Chiefs Prepare Eviction Notice to Mining Companies Working in the Ring of Fire

News release: Six Northern Ontario First Nations who will be affected by the proposed mines and infrastructure development in the Ring of Fire are in the final stages of issuing a 30-day eviction notice to all mining companies with exploration and development camps in the region.

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Aroland First Nation – Constance Lake First Nation – Ginoogaming First Nation – Longlake #58 First Nation – Neskantaga First Nation – Nibinamik First Nation

Nautilus Seabed Mining Experiment Falters: Dispute with PNG Government, Opposition by Pacific and Canadian Citizens, Financing Woes

News release: Today Canadians are standing in solidarity with civil society in the Pacific against deep sea mining. Nautilus Inc. is leading the rush to mine the sea floor in the Pacific. If it goes ahead, its Solwara 1 project in the Bismark Sea off Papua New Guinea will be the world’s first commercial deep sea mine.

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Mas Kagin Tapani – East New Britain Social Action Committee – Deep Sea Mining Campaign – MiningWatch Canada
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Mining Development a Sneak Attack on Public Lands, Waters: San Gold Corporation Starting New Toxic Tailings Pond Near Wanipigow River Before Environmental Licence Issued

News release: (Winnipeg) The Wilderness Committee is calling out San Gold Corporation, Manitoba Conservation, and the Manitoba Mines Branch for sneaking ahead with  the development of a new tailings pond near Bissett, Manitoba before the public consultations were concluded and an environmental licence issued.

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The Wilderness Committee

“I Thought They Were Shareholders.” My First Look at a Hearing with the CNSC, Our Nuclear Watchdog

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I spent the early part of this week in Mistissini, the largest Cree community in Eeyou Istchee, the Cree Territory of northern Quebec, particpating in a two-day licencing hearing held by the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC). The hearing was part of the CNSC’s decision process for the licencing of the Matoush Project, a proposed advanced uranium exploration project (i.e. test mine) that is being developed by Strateco Resources.

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ACTION ALERT: Budget Omnibus Bill C-38 Will Shred Canada’s Environmental Assessment Law (Among Many Other Things)

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The Harper Government has introduced an Omnibus Budget Implementation Bill, C-38, which will actually repeal the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act and replace it with a crude hand-drawn facsimile of a real federal environmental assessment process. Tell the Conservatives that Canada’s environment matters – and environmental laws matter. Tell them we won’t accept shoddy “streamlined” public reviews and destructive megaprojects – even if they change the law to allow them to proceed.

MiningWatch Welcomes Cree Call for Uranium Moratorium

News release: Chief Richard Shecapio of the Mistissini Cree called on the Nuclear Safety Commission to turn down Strateco Resources’ request for a licence to construct a test mine and called for a moratorium on all uranium projects in the Cree territory of Eeyou Istchee and across Quebec, saying Mistissini will do ‘whatever it takes’ to interrupt this project and stop uranium mining in the region.

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MiningWatch Canada to Oppose Licencing of Strateco’s Matoush Uranium Project at Hearings in Mistissini

News release: MiningWatch’s Canada Program Coordinator, Ramsey Hart is on his way to Mistissini, Eeyou Istchee (the Cree Territory in the James Bay Region of northern Quebec) to participate in a community event and speak at the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission’s  (CNSC) licensing hearing for the Matoush Advanced Exploration Uranium Project.

Canadian Human Rights Report on Colombia a ‘Sick Joke’

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The Canadian government’s human rights report tabled in Parliament Tuesday regarding implementation of the Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement might as well have been a comic strip of three monkeys: “see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.”

Ontario Could Get Burned by Flawed Ring of Fire Process

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Ottawa, May 9, 2012. In paired press releases the Ontario Government and U.S. mining company Cliffs Natural Resources today announced plans to proceed with the next step in the development of a chromite deposit in the area dubbed the “Ring of Fire”. The remote area of northern Ontario and the various access routes to it are in the traditional territories of several Ojibway, Oji-Cree, and Cree First Nations.

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