Blog Letter to Québec's Environment Minister: Request not to give in to pressure from mining company Falco Resources 12.06.2025
MiningWatch in the News Poilievre says feds are holding up oil, gas and mining projects. Is he right, and could he change that? 23.04.2025
MiningWatch in the News The Rights of Nature Become a Rallying Point Against an Ascendant Mining Industry 06.03.2025
MiningWatch in the News Outraged by Toronto mining convention, demonstrators disrupt opening day proceedings 03.03.2025
Publication Submission to Canadian Ombudsperson for Responsible Enterprise Review Committee 31.10.2024
MiningWatch in the News Ottawa’s revised environmental rules won’t reduce permitting stage, lawyers say 06.05.2024
MiningWatch in the News Ottawa Cedes Authority Over GHG Emissions in Impact Assessment Act Amendments 02.05.2024
Friends of MiningWatch Canada is Assessed at the UN, Receiving Recommendations to Curb Abuse by its Companies and Financial Institutions 25.03.2024
News Release Bloom Lake: Federal Government Urged To Not Rush Any Decision and Demand an Alternative to Save Lakes from Becoming Mine Waste Dumps 21.02.2023
Friends of MiningWatch Communiqué of the collectives and communities of Oaxaca against "Canada-Oaxaca 2021 Indigenous Encounters" 13.10.2021
News Release Environmental Groups In Court To Defend Federal Environmental Law from Attack by Government of Alberta 22.02.2021
News Release Pan American Silver Chairman Set To Speak at AME Roundup on the Importance of “ESG Factors” Days After Armed Attack Against Escobal Mine Opponent in Guatemala 21.01.2021
News Release Investor Alert: Social, Environmental & Financial Risks for Nouveau Monde Graphite 01.03.2020
Blog Canadian Organizations Denounce Federal Government's Ongoing Negotiations for MERCOSUR with Brazil's Extremist Bolsonaro Government 10.06.2019
News Release New Expert Report Finds Canada Carbon Project Uneconomic, $96 Million Damage Claim Against Municipality Unfounded – Complaint Filed with B.C. Securities Commission 22.05.2019
Publication Primer on Mine Water Pollution in Canada: Are Waters & Fish Habitat Protected? 05.04.2019
News Release B.C. Rejects Ajax Mine – Groups Urge Governments to Learn Lessons and Change Laws 15.12.2017
Blog Public Statement on the 10th Anniversary of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples 13.09.2017
News Release Mines Ministers Meeting Falls Short of Meaningful Progress on Environment and Indigenous Rights 18.08.2017
News Release Canadian Energy & Mines Ministers Conference: “No Clean Growth without Clean Mining” 14.08.2017
Friends of MiningWatch A Breach of Human Rights - The Impact of the Mount Polley Mine Disaster, British Columbia 24.05.2017
News Release Expert Panel Report Calls for Broad Changes in Federal Environmental Assessment Law 06.04.2017
News Release Mining Affected First Nations and Citizens Join Efforts in Urging the Quebec Government to Respect Their Rights 21.11.2016
Presentation The Future of Canada’s Mining Sector - Submission To Federal Standing Committee on Natural Resources 01.11.2016
Publication In the National Interest? Criminalization of Land and Environment Defenders in the Americas 21.09.2015
Blog New Study Indicates Increasing Mine Disasters Worldwide - Why is the industry incapable of learning from its biggest mishaps? 07.08.2015
News Release Canadian Mines Ministers Conference in Halifax: Provinces & Territories Must Act To Avoid Mine Waste Disasters 20.07.2015
News Release Stop the Suits Tour: International Investment Agreements Threaten People and the Environment from El Salvador to Canada 05.05.2015
News Release International Delegates from Five Continents Sign Declaration of World Uranium Symposium 22.04.2015
Friends of MiningWatch Sale of Canadian Uranium to India Denounced by International Experts at the World Uranium Symposium 15.04.2015
Blog Copper in Quesnel Lake, One of Many Concerns in Aftermath of Mount Polley Tailings Spill 08.10.2014
Blog Federal Government Ignores First Nations and Public Input on Environmental Assessment – Its Own Legislation Makes It Hard Not To 22.07.2014
News Release First Nations and NGOs Demand Full Disclosure and Government Action on Sherritt's Toxic Coal Mine Spill 18.12.2013
News Release Spilled Coal Slurry Not Inert But Laced with Arsenic, Toxic Metals, and Carcinogenic PAHs 15.11.2013
News Release Taseko Fails On All Counts - Again: Conclusions of “New Prosperity” Review Panel Echo Previous Review 01.11.2013
Blog The Bell Tolls for Free Entry in Canada: Legal Victory for Yukon First Nation Will Have Implications Across the Country 27.09.2013
News Release Taseko's New Prosperity Project Fails on Environment, Human Rights, and Economics 22.08.2013
Blog Cliffs Should Stop Pointing Fingers, Check Its Corporate Ego Before Resuming Work on Ring of Fire 14.06.2013
News Release Imperial Metals Operating Without Consent: First Nations Oppose Mining on Indigenous Lands 29.05.2013
Blog URGENT ACTION: Tell Environment Minister Kent to Listen Up and Respect Algonquin First Nations 24.05.2013
Blog Familiar-sounding Australian Report Reveals Exaggerated Benefits and Underestimated Costs 23.04.2013
News Release Cliffs and Feds Causing Unnecessary Delays to Ring of Fire Court Case, Lose Bid to Exclude Expert Evidence 18.03.2013
Blog Neskonlith Opposition, A Reasonable Response to Imperial Metals' Ruddock Creek Project 22.02.2013
News Release BC’s Mining Sector Needs More Than Slaps on the Back and Market Hype – NGOs Release Mining Reform Top 40 31.01.2013
Friends of MiningWatch Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (KI) Walks to Parliament Hill to Say "No" to Treaty Violations 01.01.2013
Blog Federal Government Balking at First Small Step to Rebuild Environmental Assessment – Improved Regulations 17.12.2012
Blog Taseko Gets an Incomplete: 50 Substantial Deficiencies Found in Environmental Impact Statement 11.12.2012
Friends of MiningWatch Taku River Tlingit Joint Clan Forum Rejects Proposed Tulsequah Chief Project 28.11.2012
Guest Publication No Means No: The Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug and the Fight for Resource Sovereignty 26.11.2012
News Release Keno Residents Want Out - Residents Say Alexco’s Mining Activities Are Compromising Tourism, Causing Health Fears, Threatening Water Supply and Lowering Quality of Life 26.11.2012
Blog Green Mining or Green Washing? Corporate Social Responsibility and the Mining Sector in Canada 17.10.2012
News Release Investor Alert: MiningWatch Report Flags Significant Risks and Uncertainties Associated with Taseko Mines Limited 13.09.2012
News Release Fifth anniversary of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: Urgent action needed to ensure that the human rights of Indigenous peoples aren’t violated by resource development at home and abroad 12.09.2012
Blog Proposed Amendments to the Regulations Designating Physical Activities Under the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act 2012 24.08.2012
Blog ACTION ALERT: Budget Omnibus Bill C-38 Will Shred Canada’s Environmental Assessment Law (Among Many Other Things) 07.06.2012
Blog Shining a Light on the Federal Government’s False Claims on Environmental Assessment and the Budget 01.06.2012
Brief Presentation to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance on Bill C-38, the Budget Implementation Act 01.06.2012
Blog Mining Injustice Conference: Resisting Extractivism, Lessons and Inspiration from Front-line Communities and Fellow Activists 08.05.2012
News Release End of Training Program for Aboriginal People Threatens to Decrease Access to Jobs and Benefits of Mining 27.03.2012
News Release Keno City Residents and Businesses Suffering the Effects of Yukon Mining Boom as Alexco Takes Over the Town 20.03.2012
News Release First Nation and Conservation Groups Seek Investigation of Exploration Company God’s Lake Resources by Securities Regulator 20.03.2012
News Release Parliamentary Environment Committee’s ‘Paint by Numbers’ Report Fails to Produce Credible Review of Canadian Environmental Assessment Act 13.03.2012
News Release From Coast to Coast, Canadian Groups Say Strong, Inclusive Federal Environmental Laws Are Needed 29.02.2012
Publication Troubled Waters: How Mine Waste Dumping is Poisoning Our Oceans, Rivers and Lakes 28.02.2012
News Release Royalties, Environment and Citizens’ Rights: Survey Results Support Demands of Quebec Mining Reform Coalition 27.02.2012
Blog Indigenous Rights and Mining: Submissions to the UN Committe on Elimination of Racial Discrimination 23.02.2012
News Release Federal Government’s Environmental Assessment Agenda Risks Public Health and Safety, Invites Environmental Disaster 20.02.2012
News Release MiningWatch Canada Welcomes Drummond Commission’s Recommendation to Examine Mining Taxes 16.02.2012
News Release Quebec Coalition Appalled by Minister Kent's Approval for Matoush Uranium Exploration Project 06.02.2012
Submissions to the House of Commons Environment Committee on the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act (CEAA) 7-Year Review 06.12.2011
Blog Photographer and Storyteller Robert Del Tredici on the History of Port Radium, Northwest Territories 29.11.2011
News Release Parliamentary Review of Canadian Environmental Assessment Act Abruptly Terminated 29.11.2011
News Release Federal Government Cuts Off Environment Network, Indicates Disturbing Shift Away from Canadians’ Priorities 14.10.2011
News Release No Social Licence and a Long List of Inadequacies, Yet Federal Review Panel Recommends Approval of Matoush Uranium Exploration Project 28.07.2011
News Release Three of Four Federal Parties Would Introduce Measures to Curtail Abuses of Mining Companies - Conservatives Continue to Lag Behind Canadians’ Expectations 12.04.2011
News Release Environmental Organizations Call On Parliament to Extend Debate on Environmental Bill of Rights 02.02.2011
News Release Green Budget Coalition Releases Self-Financing Recommendations for 2011 Federal Budget 25.11.2010
News Release Incomplete Reporting Still Reveals Mining Companies' Toxic Threat: Environmental groups worry some of Canada's mines are dragging feet on federal order to report toxic mining waste 10.08.2010
News Release Tsilhqot'in National Government: AFN Chiefs Pledge to Help Defend Lands Against Proposed Prosperity Mine 22.07.2010
Blog Federal Government Moves Quickly to Bypass Supreme Court Ruling, Undermine Environmental Assessment 18.07.2010
News Release MiningWatch Canada Applauds the Senate’s Sober Second Thought to Protect Environmental Assessment in Canada 08.07.2010
Brief Submission to the Senate Finance Committee Regarding Bill C-9, the Budget Implementation Act 06.07.2010
News Release Supreme Court of Canada Gives Public a Voice on Major Industrial Projects – Court Ensures Meaningful Environmental Assessments Across Country 21.01.2010
News Release Innu, Doctors, Elected Officials, Local Residents Oppose Uranium Exploration on North Shore of Quebec 11.12.2009
Publication Boreal Forest’s Wildlife and Communities Threatened by Impacts from Exploration, Mining – Revised 'Boreal Below' Report 12.05.2008
News Release Lawsuit exposes Canada’s toxic tailings secret: Groups say feds flouting law, hiding mining pollution from public 07.11.2007
Guest Publication More Precious Than Gold: Mineral Development and the Protection of Biological Diversity in Canada 23.03.2006
News Release Annual Day for Industry to Mine Canadians’ Pockets: Mining Association of Canada Takes to the Hill Amidst Growing Criticism 22.11.2005
Publication Looking Beneath the Surface: An Assessment of the Value of Public Support for the Metal Mining Industry in Canada 29.10.2002
News Release Canada's mining industry strikes gold - in the taxpayers' wallet: Federal taxpayers spend $13,000 for each mining job 29.10.2002
Publication The Boreal Below: Mining Issues and Activities in Canada’s Boreal Forest Region 25.09.2002
Publication On the Ground Research: A Workshop to Identify the Research Needs of Communities Affected by Large-Scale Mining 01.09.2000
Publication Mining's Toxic Orphans: A Plan for Action on Federal Contaminated and Unsafe Mine Sites 11.01.2000