Proposed tailings dam expansion would become world’s second largest yet doesn’t automatically require environmental assessment

səl̓ílwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam) and Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) Territories (Vancouver, B.C.) – Today twenty-two organizations sent a letter to Environment and Climate Change Minister George Heyman, calling on him to require an environmental assessment for the Copper Mountain Mine expansion. Copper Mountain Mine, located south of Princeton, B.C.

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Wilderness Committee + 21 organizations

Illegal Mining Claims Discovered Inside Protected Area of Nopiming Provincial Park, Manitoba

(Winnipeg/Treaty 1 Territory and Homeland of the Métis Nation) Last week the Wilderness Committee discovered new mining claims in a protected area inside Nopiming Provincial Park, on the popular Seagrims Lake Chain canoe route. The mining claims were staked on July 29, mere days after the misguided new critical minerals strategy was released by the Manitoba government.

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Wilderness Committee
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Many Manitoba parks are open to mining. Now an industry group wants to ‘suspend all protected areas’

Less than a quarter of Manitoba’s parks are protected from industry. As companies race to dig up minerals deemed critical to a low-carbon economy, exploration for new mines is ramping up in provincial parks

Written by Julia-Simone Rutgers, The Narwhal

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The Narwhal

Mining companies are abusing a little-known loophole to avoid cleanup

Miners across Canada are using a legally undefined status known as ‘care and maintenance’ to dodge responsibility for environmental liabilities

Written by Nick Gottlieb, The Breach

Imagine you own a coal mine in British Columbia. (Yes, governments in Canada are still approving new coal mines.)

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The Breach

Barrick’s Major Mine Expansion in the Dominican Republic Brings Extreme and Unreported Risks, says Safety Expert

Photo: A house in the community of El Naranjo in the Dominican Republic, metres away from the existing area for mine waste at Barrick Gold’s Pueblo Viejo mine. Source: Catherine Coumans, MiningWatch Canada

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MiningWatch Canada – Comité Nuevo Renacer – the National Space for Transparency in the Extractive Industry (ENTRE)

Ecuadorian Court Suspends Dundee Precious Metals' Operations

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A local court in southern Ecuador has ordered Dundee Precious Metals to suspend its mining operations in the páramo de Kimsakocha, upholding the rights of local communities and dealing another blow to Canadian mining interests in the region. 

Amazon Watch Launches Report "Unmasking Canada: Rights Violations Across Latin America"

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.

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Amazon Watch

International Mission Urges Colombia to Withdraw from 'ISDS' System of Corporate Abuse and Impunity

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

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Stop ISDS - International Mission to Colombia
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