Voices from the Ground: How the Global Mining Industry is Profiting from the COVID-19 Pandemic

This report provides in-depth cases to exemplify the four trends highlighted in the international open letter “Global Solidarity with Communities, Indigenous Peoples and Workers at risk from Mining Pandemic Profiteers”. These trends pose an immediate threat to the health and safety of communities and organizations that have been struggling to defend public health and their environments against the destruction and devastation of mining extractivism for decades, as well as to the safety of workers in the mining sector.

New Report: Canadian Mining Companies Profiting from COVID-19 Pandemic, Putting Communities and Workers at Risk

A new report from MiningWatch Canada and a consortium of international organisations reveals how, in the face of the global COVID-19 pandemic, the mining industry has been declared ‘essential’ in many countries worldwide and allowed to operate amid government lockdowns, with devastating results for communities and mineworkers. The analysis draws from field reports and a review of nearly 500 media, company, and civil society statements, 180 of which are directly related to community and/or workers’ concerns.

Support Chile’s “First Territory Free of Mining” – Send a Message to the Canadian Ambassador to Chile

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On April 20, in the middle of the COVID-19 crisis and a terrible drought, the Environmental Evaluation Commission of Valparaíso, Chile, approved Vizcachitas Holding's new drill program in the regional municipality of Putaendo, without citizen participation. Since 2007, Vizcachitas has been owned by a Canadian mining company, Los Andes Copper. The approval of the program will enable the company to continue an exploration project that the company has had underway for more than 10 years.

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Put People First, Demand Over 150 Canadian Organizations with the Launch of Six Principles for a Just Recovery

As governments prepare recovery plans amidst the COVID-19 crisis, an informal alliance of over 150 civil society groups, representing collective memberships of millions in Canada, are demanding these plans move us toward a more equitable and sustainable future, with the release, today, of six Principles for a Just Recovery.

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Just Recovery for All

Community and Worker Health and Well-being Not On Agenda at HudBay Minerals AGM

(Cusco/Ottawa/Toronto) Today, Canadian company, HudBay Minerals held its Annual General Meeting for shareholders virtually, to discuss its financial health and the future for its current and potential operations.

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Derechos Humanos Sin Fronteras (Cusco) - MiningWatch Canada - Rights Action

Wilderness Committee Discovers Illegal Mining Claim in Nopiming Provincial Park

Former mines branch director staked claims in an area protected for boreal woodland caribou

WINNIPEG – The Wilderness Committee has discovered a mining claim in Nopiming Provincial Park, within an area where staking claims is not allowed.

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Predicting the Impacts of Mining Deep Sea Polymetallic Nodules in the Pacific Ocean: A Review of Scientific Literature

This review, from the Deep Sea Mining campaign in collaboration with MiningWatch Canada, represents an analysis of literature addressing the predicted and potential impacts of mining deep sea nodules in the Southwest, Central, and Northeast Pacific. More than 250 scientific and other articles were examined to explore what is known — and what remains unknown — about the risks of nodule mining to Pacific Ocean habitats, species, ecosystems and the people who rely on them. The report details scientifically established risks, including those related to the lack of knowledge surrounding this emerging industry.

New Report Highlights Deep Sea Nodule Mining Danger to Pacific Ocean and Island Nations

A new report analysing over 250 peer reviewed scientific articles finds that the impacts of mining deep sea polymetallic nodules would be extensive, severe, and last for generations, causing essentially irreversible species loss.

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Deep Sea Mining Campaign – MiningWatch Canada
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