Still No Justice for Marinduque’s Mining Victims

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Twenty-four years after a catastrophic mine waste disaster on the small Philippine island of Marinduque filled a 26-kilometre river with mine tailings from the mountainous mine site to the sea, Marinduqueños still seek compensation for this disaster from Canadian mining giant Barrick Gold.

The 55,000 residents of the town of Boac, many of whom lost homes, rice fields, animals, and the use of the Boac River for food security and their livelihoods, continue to suffer from acidification and high metal levels in the river that has yet to be remediated. 

Canadian Mining Companies in Argentine Patagonia: 'Go Home and Stay Home!'

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Seventeen years after the Esquel referendum (March 23, 2003), funding dirty metal extraction projects seems further away than ever.

Author: Luis Manuel Claps

Miners at Barrick Gold Project in Argentina Demand To Be Sent Home for Fear of Coronavirus Outbreak at Isolated Mining Camp

The hygiene here in the camp is intolerable – we don’t have toilet paper, we don’t have hand sanitizer, we don’t even have soap to wash our hands; we are terrified of catching it [coronavirus].

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MiningWatch Canada

Amazonian Indigenous Peoples Condemn Attempts to Forge Support for Ecuador Mining Project at Toronto Conference

(Ottawa, Quito) Last Friday, the Indigenous Pueblo Shuar Arutam government (PSHA) released a public statement condemning a Canadian company Solaris Resources, owner of the Warintza copper-molybdenum project, and the Ecuadorian government for using unelected representatives of the Shuar peoples in Canada to misrepresent the project as enjoying the support of the Shuar.

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Amazon Watch – MiningWatch Canada

Indigenous women mark Women's Day with protest dance against mining

More than 100 indigenous women and women's rights advocates in Brgy. Didipio in Kasibu town dance the Tayaw to protest the mining operations of OceanaGold Philippines 

Mavic Conde 

Published 2:00 PM, March 07, 2020 

Updated 2:02 PM, March 07, 2020 

ALBAY, Philippines – "Tayaw," a traditional dance of the Tuwali tribe in Nueva Vizcaya, is about unity and the power to face threats against a community.

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Rappler

Groups Oppose Repressive Chilean Government Seeking Increased Canadian Mining Investment at PDAC

(Toronto) A noisy crowd came together today at the most important event of the mining sector, the Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada (PDAC). The rally called out the Chilean government’s participation in the event – seeking to further increase mining investment despite the devastating waves of protest and violent repression that have rocked the country for months, and a deepening ecological crisis in the country, in which the mining industry plays an important role.

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Common Frontiers – CDHAL – MiningWatch Canada

Bankruptcy Court Informed of Misleading Information in Mining Company Lydian’s Affidavit

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[Guest blog by the Armenian Environmental Front] On February 28, members of the Armenian Environmental Front addressed a letter to Honorable Geoffrey B. Morawetz, Chief Justice of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, Commercial List, specialized in insolvency cases, who presides over Lydian Group’s insolvency protection court proceedings. The letter was copied to Alvarez & Marsal, Inc. the appointed “monitor” under the “Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act”.

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New Map by Environmental Justice Atlas Reveals Patterns of Abuse at Canadian Company Pan American Silver’s Mines in Latin America

As Canada’s mining enterprises meet in Toronto, promising a path ‘from poverty to prosperity,” civil society groups launched a map revealing one company’s devastating impact on region stretching from Mexico to southern tip of Argentina.

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Environmental Justice Atlas – MiningWatch Canada

Hundreds Block Entrances, Surround World’s Largest Mining Convention

(Toronto/Tkaronto) Hundreds of people have blocked all entrances to the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, where the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) is holding its annual convention. Endorsed by 50 organizations, the protest promotion invited Torontonians to join them to “stand up to the extractive industry's violence, ongoing colonization, and complete disregard for the future of life on this planet.”

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Mining Injustice Solidarity Network (MISN)
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