A B.C.-based company is looking to unleash a new era of resource extraction, raising questions over how to protect the planet's deep-sea ecosystems we know the least about. Stefan Labbé reports for North Shore News.
A House of Commons committee is studying links between resource extraction and violence against Indigenous women and girls in Canada.
The Standing Committee on the Status of Women, made up of Liberal, Conservative and New Democratic MPs, announced the study in April in response to calls to justice from the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.
Community members maintain they were not properly consulted by Solaris, and that the company’s model of dialogue has in fact displaced their ancestral governance systems. Meanwhile Canada’s government is chipping in by helping develop a licensing system in the country that could expand mining even more. Solaris appears to have fully exported the Canadian reconciliation model: a new rhetorical and tactical embrace of Indigenous peoples, covering for the same old resource pillage. Ana Cristina Alvarado reports for The Breach.
"By participating in the national strike, the communities who are resisting mining are expressing their rejection and indignation against all attempts to silence their reality. They denounce that around 15% of national lands are subject to mining concessions, and that more than 3 million hectares will be explored for metal mining – of which approximately 400,000 hectares are in Indigenous territories." -- A translated statement by Acción Ecológica in Ecuador, in light of the national strikes. See the original statement in Spanish.
(Ottawa/Montreal/Manila/Boac) Legal proceedings initiated in the Philippines in 2001 finally brought a measure of justice to thirty plaintiffs from two villages on the Island of Marinduque on May 16, 2022.
Trevali Mining Corp. says it has recovered the bodies of the final two of eight workers killed after its Perkoa Mine in Burkina Faso flooded following heavy rainfall on Apr. 16. MiningWatch Canada, an Ottawa-based industry watchdog, has questioned how well the company was prepared for disaster and criticized the federal government's lack of regulations on how Canadian mining companies operate internationally.
(Montreal/Saint-Michel-des-Saints) With the support of environmental organizations, citizens announced the beginning of an independent environmental monitoring of Nouveau Monde Graphite’s (NMG-Pallinghurst) Matawinie project, which targets the battery market. They are making the announcement today as they attend the company’s annual shareholder meeting.
Representatives from communities impacted by mining projects in Colombia, the Philippines, Nunavut and the “Ring of Fire” region in Northern Ontario protested Monday outside the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada’s annual conference, a large event that attracts more than 1,000 exhibitors, 2,500 investors and 23,000 attendees. Isabel Inclan writes for New Canadian Media.
(Ottawa) On Monday June 12, PT Tambang Mas Sangihe brought mining equipment onto Sangihe Island through Pananaru Port and started to move the equipment towards its mine development site. As soon as Sangihe Islanders became aware of the company’s efforts to advance its operations, they blockaded the road to the mine site. These villagers are now unnecessarily at risk of violence in potential efforts to remove them on behalf of the company.
