifying details of the measurements 07.04.2014
Friends of MiningWatch Community to File Suit for Restoration of Lands as Goldcorp Refuses Dignified Terms at Los Filos Mine 04.04.2014
Friends of MiningWatch Local Landowners to Shut Down Goldcorp Operations at Los Filos, Guerrero Following Breakdown in Land Rental Negotiations 31.03.2014
News Release ‘On the Road for Justice’ Speaking Tour to Bring Attention to Guatemala Mining Conflict, Need for Remedy in Canada 12.03.2014
News Release Four Years After Submitting Evidence, Organizations Challenge Anti-Corruption Law as Ineffective 10.03.2014
News Release Rejection of New Prosperity Project Provides Clarity to Industry: Lake Destroying Projects and Projects Without Indigenous Consent Need Not Apply 27.02.2014
Friends of MiningWatch First Nations Celebrate Federal Rejection of New Prosperity Mine Proposal 27.02.2014
Friends of MiningWatch Tsilhqot'in National Government: New Prosperity Must Be Rejected - Scathing Panel Reports Cannot Be Ignored 13.02.2014
News Release Film Premiere: "Honour Your Word" Documents Years of Struggle by Barriere Lake Algonquin to Protect their Land and Culture 10.02.2014
News Release White River First Nation Says Yukon’s Response to Ross River Dena “Free Entry” Court Decision Inadequate 07.01.2014
News Release Over One-Quarter Million People Side with Costa Rica in Imminent Battle with Canadian Company Infinito Gold 20.12.2013
News Release First Nations and NGOs Demand Full Disclosure and Government Action on Sherritt's Toxic Coal Mine Spill 18.12.2013
News Release African Barrick’s Confidential Compensation Agreements Questioned at Troubled Tanzania Mine 17.12.2013
News Release Is Ontario Getting a Fair Share for Our Mineral Resources? An open letter to Bonnie Lysyk, Auditor General for Ontario 12.12.2013
News Release Open Letter to Foreign Affairs Minister and Members of Parliament: Corporate Accountability and Withdrawal of Canadian Support for Gabriel Resources in Romania 04.12.2013
News Release Message to Canada’s Infinito Gold: Drop your outrageous billion-dollar lawsuit against Costa Rica! 21.11.2013
News Release Australian-Canadian Firm OceanaGold Bails Out Pacific Rim Mining: Deal means more punishment for El Salvador 20.11.2013
News Release Spilled Coal Slurry Not Inert But Laced with Arsenic, Toxic Metals, and Carcinogenic PAHs 15.11.2013
News Release Taseko Fails On All Counts - Again: Conclusions of “New Prosperity” Review Panel Echo Previous Review 01.11.2013
News Release Barrick Ignores UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Recommendation Regarding Papua New Guinea Rapes 28.10.2013
News Release Yukon Government Finally Listens - Terminates Tarsis Resources' Class 3 Mining Licence Application 16.10.2013
News Release Belo Sun No! Forty-four Organizations Oppose Approval of Mining Project on Xingu River, Brazil 10.10.2013
News Release Canadian Mining Company Infinito Gold Seeks to Extort $1 Billion from Costa Rica 10.10.2013
Friends of MiningWatch Chieftain Metals’ Announcement of Feasibility Study Review Ignores Major Flaws and Uncertainties of Tulsequah Chief Mine Proposal 07.10.2013
News Release Guatemalan Indigenous Organizations File Complaint over Mining Law with Inter-American Commission on Human Rights 03.09.2013
News Release Taseko's New Prosperity Project Fails on Environment, Human Rights, and Economics 22.08.2013
Friends of MiningWatch Top Canadian Lake Ecologist Says Fish Lake Will be Dead in Ten Years if Mine Proceeds 20.08.2013
News Release Family of Murdered Mexican Activist Seeks Answers on Canadian Embassy's Support for Implicated Canadian Company 19.08.2013
Friends of MiningWatch Civil Society Organizations’ Response on the Zambian Government Position Regarding the Protection Order of the Chisola Dam Project in Kalumbila 27.07.2013
News Release Canadian Complaints Office Should Investigate Destructive Large-scale Mining Project in the Ecuadorian Amazon 25.07.2013
News Release Guatemalan Complainants Celebrate Effective Suspension of Tahoe Resources' Licence 25.07.2013
News Release General Congress of the Ngäbe Bugle Requests Meeting with UN Special Rapporteur James Anaya During Visit to Panama 19.07.2013
Friends of MiningWatch Canadian Aboriginal group will not back down in fight against Rio Tinto's IOC - Buyer beware - Warning to potential purchasers 09.07.2013
News Release Calgary-based Infinito Gold Fails to Strong-arm Costa Rican Judiciary As Final Appeal Rejected by Supreme Court 04.07.2013
News Release Calgary-based Infinito Gold Fails to Strong-arm Costa Rican Judiciary As Final Appeal Rejected by Supreme Court 04.07.2013
News Release Nautilus Questioned on Economic Viability and Environmental Risks of Deep Sea Mining 26.06.2013
News Release Nautilus Questioned on Economic Viability and Environmental Risks of Deep Sea Mining 26.06.2013
News Release Canadian Organizations Welcome First Step Toward Extractive Industry Transparency; Further Mandatory Measures Needed for Real Accountability 13.06.2013
News Release International Condemnation for Barrick Gold’s Effort to Seek Immunity from Legal Action by Rape Victims 06.06.2013
News Release Complaint Asks Ontario Securities Commission to Investigate Tahoe Resources After Wiretap Evidence Implicates Employees in Violence at Guatemala Mine 03.06.2013
News Release Greek Delegation Asks Canadians to Help Stop Canadian Mining Company Eldorado Gold 30.05.2013
News Release Imperial Metals Operating Without Consent: First Nations Oppose Mining on Indigenous Lands 29.05.2013
News Release Chilean Organizations Call Ruling on Barrick's Pascua Lama Project 'Dangerous Precedent' 25.05.2013
News Release Violence Around Eldorado Gold's Mining Projects in Northern Greece Brings Critics to Canada 24.05.2013
News Release Industry-controlled Responsible Jewellery Council Fails to Fulfil Promise of Preventing Conflict Diamonds and Dirty Gold 22.05.2013
Friends of MiningWatch OECD Complaint Filed Against ENRC Regarding Mining Communities in the Democratic Republic of Congo 13.05.2013
News Release Tahoe Resources Investor Alert Calls Guatemala Project a Dangerous Investment 08.05.2013
News Release Report Reveals How Canadian Diplomacy Supported Deadly Blackfire Mining Project 06.05.2013
Friends of MiningWatch Mexican Landowners in Toronto to Demand Accountability from Excellon Resources for Abuses 30.04.2013
News Release Barrick Seeks Immunity from Rape Victims at its Porgera mine in Papua New Guinea 24.04.2013
News Release Groups Warn Infinito Gold re: Continued Threats Against Costa Rica Over Crucitas Gold Project 16.04.2013
News Release Guatemala: Tahoe's Mining Licence Approved in Wake of Violence; Investigation into Murder Pending 08.04.2013
News Release Cliffs and Feds Causing Unnecessary Delays to Ring of Fire Court Case, Lose Bid to Exclude Expert Evidence 18.03.2013
News Release Guatemala’s Highest Court Denies Justice to Indigenous Peoples Affected by Mining 15.03.2013
Friends of MiningWatch Algonquins of Barriere Lake Affirm Opposition to Copper One’s Rivière Doré Project and All Claim Staking and Mineral Exploration in their Territory 13.03.2013
News Release Innovative Play Puts Spotlight on Violence at Canadian Mine in Guatemala: Ottawa Theatre Presentation Echoes Toronto Lawsuit 04.03.2013
News Release Canadian and US Organizations Call for Investigation into Recent Violence at Canadian Owned Mines in Guatemala 28.02.2013
News Release BC’s Mining Sector Needs More Than Slaps on the Back and Market Hype – NGOs Release Mining Reform Top 40 31.01.2013
Friends of MiningWatch Chieftain Metal's Tulsequah Chief Mine Proposal Continues to Face Major Risks and Uncertainties Despite New Feasibility Study 30.01.2013
Friends of MiningWatch Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (KI) Walks to Parliament Hill to Say "No" to Treaty Violations 01.01.2013
News Release MiningWatch Canada Visits Demolished Protest Camp near Excellon Resources’ Mine in Durango, Mexico 03.12.2012
Friends of MiningWatch Taku River Tlingit Joint Clan Forum Rejects Proposed Tulsequah Chief Project 28.11.2012
News Release Keno Residents Want Out - Residents Say Alexco’s Mining Activities Are Compromising Tourism, Causing Health Fears, Threatening Water Supply and Lowering Quality of Life 26.11.2012
News Release Peel Mining Claims Worth Little: MiningWatch Canada Report for Yukon Conservation Society 19.11.2012
News Release Poor Mining Companies? Parliamentary Committee Report Calls for CIDA Giveaway to Canadian Corporations 08.11.2012
Friends of MiningWatch No Justice in Canada for Congolese Massacre Victims as Supreme Court of Canada Dismisses Leave to Appeal 01.11.2012
News Release International Solidarity with Families of Murdered Mining Activists Opposed to MAG Silver in Chihuahua, México 31.10.2012
News Release Aid Money Should Not Be Used to Support Australian Mining Interests in Africa 18.10.2012
Friends of MiningWatch Tŝilhqot’in Leaders and Communities Fully Opposed to “New” Prosperity Mine 03.10.2012
Friends of MiningWatch Chieftain Metals’ Tulsequah Chief Mine Proposal Faces Major Obstacles Despite New Chinese Partner 03.10.2012
News Release Investor Alert: MiningWatch Report Flags Significant Risks and Uncertainties Associated with Taseko Mines Limited 13.09.2012
News Release Fifth anniversary of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: Urgent action needed to ensure that the human rights of Indigenous peoples aren’t violated by resource development at home and abroad 12.09.2012
News Release Canadian Parliamentarians Meet with Guatemalan Legislators on Goldcorp’s Ticket 11.09.2012
News Release North American organizations call for stop to criminalization of rights advocates in Guatemala 06.09.2012
Friends of MiningWatch Mexican Army and Police Use Force to Break Community's Protest, Enter Excellon's La Platosa Mine 29.08.2012
Friends of MiningWatch Frustrations with Chieftain and Canadian Agencies Lead to Calls for New Cleanup Plan 22.08.2012
News Release Chile: Communities and Government Officials Redraw Borders that Barrick Gold Seeks to Dissolve 07.08.2012
Friends of MiningWatch Excellon Resources Provokes Break-up of Negotiations with Mexican Landowners, Threatens Violation of Land Rental Contract 26.07.2012
News Release Guatemala’s Highest Court to Hear Landmark Indigenous Challenge Against Mining Law 20.07.2012
News Release Formal Request Submitted to Ontario Securities Commission for a Full Investigation of Excellon Resources, Inc. 16.07.2012
News Release World Bank Group Opens Case on Eco Oro Minerals' Gold Mine in Fragile Colombian Wetlands 16.07.2012
Friends of MiningWatch Mexico: Excellon and Government of Durango Intimidate and Pressure Communal Landowners to End Peaceful Protest of La Platosa Mine 12.07.2012
News Release Leading Human Rights and Environmental Groups Urge Peru to Halt Repression and Human Rights Abuses Against Mining Protesters 11.07.2012
Friends of MiningWatch Ejido 'La Sierrita' blockades Excellon Resources’s “La Platosa” mine and stops production 09.07.2012
Friends of MiningWatch Union Recognition Vote at Excellon Resources' La Platosa Mine Plagued by Intimidation and Irregularities 06.07.2012
Friends of MiningWatch Algonquin Chiefs Issue Ultimatum to Matamec & Toyota Tsusho Corp.: Finalize Exploration Agreement or Cease Activities at Rare Earths Deposit 28.06.2012
Friends of MiningWatch Talks Falter Between Excellon Resources and Communal Landowners of the Ejido 'La Sierrita' 28.06.2012
Friends of MiningWatch Chiefs Prepare Eviction Notice to Mining Companies Working in the Ring of Fire 25.06.2012
News Release Ecuadorian Communities Welcome IAMGOLD’s Retreat, Warn INV Metals There’s No Social Licence for Quimsacocha 22.06.2012
News Release Nautilus Seabed Mining Experiment Falters: Dispute with PNG Government, Opposition by Pacific and Canadian Citizens, Financing Woes 20.06.2012
News Release Complaint Filed Against World Bank Group for Funding Eco Oro Minerals' Gold Mine in Fragile Colombian Wetlands 13.06.2012
Friends of MiningWatch Mining Development a Sneak Attack on Public Lands, Waters: San Gold Corporation Starting New Toxic Tailings Pond Near Wanipigow River Before Environmental Licence Issued 12.06.2012
News Release MiningWatch Canada to Oppose Licencing of Strateco’s Matoush Uranium Project at Hearings in Mistissini 04.06.2012
News Release Mexican Workers, Landowners File Second Complaint Against Canadian Mining Company Excellon Resources 29.05.2012
Friends of MiningWatch Algonquin First Nations Have Serious Concerns About Proposed Rare Earth Open Pit Mine on Traditional Lands: Seek MOU With Matamec 01.05.2012
News Release International Delegation Sends Strong Message to Goldcorp at Annual Shareholders' Meeting in South Porcupine, Ontario 30.04.2012
News Release End of Training Program for Aboriginal People Threatens to Decrease Access to Jobs and Benefits of Mining 27.03.2012
News Release Congolese Victims’ Pursuit of Justice Against Canadian Company Goes to Supreme Court 26.03.2012
News Release Murder of Indigenous Opponent of Canadian Mine Sparks Protest at Canadian Embassy in Mexico City 21.03.2012
News Release Keno City Residents and Businesses Suffering the Effects of Yukon Mining Boom as Alexco Takes Over the Town 20.03.2012
News Release First Nation and Conservation Groups Seek Investigation of Exploration Company God’s Lake Resources by Securities Regulator 20.03.2012
News Release Two Years On, Canadian Government Silent on Blackfire Case of Corruption and Murder in Chiapas, Mexico 15.03.2012
News Release Centerra Gold Inc. Flouting Mongolia’s Environmental Protection Laws: Organizations File Complaint with Canadian Government 15.03.2012
News Release Parliamentary Environment Committee’s ‘Paint by Numbers’ Report Fails to Produce Credible Review of Canadian Environmental Assessment Act 13.03.2012
News Release Canadian Embassies Bring Journalists to Mining Convention from Countries Mired in Conflict 06.03.2012
News Release From Coast to Coast, Canadian Groups Say Strong, Inclusive Federal Environmental Laws Are Needed 29.02.2012
News Release Royalties, Environment and Citizens’ Rights: Survey Results Support Demands of Quebec Mining Reform Coalition 27.02.2012
Friends of MiningWatch Chieftain Metals’ Proposed Tulsequah Chief Mine Fraught with Risks and Uncertainties – New Report 27.02.2012
News Release Federal Government’s Environmental Assessment Agenda Risks Public Health and Safety, Invites Environmental Disaster 20.02.2012
News Release MiningWatch Canada Welcomes Drummond Commission’s Recommendation to Examine Mining Taxes 16.02.2012
News Release Quebec Coalition Appalled by Minister Kent's Approval for Matoush Uranium Exploration Project 06.02.2012
News Release Honduran Civil Society Groups Reject Proposed Mining Law That Puts Corporate Interests Before Human Rights 24.01.2012
Friends of MiningWatch Investment Agreement Between Inmet Mining Corporation and Kores/LS-Nikko Cobre Inc. Violates Panamanian Constitution 09.01.2012
News Release Colombia: Marmato municipal council prohibits open-pit mining and resettlement of historic centre 06.01.2012
News Release Human Rights Commission's Climbdown a Wake-up Call for Human Rights Defenders in the Americas, Not Indicator of Goldcorp’s Performance 05.01.2012
News Release Wahgoshig First Nation (Ontario) Wins Injunction Against Solid Gold Resources' Exploration 04.01.2012
News Release Decision Pending in Wahgoshig First Nation's Injunction Motion against Solid Gold Resources Corp. 22.12.2011
News Release Ontario Labour Movement Warns of Ipperwash in the Making if Province Does Not Stop Violation of KI Sacred Burial Sites and Exploitation of Land 29.11.2011
News Release Parliamentary Review of Canadian Environmental Assessment Act Abruptly Terminated 29.11.2011
News Release Report Details Unacceptable Impacts from Deep Sea Mining by Canada's Nautilus Minerals 24.11.2011
News Release Scientists Warn B.C. Mining Rush Would Harm Alaska and B.C. Salmon, Clean Water 15.11.2011
News Release Tsilhqot’in Statement of Commitment to Protect the Land that Sustains Us and Our Future Generations 03.11.2011
News Release Impoverishment, Not Development, Could Be End Result of Goldcorp’s Marlin Mine in Guatemala, Says New Study 03.11.2011
News Release CSR Counsellor Fails in First Attempt to Resolve Dispute as Excellon Resources Abandons Dialogue 27.10.2011
News Release Federal Government Cuts Off Environment Network, Indicates Disturbing Shift Away from Canadians’ Priorities 14.10.2011
News Release Federal Decision Ignores First Nations and Public Input: Likely to Hinder Development in Ontario’s “Ring of Fire” 13.10.2011
News Release Panamanian Group Says CSR Award for Toronto-based Inmet Hinders Best Practices 04.10.2011
News Release Northern Ontario First Nation Calls On McGuinty to Stop Mining Activity on Sacred Burial Sites 27.09.2011
News Release In Response to Murder of Priest in Colombia, Canadian Civil Society Calls for Stronger Protection of Human Rights Defenders 15.09.2011
News Release Statement from the Mexican Network of Communities Affected by Mining Regarding RCMP Raid on Blackfire Offices 29.08.2011
News Release No Social Licence and a Long List of Inadequacies, Yet Federal Review Panel Recommends Approval of Matoush Uranium Exploration Project 28.07.2011
News Release Audit Reveals BC Environmental Assessment of Prosperity Mine Was Nothing But A Rubber Stamp 22.07.2011
News Release KI Passes Protocols and Water Declaration, MiningWatch Answers Call to Action 20.07.2011
News Release ACTION ALERT: Student Anti-Mining Activist Assassinated in El Salvador – Call on the Attorney General and the Minister of Security to Investigate! 17.06.2011
News Release Over 200 Health Advocates Tell Prime Minister Harper - “It’s time to put human health ahead of asbestos!” 14.06.2011
News Release Tsilhqot’in Nation call on Governments to Reject Re-Submitted “New Prosperity” Mine 08.06.2011
News Release Barriere Lake Algonquin affirm opposition to mine during Montreal company meeting: threat of mining on their land exposes failure of Quebec’s Mining Act 20.05.2011
News Release Goldcorp Asks Shareholders to Ignore International Consensus to Suspend Operations at its Marlin Mine in Guatemala 19.05.2011
News Release Affected Communities from the Americas Demand that Canadian Mining Industry Respect Their Rights 17.05.2011
News Release Canadian Government Abdicates Responsibility to Ensure Respect for Human Rights 16.05.2011
News Release Indigenous Papua New Guinea Leaders Protest Ongoing Abuses at Barrick’s Porgera Mine 05.05.2011
News Release Constance Lake First Nation Seeks Urgent Court Injunction To Stop Drilling by Zenyatta Ventures Ltd. 28.04.2011
News Release Communities in Argentina and Chile Protest While Barrick Gold’s Shareholders Meet in Toronto 27.04.2011
News Release Terra Firma Withdraws from Restigouche: An Important Win for Baie des Chaleurs Uranium Opposition 20.04.2011
News Release Tax Evasion in Zambia: NGOs File Complaint Against Glencore, First Quantum for Violation of OECD Guidelines 12.04.2011
News Release Three of Four Federal Parties Would Introduce Measures to Curtail Abuses of Mining Companies - Conservatives Continue to Lag Behind Canadians’ Expectations 12.04.2011
News Release Shareholders Announce Resolution to Suspend Controversial Goldcorp Mine in Guatemala 22.03.2011
News Release MiningWatch to Participate in Kiggavik Uranium Project EIS Guidelines Workshop, Government of Nunavut Consultations on Uranium Mining 16.03.2011
News Release Algonquins Are More Than Stakeholders: Wolf Lake and Eagle Village Demand Review Process to Examine Concerns About Proposed Open Pit Rare Earth Project 10.03.2011
News Release First Anniversary Update on Complaint filed with RCMP over Canadian Mining Company’s Apparent Involvement in Mexican Corruption Case 10.03.2011
News Release First Nations and Greens Urge Credit Suisse: No Funds for Taseko's Prosperity Mine 07.03.2011
News Release Oil and Gas Company Tries to Stifle Debate: Sues Quebec Mining Coalition Spokesperson 03.02.2011
News Release Environmental Organizations Call On Parliament to Extend Debate on Environmental Bill of Rights 02.02.2011
News Release Human Rights Report Confirms Rapes by Security Guards at Barrick Mine in Papua New Guinea 01.02.2011
News Release Government & Industry Steam Ahead on Ring of Fire Developments, First Nations Left Waiting on the Platform 13.01.2011
News Release Residents raise alarm over toxic mining outflows into northern Manitoba lake: Company and government actions questioned in toxic poisoning of Kississing Lake 09.12.2010
News Release Project to restart asbestos mine in Quebec: A forest in Australia, a cemetery in India? 09.12.2010
News Release Green Budget Coalition Releases Self-Financing Recommendations for 2011 Federal Budget 25.11.2010
Friends of MiningWatch Administrative Tribunal Sides With Communities of Northern Costa Rica, Annuls Infinito Gold's Mining Concession 24.11.2010
News Release Matoush Uranium Project Should be Rejected say MiningWatch, Cree Nation of Mistissini and Others 23.11.2010
News Release Teztan Biny (Fish Lake) Spared: Federal Government Acknowledges Negative Effects of Controversial Mine and Upholds Responsibility to First Nations 03.11.2010
News Release Suppressed Report Confirms International Violations by Canadian Mining Companies 18.10.2010
News Release Political contributions, DFO letters, raise more questions about BC’s approval of bad mine 24.09.2010
News Release The Innu Takuaikan Uashat Mak Mani-Utenam Restate the Facts: Labrador Iron Mines' Schefferville Project Still Requires Our Consent 15.09.2010
News Release Environmental Organizations Raise Concerns About Changes to Federal "Comprehensive Study" Environmental Assessments 10.09.2010
News Release The Innu Takuaikan Uashat Mak Mani-Utenam Position is Clear: No Exploration or Mining Without Consent of the Uashannuat 26.08.2010
News Release Matawa First Nations Chief Announces Deadline Following Meeting with Ontario Ministers 24.08.2010
News Release Innu of Uashat mak Mani-Utenam call for moratorium on uranium exploration and mining 17.08.2010
News Release Incomplete Reporting Still Reveals Mining Companies' Toxic Threat: Environmental groups worry some of Canada's mines are dragging feet on federal order to report toxic mining waste 10.08.2010
News Release Tsilhqot'in National Government: AFN Chiefs Pledge to Help Defend Lands Against Proposed Prosperity Mine 22.07.2010
News Release MiningWatch Canada Applauds the Senate’s Sober Second Thought to Protect Environmental Assessment in Canada 08.07.2010
News Release Federal Panel on Proposed Prosperity Gold-Copper Mine Finds Project Would Have Significant Negative Environmental Effects and Be a Significant Loss to First Nations 02.07.2010
News Release Guatemala Suspends Marlin mine - Human rights and environmental organizations applaud the decision, urge President Colom’s government to protect communities against retaliation 24.06.2010
News Release Judge Rules that Canadian Ambassador Slandered Documentary Video Maker – Both Ambassador and Canadian Government ordered to pay almost $10,000 in damages and costs 17.06.2010
News Release Mining projects in Schefferville: Newfoundland and Labrador government undermining Innu rights 10.06.2010
News Release OAS Human Rights Commission Urges Suspension of Mining Activity at Goldcorp's Marlin Mine in Guatemala 24.05.2010
News Release MiningWatch Joins Environmental Groups Demanding Changes to Canadian Environmental Assessment Act Be Removed from Budget Bill 11.05.2010
News Release Environmental Groups Nationwide Demand that Parliament Remove Attacks on Environmental Protection from Budget Bill 10.05.2010
News Release International Community Calls for Fair and Impartial Ruling in Marcelo Rivera Murder Case - Organizations in U.S. and Canada continue to worry about impunity in environmentalist's murder 28.04.2010
News Release Mongolian NGOs Appeal to the UN’s Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Business and Human Rights to Resolve Oyu Tolgoi Mine Dispute 23.04.2010
News Release Canadian Fact-finding Delegation Discovers Mexican Community Devastated by Mining Activities of Blackfire Exploration 21.04.2010
News Release Government Sidesteps Supreme Court Ruling on Environmental Assessment - Budget Bill Ignores Court Instruction to Streamline Process 01.04.2010
News Release Groups File Documentation with RCMP on Canadian Mining Company’s Involvement in Mexican Corruption Case 10.03.2010
News Release New Report Defines "Strategic Campaign Targeting Mining Opponents" in Cabañas, El Salvador 22.02.2010
News Release Blackfire adding threats to injury in Mexico: Canadian mining firm looks to pocket $800 million via NAFTA Ch. 11 22.02.2010
News Release Supreme Court of Canada Gives Public a Voice on Major Industrial Projects – Court Ensures Meaningful Environmental Assessments Across Country 21.01.2010
News Release MiningWatch Intervenes in Federal Environmental Assessment of Controversial Prosperity Project 05.01.2010
News Release Another Protester Against Pacific Rim Mining Corporation's El Dorado Project Assassinated in El Salvador - Second Community Activist Killed in Less Than a Week 28.12.2009
News Release El Salvador's National Coalition Against Metallic Mining Condemns the Murders of Ramiro Rivera and Felícita Echeverría 23.12.2009
News Release Urgent Appeal: Write to Barrick Gold to Protest Refusal to Reinstate Union Leader 23.12.2009
News Release Documents Show Corruption and Intimidation by Canadian Mining Firm Blackfire in Its Mexican operations – Ottawa Must Investigate Immediately 18.12.2009
News Release A “Free for All” As Mining Claims More Than Double In Carbon-rich Ecosystem - Public Interest Groups Call For Land Withdrawals To Ease Pressure 14.12.2009
News Release Innu, Doctors, Elected Officials, Local Residents Oppose Uranium Exploration on North Shore of Quebec 11.12.2009
News Release Guatemalan Community Leaders ask Canadian Government to Investigate Human Rights Violations Allegedly Committed by Goldcorp Inc. at Marlin Mine 09.12.2009
News Release Mexican Activist Murdered for Opposing Canadian Mining Company - Killing Sparks Protest at Canadian Embassy in Mexico City 03.12.2009
News Release Urgent Action: Stop Murders and Threats Against Mexican Activists Fighting Mining Abuses in Chiapas 01.12.2009
News Release Mexicans Celebrate End of New Gold Inc.’s Cerro de San Pedro Mine - Criminal and civil proceedings to begin against company management in Mexico and Canada 19.11.2009
News Release Mexico To Shut Down New Gold’s Cerro de San Pedro Mine - Canadian Parliamentarians and Mexican Congress members urge company to comply with the law 12.11.2009
News Release Canadian Company Accused of Disobeying Court, Misleading Shareholders - Citizens’ group argues New Gold violated disclosure rules in a complaint lodged with BC Securities Commission 10.11.2009
News Release Environmental groups take Feds to the Supreme Court — Canada’s highest court hears case defending public participation in environmental reviews 13.10.2009
News Release Urgent Action: Kidnapping of Opponent of Canadian Mines in Chicomuselo, Chiapas, Mexico 18.08.2009
News Release Canadians ask federal government to halt ratification of Canada-Peru Free Trade Agreement in light of Peruvian police massacre of Indigenous protesters 11.06.2009
News Release Action Alert: Canada must halt free trade agreement with Peru after violent police crackdown of Indigenous protest 11.06.2009
Friends of MiningWatch Panamanian Organisations and Communities Unite Against Open-Pit Mining 01.06.2009
News Release What’s Missing in Mining Act Changes? The Right to Say NO. Proposed Amendments Do Little To Prevent Conflicts 25.05.2009
News Release MiningWatch Appeals to U.N. over Human Rights Abuses Related to Barrick Mine in Papua New Guinea 08.05.2009
News Release Indigenous Leaders from Papua New Guinea, Chile Raise Serious Human Rights and Environmental Concerns Around Barrick Gold Operations 06.05.2009
News Release Mining Watchdog Says Environmental Assessment Key to Rebuilding Economy: “Don’t bulldoze our future in the rush for ‘shovel ready’ projects!” 22.01.2009
News Release Canada’s Toxic Mine Tailings Secret Goes to Court: Information on toxic pollution from mines being hidden from public 17.01.2009
News Release Fight for Public Involvement in Environmental Assessment Heads To Supreme Court: First Time Environmental Group Granted Leave to Appeal to Supreme Court of Canada 18.12.2008
Friends of MiningWatch Thanksgiving the “Cortez” Way - U.S. Ignores Western Shoshone Objections – Barrick Gold Readies Itself to Carve Up Mount Tenabo 21.11.2008
News Release Alert to Investors re: Petaquilla Minerals and the Molejón Gold Mine in Panama 18.11.2008
News Release Tell Prime Minister Stephen Harper to stop blocking other countries’ right to know about the dangers of asbestos 24.10.2008
News Release Fulfilling the Premier’s Vision to Modernize and Reform the Ontario Mining Act 05.09.2008
News Release MiningWatch Canada Response to Ontario Government Announcement: "Protecting Ontario's Northern Boreal Forest" 14.07.2008
News Release Canada’s Valuable Fresh Water Is Not for Dumping Toxic Wastes - with Background 11.07.2008
News Release Federal Court of Appeal Denies Requirement for Public Participation in Environmental Assessment 18.06.2008
News Release First Ever in Latin America: Mining Corporation Charged with “Crimes Against the Environment” in Argentina 18.06.2008
News Release Federal government denies need to consult public on major mining projects: Ruling will test strength of revised environmental assessment law 14.05.2008
News Release Barrick Gold’s Porgera mine in Papua New Guinea linked to grave human rights abuses, environmental impacts 12.05.2008
News Release Publication of Congo mining contract review welcome; renegotiations should be fair and transparent 25.03.2008
News Release Groups call for comprehensive reform of Ontario’s outdated mining laws: Courts being used to punish people who peacefully oppose mining projects 17.03.2008
Friends of MiningWatch Lack of Respect, Indifference Mark Ontario's Treatment of First Nations' Concerns 22.02.2008
Friends of MiningWatch Algonquin Leader Faces Jail Time While Ontario Government Ignores the Law 20.02.2008
News Release Congo Mining Contract Review: Fast Track or False Trail? DRC Government needs to clarify review process to restore trust 15.02.2008
News Release NGOs fear that Congolese mining contract review process has been hijacked: Time for authorities in Europe, North America to act 04.02.2008
News Release Aboriginal Leaders Face Jail Time in Spreading Disputes over First Nations Rights and Mining Claims - Consultation and Conservation Demands Conflict with Outdated Mining Law across Canada's Boreal Forest 28.01.2008
Friends of MiningWatch Landowners Blockade Excellon Resources' Platosa Mine in Durango, Mexico After Company Fails to Respond to Demands 23.01.2008
News Release Newfoundland Government Rejects Environmental Impact Statement for Nickel Plant 17.01.2008
News Release Government Prepares to Permit the Destruction of More Lakes by Mining: MiningWatch Canada Submits Environmental Petitions to Auditor General 12.12.2007
News Release International Appeal for the Publication of the Final Report of the Ministerial Commission on the Review of Mining Contracts in the Democratic Republic of Congo 07.11.2007
News Release Lawsuit exposes Canada’s toxic tailings secret: Groups say feds flouting law, hiding mining pollution from public 07.11.2007
News Release Bring Gramma Home! Hunger striker demands end to uranium exploration and mining in Eastern Ontario 18.10.2007
News Release Federal Court Halts Red Chris Mine: MiningWatch Canada Wins Precedent Setting Decision 04.10.2007
News Release Kemess North Mine "Not in the Public Interest": Environmental Assessment Panel 18.09.2007
News Release Organizations Call On Glencairn Gold to Disclose Pollution Risks at Suspended Mine in Costa Rica 11.09.2007
News Release Algonquins Demanding Moratorium on Uranium Exploration on Traditional Territory 31.08.2007
News Release Request for Solidarity and Support: Highest Turkish Court Closes Canadian Eldorado 26.07.2007
News Release Ascendant ordered to stop community relations at Junin Project, loses major investor 23.07.2007
News Release Prime Minister’s Controversial Visit to Santiago: Time for Barrick Gold, But Not for Communities 17.07.2007
News Release Federal Court Hears Case Against BC Open-Pit Copper and Gold Mine - Federal Government Allowed Mining Company to Avoid Full Environmental Assessment 18.06.2007
Friends of MiningWatch Barrick's Dirty Secrets: Communities Protest Gold Mining Impacts Around the World 02.05.2007
News Release Ecuador’s Toisan Range Threatened by Copper Mining Project - Immediate Action Needed on Roundtable Report 18.04.2007
News Release An Important Step Forward: The Final Report of the National Roundtables on Corporate Social Responsibility and the Canadian Extractive Industry in Developing Countries 18.04.2007
News Release Groundbreaking Report on Mining, Oil and Gas Companies Released: Civil Society and Industry Representatives Agree on Good Overseas Practices 29.03.2007
News Release Mexican Environmental Group Files Complaint with Commission for Environmental Cooperation 15.02.2007
News Release Jamaican Bauxite Environmental Organization Wins Restoration of Alcan Tailings Pond 02.02.2007
News Release Ontario Attacks Aboriginal and Treaty Rights in Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (KI) Litigation 31.01.2007
Friends of MiningWatch Transboundary Watershed Alliance Calls For Bi-National Assessment of Taku Mine: Fishery Too Valuable for Experiment With Unproven Technology 30.01.2007
News Release Organisations Challenge Ascendant Copper’s Claims Regarding Junín Mining Project 21.12.2006
Friends of MiningWatch Urgent Action in Support of the Civilian Population of Zamora Chinchipe, Ecuador 21.12.2006
News Release Ascendant Copper Ordered to Cease Work: New Web Site Documents Events in Intag, Ecuador 13.12.2006
Friends of MiningWatch Costa Rican Constitutional Court Upholds Cancellation of Crucitas Gold Mining Permit 06.12.2006
Friends of MiningWatch Carry On Polluting: Canada profits from global sales of killer asbestos, pursues 'de facto' ban at home 13.11.2006
News Release NDP Condemns Conservatives for Granting Big Mining Companies Green Light to Kill Lakes 09.11.2006
News Release Raid on Ecuadorian Activist's Home: Letter to Foreign Affairs Minister Peter MacKay 02.11.2006
News Release US Citizen Linked to Transnational Mining Company Ascendant Copper Infiltrated Demonstration, Now Presents False Accusations Against Intag Community Leader 30.10.2006
News Release First Nations Speak at Kemess North Hearings Under Protest: Call on Governments to Protect Environment and Act Honourably 30.10.2006
Friends of MiningWatch Final Results of Public Referendum on Cerro de San Pedro/San Xavier Mines Released 30.10.2006
News Release Vannessa Ventures Drops Defamation Charges Against Costa Rican Environmentalist 24.10.2006
News Release Life Before Profit! Development and Peace Kicks Off Two Year Campaign on Mining 24.10.2006
News Release TVI Pacific Again Implicated in Forced Evictions at its Canatuan Project in the Philippines 24.10.2006
News Release Roundtables on Corporate Social Responsibility and Canada’s Extractive Sector Wrapping Up 24.10.2006
News Release 25 Communities of Chalatenango Create a Symbol of their Resistance to Mining Companies 29.09.2006
News Release Canadian Mining Law and the Impacts on Indigenous Peoples Lands and Resources 19.09.2006
News Release MiningWatch Canada Files Complaint About Misrepresentation to Investors by bcMetals 14.09.2006
News Release Chalatenango Communities Say ‘No’ to Mining Before Salvadoran Legislative Assembly 06.09.2006
Friends of MiningWatch Dangerous Contamination Levels in Siria Valley demonstrated by independent study 18.08.2006
News Release Groups Call for Action on Cyanide Spills by Multinational Gold Mine in Ghana: International Cyanide Management Institute urged to immediately audit Cyanide Code signatory Golden Star Resources’ Bogoso/Prestea mine in Ghana 26.07.2006
News Release Civic Corruption Control Commission Investigates Non-Compliance in Intag Mining Project 21.07.2006
News Release Amended Metal Mining Effluent Regulations Published - Two Lakes in Newfoundland to be Destroyed by Mine Waste 19.07.2006
News Release Political Assassinations Increase Sharply in Philippines; Links to Mining Opposition 19.07.2006
News Release MiningWatch Participates in Roundtables on Corporate Social Responsibility, Canadian Extractive Sector in Developing Countries 19.07.2006
News Release More Troubles for Ascendant: Ecuador's Ombudsman Intervenes in the Junín Case 07.07.2006
News Release Gold Rush Threatens Sacred Headwaters in Northern BC - Environmental Assessment of Copper-Gold Mine Denies Public Rights 05.07.2006
News Release Pascua Lama Project Approved Despite Environmental and Indigenous Rights Concerns 15.06.2006
News Release Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug First Nation Says Ontario Mining Act Unconstitutional 26.05.2006
News Release Northern Ontario First Nation Facing $10 Billion Lawsuit for Blockading Platinex Mining Exploration 24.05.2006
News Release Federal Budget renews tax subsidy encouraging investment for new mines in remote areas 05.05.2006
News Release “No Means No to Ascendant Copper in Ecuador” Campaign Launched: Communities Call for Cancellation of Canadian Mining Company 03.05.2006
News Release Goro Protestors Face Judge Today: Demonstrators Pledge Support for Ongoing Indigenous and Environmental Struggle Against Mine 02.05.2006
News Release Urgent Action Required: Stop the Government of Canada from Turning Two Newfoundland Lakes into Mine Waste Dumps 27.04.2006
News Release Ontario Taxpayers Unprotected from Potential Costs of Cleaning Up $584 Million of Contaminated Sites at Inco and Falconbridge Operations 13.04.2006
News Release Inco’s Goro Site Blockaded Again by Indigenous Kanaks: French Troops Respond with Violent Action 03.04.2006
News Release Mayan Organisations and Supporters Demand the Closure of the Marlin Mine in San Marcos, Guatemala 27.03.2006
News Release Urgent Action: Mining companies to end support for community-based laboratory analysis of uranium tailings in the Serpent River 22.02.2006
News Release Environmental Groups, First Nations Oppose Dumping of Toxic Mine Tailings into Salmon Waters 31.01.2006
News Release Chalatenango: Communities Threatened by Mining Project Plan to Retake Their Land 23.01.2006
News Release Voluntary Corporate Standards Fail Again: Environmental Organizations Withdraw Complaint Against Ascendant Copper 16.01.2006
News Release Tensions Explode Around Canadian Mining Operation in Ecuador: Residents Torch Building 13.12.2005
News Release Ontario Auditor-General slams Mines Ministry over failure to protect the public 07.12.2005
News Release Ontario Mining Action Network Comments on Proposed New Ontario Mineral Development Strategy 28.11.2005
News Release Takla First Nation Wants Protection of Amazay Lake on Prime Minister’s Agenda 23.11.2005
News Release Pembina Institute publishes report on the untold story of Alberta's oil sands 23.11.2005
News Release Annual Day for Industry to Mine Canadians’ Pockets: Mining Association of Canada Takes to the Hill Amidst Growing Criticism 22.11.2005
News Release First Nations Declare a Moratorium on Mining Exploration and Forestry in the Far North: No Means No 27.10.2005
News Release Government fails to take action: Human rights and environmental abuses abroad go unchecked 18.10.2005
News Release Legal Experts and Prominent Canadians Call for Tougher Stance on Corporate Conduct Abroad 13.10.2005
News Release MiningWatch to Hold Roundtable on Regulating Canadian Mining Companies Operating Internationally 12.10.2005
News Release Hundreds of Q’eqchi’ Mayans Protest Skye Resources' Nickel Exploration Licence 13.09.2005
News Release Urgent Action – Stop the Canadian Government from Supporting the Rosia Montana Gold Mine 07.09.2005
News Release From Paradise to Toxic Wasteland: Oxfam Report Exposes a Canadian Mining Company’s Lack of Corporate Accountability in Philippine Island Mining Disaster 24.08.2005
News Release Internal Review Slams World Bank Over Lapses at Guatemala Mine - Backgrounder 22.08.2005
News Release ILO Investigates Claim Charging Violation of Convention 169 Regarding Skye Resources’ Guatemalan Nickel Project 16.08.2005
News Release Kemess: British Columbia First Nations Organise to Protect Amazay (Duncan Lake) from Mine Waste 13.08.2005
News Release Representatives from Siocon, Southern Philippines, Oppose Canadian Mining Company TVI Pacific 13.08.2005
News Release TVI Faces Social, Political and Environmental Risk in the Philippines: Indigenous Subanon, Muslims, and Other Residents of the Town of Siocon in the Philippines Align Against Canadian Mining Company TVI 13.08.2005
News Release Kashipur Alert: Sixteen Tribals, Mostly Women, Critically Injured - Massive Lathicharge on Adivasis: Tense Standoff Between Agitated Tribals and Police in Kashipur 13.08.2005
News Release Placer Dome at Centre of Growing Controversy in the Philippines over Submarine Tailings Disposal (STD) 12.08.2005
News Release Ontario Mining Action Network: For responsible and better-regulated mining in Ontario 12.08.2005
News Release Abandoned Mines Liability Tops $1 Billion: Watchdog Presents Action Plan to Federal Ministers 11.08.2005
News Release Environmentalists challenge government to give Canada's children a birthday gift: Federal Contaminated Sites Program needed 11.08.2005
News Release Indigenous Kanaks Blockade Inco’s Goro Site, Demand Hearing from Inco, Government Authorities 10.08.2005
News Release Parliamentary Committee Challenges Government on Overseas Mining - Canadian Company Seeks Millions for Conflict-Ridden Mine in Ecuador 22.07.2005
News Release Parliamentary Committee Wants the Government of Canada to Stop Supporting Destructive Mining Projects Overseas! 13.07.2005
News Release Goro Nickel Project Risks Growing Opposition from Unions, Kanak Representatives, Politicians, and Environmental Groups 11.07.2005
News Release Mining Watchdog Rips Fisheries Department: Releases Document Showing Wilful Disregard for Fish and Fish Habitat 28.06.2005
News Release WACAM Condemns the Shooting of Peaceful Demonstration by the Military and Police in Prestea 22.06.2005
News Release Anvil Mining and the Kilwa Massacre, D.R. Congo: Canadian Company Implicated? 16.06.2005
News Release OECD Complaint Against Ascendant Copper: Canadian and Ecuadorian Organizations Allege Vancouver-based Ascendant Copper Breached International Corporate Responsibility Standards in Biodiversity Hotspot 18.05.2005
News Release Canadian Laws Inadequate - ICUCEC Refused Leave to Appeal McClean Lake Court Case 12.04.2005
News Release Statement by TWN-Africa at a Press Conference on Campaign Around the Liquidation of Bonte Gold Mines Limited 11.04.2005
News Release Death Threats in Guatemala Against Community Leaders Opposing the Mining Operations of Glamis Gold, a Canadian/U.S. Mining Company 05.04.2005
News Release Killing of Alvaro Benigno Sanchez by Security Guards Working for Glamis Gold Subsidiary in Guatemala 05.04.2005
News Release Tahltan Elders Declare a Moratorium on Resource Development Within Their Territory 25.02.2005
News Release Ascendant Holdings Sues Local Newspaper for Libel: Asking One Million Dollars in Damages 12.02.2005
News Release Glamis Gold, Canadian Government, World Bank Implicated as Two Killed, More Injured Protesting Mine in Guatemala - Standoff Ends in Bloodshed, Death 12.01.2005
News Release Proposed new smelter pollution rules do little to protect health or the environment 17.11.2004
News Release Bad News for Flin Flon: Anglo to Sell Hudson Bay Mining and Smelting to OntZinc. 08.10.2004
News Release First Nations Coalition Wants Northgate to Justify Its Mining Proposal Against Their Interests 04.10.2004
News Release Environmental Disaster at Misima Mines Continues... Misima Landowners in Port Moresby to Seek Justice 22.09.2004
News Release Trouble in Paradise: Placer Dome Leaves Legacy of Destruction on Tiny Pacific Island 21.09.2004
News Release Inco’s Mineral Concessions in Guatemala Violate International Agreements and Peace Accords 21.04.2004
News Release INCO Violates Fundamental Rights of New Caledonia's Indigenous Kanak People - Kanak Leaders Visit Shareholders' Meeting 21.04.2004
News Release Inco Targeted at Annual Shareholders’ Meeting – Representatives from Communities Around the World Affected by Inco Gather in Toronto 21.04.2004
News Release Conservation Groups Call On Federal Government and Teachers to Act Quickly Over Cheviot Coal Mine 13.04.2004
News Release Canada Told to Stop Obstructing Safety Information on Asbestos: Ban Asbestos Network Calls For 'Prior Informed Consent' 01.04.2004
News Release Colombia Dismantles State Mining Company to Destroy Union, Open Way for Transnational Corporations 07.03.2004
News Release Glamis Gold Demands $50 Million Compensation for Not Destroying Quechan Nation Lands 07.03.2004
News Release Cluff Lake Decommissioning Project: Comments on the Comprehensive Study Report 27.02.2004
News Release Action Alert: Stop Intimidation of Brazilian Labour Inspector Fernanda Giannasi 25.02.2004
News Release Nuclear Safety Commission Allows Flooded Collins Bay Pit to be Opened to Wollaston Lake 27.12.2003
News Release Niobium Mine at Oka Closer to Operation Despite Widespread Protest from Local Residents 27.12.2003
News Release Indigenous Rights Still Under Attack from Canadian Mining Company in the Philippines 27.12.2003
News Release Major Gold Project Implodes in Peru: Community Succeeds in Opposing Controversial Gold Mine 12.12.2003
News Release ALCAN Juggling with the Futures of Marginalized Peoples in India: Three Villagers Already Killed by Violent Repression 10.12.2003
News Release Ontario First Nations Sign Declaration to Protect Rights and Interests on Traditional Territories 19.09.2003
News Release Noranda Retracts Environmental Impact Statement for Alumysa Aluminum Smelter in Chile 19.09.2003
News Release Noranda Faces Tough Opposition: Chilean President against Noranda's Proposed Aluminum Smelter in Patagonia 11.08.2003
News Release Federal Government Proposal Gives Mining, Oil and Gas Industries $260 Million/Year Gift at Taxpayers’ Expense 18.06.2003
News Release Controversial Romanian Gold Mine Plagued by Troubles – Canadian Company Involved 13.06.2003
News Release Chilean Activist Builds Solidarity with Canadian Noranda Workers, Students, and Politicians 03.06.2003
News Release Thai Government Reviews Granting Mining Lease to Canadian Potash Company - Hundreds of Villagers Visit Industry Ministry 02.05.2003
News Release INCO Closes Goro Nickel for Financial Review; Kanak leaders call for opening negotiations 19.03.2003
News Release Grand Council of the Crees (Eeyou Istchee) Pledges Its Support to the Kanak People of New Caledonia 18.03.2003
MiningWatch in the News BC Snubs High Courts and First Nation to Approve Tulsequah Chief Mine -- Federal Approval Unlikely 13.12.2002
MiningWatch in the News Stop portraying mining as the bogeyman: Riposte to "Beneath the Surface" 07.12.2002
News Release "Strengthening Our Voices: Leadership Conference on Canadian Mining Held in Winnipeg, October 4-6 30.11.2002
News Release Provincial and Territorial Governments Ignore Economic Trends: Mining Industry Strikes Gold — In BC and Yukon Taxpayers' Wallets 29.10.2002
News Release Canada's mining industry strikes gold - in the taxpayers' wallet: Federal taxpayers spend $13,000 for each mining job 29.10.2002
News Release Environmental groups urge strong and immediate action on abandoned mines, contaminated sites in wake of new report 22.10.2002
News Release World Bank Rejects Controversial Gold Mine Project - Community Leaders Call on Government and Private Lenders to Oppose Rosia Montana Mining Project 10.10.2002
News Release Canadian Potash Company Faces Constitutional Hurdles, Community Opposition in Thailand 24.09.2002
News Release Planet in Focus: Toronto International Environmental Film & Video Festival Coming in September 14.08.2002
News Release Fatality at Troubled Kumtor Gold Mine -- Kyrgyz and International NGOs Renew Call for Independent Environmental/Safety Audit; Coalition to Assemble Audit Team 10.07.2002
News Release NGOs Shine Spotlight on Mining Industry Abuses: Call for An End to Business As Usual in the Mining Sector - New Website, Report 24.05.2002
News Release Tanzanian Environmental Activists Persecuted for Speaking Out Against World Bank Group Gold Mine 10.05.2002
News Release Feds Fall Short on New Regulations to Protect Water from Mine Toxins – Proposed New Metal Mine Effluent Regulations Finally Published 24.08.2001
News Release Sudbury Workshop on Abandoned Mines Co-sponsored by Assembly of First Nations 20.07.2001
News Release "The Ocean is not for Tailings" - Indonesian Conference Opposes Threat to Tropical Oceans 20.07.2001
News Release The "Toxic Thirteen" - Sierra Club of Canada and MiningWatch Canada Call For a Federal Contaminated Sites Program 20.07.2001
News Release Environmental Advisory Committee Chair Quits Over River Pollution at Placer Dome's Porgera Mine in Papua New Guinea 15.06.2001
News Release One Year After Romanian Cyanide Spill, New Report Exposes Shortcomings in Industry-Government Disaster Response 30.01.2001
News Release Federal Timidity on Tough Regulations to Limit Mine Pollution Places Communities, Environment at Risk 25.05.2000
News Release World Bank Calls for Ok Tedi Mine Closure Following Romanian Cyanide Spill - Message to BHP: Clean Up Ok Tedi; Message to Mining Industry: Stop Dumping in Rivers 07.03.2000
News Release Canadian Gold Mining Interests Involved in Police Shootings in Ghana, West Africa 30.12.1999
News Release MiningWatch Responds to Request for Help from Philippines — TVI repressing Subanen people 27.10.1999
News Release Taxpayers to Pay for Clean-Up at Northern Mines: MiningWatch Canada and Regional Organizations Call for Preventive Measures 02.09.1999
News Release One of World's Worst Mine Disasters Gets Worse – BHP Admits Massive Environmental Damage at Ok Tedi Mine in Papua New Guinea, Says Mine Should Never Have Opened 11.08.1999
News Release HudBay Operations in Peru and Guatemala: Violence and Repression Found to Result from Mining Company Contracts with State Security Forces 28.11.2019