Ahead of the United Nations’ Universal periodic review on November 10, 2023, a delegation composed of Indigenous leaders, local communities, and Latin American civil society representatives will travel to Geneva for the UPR pre-session from August 28 to September 1, 2023 to expose the predatory modus operandi of Canada’s extractive sectors operating in Latin American and the Caribbean.

Today, August 15, the International Mission to #StopISDS launched its final report (in English and Spanish), rejecting how transnational corporations are suing Colombia for billions of dollars and calling on Gustavo Petro’s administration to withdraw from this unfair system of foreign investm

Living a stone’s throw from Barrick Gold’s Pueblo Viejo mine, the largest gold mine in Latin America, communities in the Dominican Republic have good reason to be concerned. 

Industry advocates hoping for big investment in 2024 budget. Critics raise alarms about a free-for-all
Chad Pawson · CBC News

Miners in B.C. searching for deposits of minerals deemed critical for low-carbon technologies say they've never been more excited for the sector but require extended provincial support to realize their dreams.

Groups challenge fundamentally flawed document with list of questions government must answer on transparency, local communities, and the environment.

(Winnipeg/Treaty 1 Territory and Homeland of the Métis Nation) Multiple oversights in the development of the Manitoba government’s new Critical Minerals Strategy have forced seven organizations to release an open letter and series of questions, urging a halt in implementing the Strategy until answers have been provi

By: Heather Fast, Jamie Kneen, Eric Reder and Warren Bernauer

Last week, the Government of Manitoba released the Critical Minerals Strategy: Driving Sustainable Growth. For years, Manitoba’s environmental community has been raising the alarm about the short and long-term implications of mining on the environment and the health of mining-adjacent communities.

There is a need for a more thoughtful and detailed strategy that meaningfully addresses the environmental concerns and interests of the public and Indigenous communities.

On July 31, the Assembly of Jáchal No Se Toca and its allies gathered outside a Federal Court and the Ministry of the Environment in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to demand the advancement of a trial for a 2015 spill that has been called “the worst environmental disaster caused by mining in Argentina’s history.” 

Government documents reveal Ontario was warned five years ago that scant regulations around the dams that contain mine tailings — a slurry of water, rock and chemicals — mean a disastrous spill is largely out of its hands

By Emma McIntosh, The Narwhal

Countries meeting in Jamaica this month to hammer out mining code

By Susan Ormiston and Carly Thomas, CBC News

Gerard Barron, the CEO and chairman of The Metals Company, pulls a fist-sized black rock out of his pocket and displays it proudly in his hand.