The Metals Company Under Huge Financial Pressure
Significant cracks are showing in The Metals Company's (TMC) financial stability following their recent investor update.
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Deep Sea Mining Campaign
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A Canadian Corporation is Poisoning My Argentinian Community
We, the people of Jáchal, are fighting for the right to safe and clean water.
Opinion written by Saúl Zeballos, a member of the Asamblea Jáchal No Se Toca in Argentina. Originally published on Earth Island Journal on March 7, 2024.
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Asamblea Jáchal No Se Toca
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Attempt to Advance Environmental Consultation for Atico’s Mine in Ecuador Brings Renewed Criminalization, Police Repression, and Militarization
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Ecuadorian and international human rights organizations are denouncing renewed violence over the past three weeks around Atico Mining’s project in southwestern Ecuador.
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Canada is Assessed at the UN, Receiving Recommendations to Curb Abuse by its Companies and Financial Institutions
We demand from Canada truth, reparations, and justice for traditional communities and Indigenous peoples affected by the impact of mining and oil activities in Latin America.
(Geneva) In the framework of the 4th cycle of Canada's Universal Periodic Review (UPR), more than 50 Latin American organizations and social movements prepared three reports highlighting corporate abuses perpetrated by 37 Canadian projects in 9 countries in our region.
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Amazon Watch et al.
Nine Prominent International Organizations Call on Salvadoran Attorney General to Drop All Charges against Five Water Defenders
One year after their arrest on politically motivated charges, five prominent Salvadoran water defenders are scheduled to stand trial starting on April 3.
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Institute for Policy Studies
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Webinar | What’s at stake in Canada’s trade negotiations with Ecuador?
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April 4, 2024 at 2PM ET | Register here | Facebook
This is a bilingual event in Spanish and English. Simultaneous interpretation will be provided.
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Indigenous and Campesino Organizations in Ecuador Denounce Criminalization in Mining-Affected Area
Read the original statement in Spanish here.
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CONAIE - Movimiento Indígena y Campesino de Cotopaxi - Frente Nacional Antiminero
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Gold mine with history of contaminating B.C. creek fined $276K
Barkerville Gold Mines' penalty reduced in part because of COVID restrictions on business: report
Betsy Trumpener, CBC News
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CBC News
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Webinar: Life in the Triangle of Death - Dominican communities talk mining
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March 20, 2024 at 3PM EST
Metallic mining exploitation in the Dominican Republic is located in the heart of the country, in the provinces of La Vega, Monseñor Nouel and Sánchez Ramírez, which is also the centre for water sources and biodiversity. An area where life could thrive is turning into a ‘triangle of death'. Extractivism has had a significant negative social and environmental footprint in the region causing irreversible environmental damage to the environment as well dispossession of local communities.
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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
The following is a translation of a statement made by the International Mission to #StopISDS. See the original statement in Spanish here.
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International Mission #StopISDS
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