On Wednesday, the Guatemalan Constitutional Court published a resolution and held a press conference calling for more evidence to be presented as part of the legal process that has temporarily suspended two of Tahoe Resources’ mine licences since July.
The following communiqué from the Shuar Indigenous organization Pueblo Shuar Arutam was presented at a press conference in Quito on Wednesday in response to the presence of Mr. Elvis Nantip, President of the Interprovincial Shuar Federation (FISCH by its initials in Spanish) at the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada event in Toronto on Monday.
Many other Indigenous, environmental and human rights organizations in Ecuador have also joined onto this statement, as listed further below.
MiningWatch Canada and Coalition Québec Meilleure Mine denounce a $96 million suit by junior mining company Canada Carbon against Grenville-sur-la-Rouge (pop. 2,800), a small municipality attempting to protect its citizens and its environment from open pit mining. The community, located between Montebello and Lachute at the confluence of the Calumet and the Ottawa rivers, has been opposing the project for the last two years and, in November 2017, elected a new Mayor and Council to reflect more effectively this opposition.
A petition filed with public sector integrity commissioner alleges diplomats at the Canadian embassy in Mexico City intervened on behalf of Calgary mining company implicated in the murder of activist Mariano Abarca
(Ottawa) A report released today by MiningWatch Canada examines the track record of Vancouver-based international mining corporation Hunter Dickinson Inc.
This report examines the Hunter Dickinson family of companies, their track records and current situations, and the implications for the prospects of Northern Dynasty Mining, the company promoting the controversial Pebble mine project in Alaska’s sensitive Bristol Bay. The report labels Northern Dynasty as a highly risky speculative investment, calling its risk levels “unprecedented even among other junior mining companies.”
This article appeared in the Toronto Globe and Mail's special "mining investment" supplement ahead of the 2018 Prospectors and Developers Assiciation of Canada convention. Ugo Lapointe is quoted and Catherine Coumans is also quoted, including this: "What we really need is regulatory change and policy change that will allow us to hold parent companies in Canada to account for what their subsidiaries overseas are doing."
It has been seven months that operations at Tahoe Resources’ Escobal mine have been suspended and, once again, residents are speaking out about what they perceive as a further attempt on the part of the company and its supporters to provoke conflict, delegitimize their right to peaceful and lawful protest, and undermine the independence of a
This recent blog (below) from our friends and partners at West Coast Environmental Law (WCEL) sums it up well. MiningWatch Canada and a team of lawyers supported by WCEL's Environmental Dispute Resolution Fund program helped Bev Sellars to file those private charges on August 4, 2017, for violations of BC laws. Unfortunately, BC has a policy which, in practice, never allows private prosecutions to go forward. This needs to change.
Your support is needed in response to the dire situation facing Hondurans in the aftermath of national elections in late November that have been widely-denounced given evidence of electoral fraud and a campaign of state violence against hundreds of protests across the country since. Activist Edwin Espinal is one of over twenty political prisoners being held in a maximum security prison where he could spend years before ever seeing a judge.
