This is an excerpt from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives The Monitor, written by Stuart Trew.
Ecuador’s April 21 vote on investor-state dispute settlement could quash mining sector hopes in the looming negotiations
Natasha Bulowski, Canada's National Observer
As the world’s largest mining conference unfolds in Toronto, a Canadian company is facing a complaint about a proposed copper mine in Ecuador.
Natasha Bulowski, Canada's National Observer
A proposed Canada-Ecuador free trade agreement could put corporate interests above citizens’ rights, say several concerned organizations.
OTTAWA/TORONTO – In the midst of parliamentary hearings on a potential Free Trade Agreement between Ecuador and Canada, recently elected Ecuadorian president Daniel Noboa will visit Canada this Monday to attend the world’s largest mining convention.
The Shuar Arutam People (PSHA) filed a complaint against Solaris Resources Inc. (TSX: SLS) before the British Columbia Securities Commission over its failure to continuously disclose material information to shareholders regarding its Warintza mining project which overlaps PSHA’s titled territory. In spite of PSHA's explicit and continuous rejection of the Warintza project, Vancouver-based Solaris has kept moving forward with its mining plans in the Amazon, one of the most biodiverse areas on the planet.
Project could increase territory’s total emissions by upward of 46 per cent, undermining plans to reduce them
Julien Gignac, CBC News
While the cleanup of the abandoned Faro mine could release a "carbon bomb," the project may move ahead but on the condition emissions are offset, according to a new report from the Yukon Environmental and Socio-economic Assessment Board.
And not just some emissions. All of them.
But how?
Indigenous Organizations Unite Against Controversial Amazon Copper Mining Project
On February 13, 2024, at SSR Mining’s Çöpler gold mine in Turkey’s eastern Erzincan province, the hill that the mine’s heap leach pad was built on collapsed, taking with it an estimated 10 million tonnes of cyanide-laced ore, burying nine mineworkers alive and pouring into the valley below and towards the Euphrates River.