ROSSLAND, B.C. — The Save Record Ridge Action Committee (SRRAC), a Rossland area community group, submitted additional expert evidence regarding the proposed Record Ridge mine to the B.C. government last week. The permitting process is now in its final stages, with a Ministry of Mining and Critical Minerals (MCM) decision expected this month.

Panama City, October 13, 2025. The Environmental Advocacy Center (CIAM) rejects the smear campaign against our organization by actors who support the reopening of the mining project and reaffirms its commitment to defending truth, public participation, and sustainable development. 

Stefan Labbé, Business in Vancouver

Critics accuse Ecuador's president of a conflict of interest due to his family's investments in a Canadian mining firm that could be shielded by a pending Canada-Ecuador free trade agreement.

(Toronto/Quito) While shareholders gather in Vancouver, Canada, for Silvercorp Metals Inc.’s Annual General Meeting (AGM), Ecuador is experiencing widespread unrest. Tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets and blocked highways in a nationwide strike led by the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE) and other allied civil society groups.

San Salvador – On September 24, the presiding tribunal in San Vicente, El Salvador found five prominent water defenders from Santa Marta, Miguel Ángel Gámez, Alejandro Laínez García, Pedro Antonio Rivas Laínez, Antonio Pacheco, and Saúl Agustín Rivas Ortega, innocent of charges of murder, kidnapping, and illicit association. 

ROSSLAND, B.C. — The Save Record Ridge Action Committee (SRRAC) has filed a petition for judicial review in B.C. Supreme Court, challenging an Environmental Assessment Office (EAO) decision not to require an environmental assessment (EA) for the proposed Record Ridge magnesium mine.

(Ottawa) Today, two delegates from the Xinka Parliament of Guatemala held a press conference on Parliament Hill calling on the Canadian government and Vancouver-based mining company Pan American Silver to respect the Xinka People’s decision to seek the permanent closure of the Escobal mine in accord with their rights to self-determination under the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigen

On September 16, thousands of people in the canton of Cuenca in Southern Ecuador’s Azuay Province took to the streets in one of the biggest marches in the recent history of Ecuador, to demand an end to industrial mining in the high altitude paramo de Kimsakocha, a crucial water source for the communities throughout the region. 

Neskantaga First Nation is rejecting the coordinated announcements made this week by Ontario and Canada to fast-track Ring of Fire mining development and road building. The provincial and federal governments are both working to advance these destructive projects while ignoring the devastating social and health crises facing First Nations communities, including Neskantaga.