(Ottawa, December 9, 2015) Based on the Ontario Auditor General’s report, released last week, MiningWatch Canada is alarmed by the rapidly growing environmental liability of mine sites in Ontario.
(Guatemala City/Ottawa/Tatamagouche) On Monday, plaintiffs in the criminal case against Tahoe Resources’ former security manager, Alberto Rotondo, were informed that he had escaped police custody. Rotondo is accused of having ordered private security guards to attack peaceful protestors outside the Escobal mine in southeastern Guatemala on April 27, 2013, wounding seven men.
(Tuesday November 17, 2015. Oxford/Ottawa). A second human rights field assessment at Barrick Gold’s Tanzania subsidiary, Acacia Mining[1] (formerly African Barrick Gold), calls into question commitments made by the company to stop excessive use of force by mine security and police guarding the mine.
(Ottawa/Oakland/Tatamagouche) Canadian and US organizations are calling a British Columbia judge’s refusal to hear a lawsuit against Tahoe Resources over violence at its Guatemala mine site wilfully blind to the gravity of the case and the obstacles faced by the victims in bringing a transnational corporation to justice.
News release: A new report reveals the dramatic extent of the militarized security strategy that Canadian-US mining company Tahoe Resources developed to quash community opposition to its Escobal project in southeastern Guatemala. In ‘Under Siege: Peaceful Resistance to Tahoe Resources and Militarization in Guatemala’, Guatemalan investigative journalist Luis Solano untangles the web of relationships and tactics that led to the militarization of farming communities in the area of the company’s operations.
(Toronto, 9 November 2015) In response to last week’s alarming report from Ontario’s acting Environmental Commissioner, Ellen Schwartzel, MiningWatch Canada & Ontarians for a Just Accountable Mineral Strategy (OJAMS) are urging Premier Kathleen Wynne and her government to reform current water-user fees and environmental assurance requirements for mine site clean-up in Ontario.
(Ottawa) Seventeen international Indigenous, solidarity and human rights organizations are calling for an investigation into Mexican state involvement in violence against the Nahua Indigenous community of Zacualpan, Colima, which has been defending its territory and water sources from proposed mining activities.
Canadian mining major Teck Resources is also being asked to explain its apparent involvement.
(Singapore, November 5, 2015) Civil society organisations from across the globe are highly critical of an international oceans conference to be held in Singapore next week. Misnamed the Sustainable Ocean Summit, the conference is touted as providing a platform to advance industry-driven solutions to ocean sustainability challenges.
The Quebec Meilleure Mine coalition is concerned with the recent 3 million dollar loan from Third Eye Capital to the uranium promotion company Strateco to finance its 190 million dollar lawsuit against the Quebec government. Strateco, a junior company on the verge of bankruptcy, is suing the Quebec government for not licensing its controversial Matoush uranium advanced exploration project in James Bay, Quebec.
