Environmental advocate: ‘No investor should even think of touching this company’
By Marisa Coulton, Financial Post
A Canadian gold miner has found itself under attack by a powerful environmental group seeking to starve it of investment dollars in an attempt to block it from building what would be the largest open pit mine in Brazil.
By Owen Schalk, Canadian Dimension
Any changes that come out of COP15 are only meaningful if they respect Indigenous rights everywhere in Canada
By Christopher Bonasia, The Energy Mix
A mining watchdog says calls for less robust assessments and quicker permitting in Canada’s new critical minerals strategy will undo protections for environmental and Indigenous rights, which are being threatened across the globe in the rush for critical minerals.
(Toronto, Ottawa) Even as Canada plays host to the world’s biggest biodiversity conference at COP15 this month, a new report reveals that Canada still prioritizes mining interests at the expense of human rights and environment defenders.
By Teilor Stone, The Saxon, with information from Camille Lacroix
The Government of Canada unveiled its strategy on Friday critical minerals which tends in particular to accelerate the development of projects in this sector of activity. At the first reading of this strategy, reactions are divergent on the North Shore.
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By Alex Ballingall, Toronto Star
OTTAWA—The federal government has unveiled an ambitious road map to make Canada a critical minerals powerhouse, describing a “generational opportunity” to spur economic growth, fight climate change and advance global security and Indigenous reconciliation — all at the same time.
By David Thurton, CBC News
Canada will need to speed up regulatory decisions on critical mineral projects if it wants to become a global leader in battery manufacturing, electric vehicles, wind turbines and solar panels, says a new national strategy released today.
"Simply put, there is no green energy transition without critical minerals," Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson said as he unveiled the strategy in Vancouver on Friday.
By John Woodside, Canada's National Observer
Both of those challenges exist in places like Ontario’s “Ring of Fire,” a mineral-rich area of environmentally sensitive peatlands where some First Nations have concerns about potential mining development, Wilkinson said.
“Both of those issues have to be addressed in any agreement that mining in the Ring of Fire is going to proceed,” he said.
A comprehensive industrial strategy is badly needed to help confront the multiple crises Canada – and all humankind – is up against: climate, biodiversity, water, pollution, inequality, migration, and more. Unfortunately, the new federal "critical minerals" strategy is not it. It's basically is an adaptation of business as usual, and if anything, promises to accelerate the literal bulldozing of Indigenous rights.