Jamie Kneen

National Program Co-Lead

Blog Entries

International Allies Applaud the Acquittal of the Five Unjustly Jailed Water Defenders in El Salvador
Quebec won’t fund graphite mine project tied to Pentagon; locals claim ‘victory’
A Bad Deal for Canada: Mining giant Glencore’s Canadian expansion threatens climate and communities
New Report Sounds Alarm Over Sale of Teck Resources’ B.C. Coal Mines to Glencore
Organizations Ask Canadian Embassy to Uphold Human Rights Commitments in Panama
Recent spill stirs speculation about future of Yukon mine
Quebec town leaders, residents unite to decide fate of mine with ties to Pentagon
Victoria Gold Eagle Mine Landslide: YCS Urges Rigorous Monitoring and Accountability
Ecuadorian Indigenous Organizations Deny Agreement with Solaris Resources Ahead of AGM
Environmental Experts Raise Alarm over Weakening of Impact Assessment Act
Canada Turns Its Back on Mining Tragedy in Turkey
It's never been more important to find a mining waste fix
BC Lags on Key Commitment as Environmental Assessment Act Turns Five Years Old
Wells residents already experiencing negative impacts just days after mine approval
Former B.C. mining exec fined $30K for environmental violations — but First Nation says damage costs far more
Tiny Town Fights to Change Mine Plan to Preserve Tourism, Culture and Natural Beauty
Proposed tailings dam expansion would become world’s second largest yet doesn’t automatically require environmental assessment
Illegal Mining Claims Discovered Inside Protected Area of Nopiming Provincial Park, Manitoba
Comment on the Draft Assessment Report for the Cariboo Gold Project
Manitoba’s Misguided “Critical Minerals Strategy” Sparks Open Letter, Demand for Answers
Critical Concerns about Manitoba’s Minerals Strategy
Despite Clear Environmental Risks, B.C. Refuses to Require Improved Water Monitoring at Closed Ajax Mine
Mineral Extraction, Renewable Energy and the Climate Emergency
Submission to the Environmental Registry of Ontario re: Bill G71, the Building More Mines Act, 2023
More, Worse Mining: Ontario's Proposed Building More Mines Act
Lawyer says First Nations will fight Ontario government's proposed mining changes
Book Review – "I Will Live for Both of Us"
Canadian company ‘misleading’ its investors in bid to build Brazil’s biggest open-pit gold mine in the Amazon, activists say
How Critical Are Your Minerals? New Federal Strategy Doesn't Look Very New
Freeland Decries ‘Curse of Oil’, Urges Tighter Economic Ties Among Allies
Lab-grown diamonds offer lower-cost, environmentally sustainable sparkle
COP27: Over 200 organisations call on UNFCCC Secretariat & State parties to put human rights at the centre of climate action
In Memory of Sue Moodie
The Past and Present of Mining – Project Censored Radio with Jamie Kneen
South Africa Tailings Tragedy Shows Need for Stronger Regulation and Effective Enforcement
The Metals Company: From Riches to Rags… to Penny Stocks?
MPs study resource extraction and violence against Indigenous women
'Rapid development' of mines 'urgently required' – Canada's resources minister
Barrick facing new allegations of contamination near Veladero mine in Argentina
Shopify finds conflict minerals in its third-party manufactured components
Tailings dam ruptures still happen even with industry standards, say critics
World Social Forum 2022 Workshop “Resistance to mining extractivism in Latin America and Canada: A Global Vision"
Putting the brakes on electric vehicles
Mine Waste Leaves Toxic Legacies in South Africa - And International Launch of Tailings Report
Statement on the Alberta Court of Appeal Ruling on Federal Environmental Assessment Law
Eight miners enter fourth week trapped in flooded Canadian-owned mine in West Africa
Not Yet a World Leader: Environmental Reviews of Metal Mines in British Columbia
Is B.C. Really a World Leader When It Comes to Environmental Reviews of Metal Mines?
There’s little hope Mother Nature can keep up or repair the damage to Quesnel Lake, Polley Lake and Hazeltine Creek
Support First Nations’ Free, Prior and Informed Consent! Restart the Ring of Fire Regional Assessment
Submission to the Marathon Palladium Project Joint Panel Review
Comments on the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada’s Draft Agreement to Conduct a Regional Assessment in the Ring of Fire Area
Bridging the Gap: Towards Best International Standards on Mine Waste Safety in British Columbia
Why Imperial Metals surrendered its mining rights in B.C.’s Skagit headwaters
Deep-sea mining regulator’s latest meeting on rules only muddies the water
MiningWatch Newsletter – Fall/Winter 2021
International Solidarity Statement with 2021 Mariano Abarca Environmental Defence Award Recipient La Sociedad Civil las Abejas de Acteal, Chiapas, Mexico
Virtual Forum: Pillage by Arbitration?
Event: Mapping the Mining Impacts of the Energy Transition
The Feds, Not Just Companies, Should Be Held to Account for Mining Harms Abroad
Could an Indigenous conservation area in Hudson Bay also be the key to saving carbon-rich peatlands?
MiningWatch Canada Pleased to Welcome New Communications Coordinator Val Croft
Canadian miners pursue prospects in war-torn Tigray
Regreening Sudbury – Burying the Mining Industry's Dirty Secrets
B.C. government failing to regulate dam safety, Auditor-General’s report finds
Hundreds of land defenders were killed in 2020, and that’s just the tip of the iceberg
Federal election promises for zero-emission vehicles have a catch
International Organizations Join Shuar Arutam People to Press Canadian Embassy in Ecuador to Condemn Canadian Company’s Threats and Abuses
Can B.C. stake its claim as a leader in responsible mineral extraction?
Nuxalk Nation calls on Juggernaut Exploration to cease operations and leave Nuxalk territory
Leaked report accuses Canada of covering for mining companies in war-torn Ethiopia
Coalition Finds Noront Has Not Disclosed Business Risk from Indigenous Opposition, Calls for OSC to Investigate Ring of Fire Proponent
Ban Seabed Mining! Embracing Our Culture
Are Canadian uranium workers still more likely to die from lung cancer?
Credibility Crisis: Brumadinho and the Politics of Mining Industry Reform
Putaendo Won't Surrender
Book Launch! The Water Defenders: A Celebration and Reflections on International Solidarity in El Salvador's Victory over Mining
Centerra Gold: The Ugly Face of Canadian Capitalism
180+ Communities, Organisations and Academics Reject Extractive-Heavy EU Green Deal
Human Rights Advocates and Legal Experts Deliver Blueprint for New International Corporate Accountability Law in Canada
It’s the End of Oil: Blockbuster IEA Report Urges No New Fossil Development
SARW Opposes Attempts by First Quantum Minerals to Silence It Through Court Action
Economic Analysis: The Marathon Palladium Project
Sayona Mining Exploration in Témiscamingue: Long Point First Nation Asks Government to Immediately Suspend the Tansim Project
The Blackwash Part Two: Crimes against Black people no obstacle for signing the BlackNorth pledge
Turkey is the latest victim of a billion-dollar corporate heist
Webinar: Green Energy, Green Mining, Green New Deal?
Osgoode professor asks feds to disclose alleged aid to Goldcorp in human rights disputes
Belo Sun: at the worst moment of the pandemic, Brazilian government authorizes in-person meeting between mining company and impacted Indigenous peoples
Free City Radio interview with Jamie Kneen – Canadian Foreign Policy Institute Sessions
Ottawa Must Disclose How It Aided Goldcorp in Human Rights Dispute, Federal Court Hears 
Canadian parliament asked to probe role of mining companies in PH killings 
Indigenous, Environmental Groups Call for Moratorium on Mining Development in Ring of Fire
One Thing Jason Kenney and Elizabeth May Agree On
How to Fix Mining for the Green Energy Explosion
Environmental Groups In Court To Defend Federal Environmental Law from Attack by Government of Alberta
Canadian companies’ watchdog still unable to receive complaints about human rights abuses abroad
The Atikamekw of Manawan Firmly Denounce the Government Decree Granted to Nouveau Monde Graphite for an Open Pit Mine in Ancestral Territory 
MiningWatch Canada Welcomes Interim Latin America Program Coordinator Viviana Herrera
Submission on the Terms of Reference for a Regional Assessment in the Ring of Fire Area
The glaring problem with Canada’s solar sector and how to fix it
URGENT ACTION: Call on Canadian Banks to Stop Funding Conflict at the Los Filos mine
Video of virtual round table: "Turning Down the Heat: Can We Mine Our Way Out of the Climate Crisis?"
Audio recording of the virtual round table: "Turning Down the Heat: Can We Mine Our Way Out of the Climate Crisis?"
Conference report: "Turning Down The Heat: Can We Mine Our Way Out of the Climate Crisis?"
Joint Comment to Ontario on Multiple Mineral Exploration Proposals in the Ring of Fire
The world needs lithium. Can Bolivia’s new president deliver it?
Ontario Must Assess the Impacts of Mines and Smelters Before They Are Built!
Ontario Must Assess the Impacts of Mines and Smelters Before They Are Built!
What Do Mine Tailings Dam Disasters Teach Us?
First Ever Inclusive Virtual Island-Wide Multi-Sectoral Consultation to Amplify the Voices of the People of Tonga
Quebec to spend $90 million developing minerals used in new technology
Virtual round table: "Turning Down the Heat: Can We Mine Our Way Out of the Climate Crisis?"
Take Action To Protect the Ida Mountains, Turkey
From Mines to Electric Vehicles: Three conditions to ensure electrification isn’t a mining disaster
Groups say federal funding of new nuclear reactors is a “dirty, dangerous distraction” from tackling climate change
In a world that needs metals, how can we mine more responsibly?
Northern Dynasty eyes controversial Alaska mine as high gold prices encourage ecologically dicey projects
Land Defenders Are Killed in the Philippines for Protesting Canadian Mining
Parliamentary Petition Launched on Deteriorating Human Rights Situation in the Philippines, Mining, and Canada's Role
PNG communities will have their day in court!
PNG’s approach to deep sea mining is ‘chaotic and uncoordinated’, all licences must be cancelled
Mexico: Ejido of Carrizalillo Revokes Agreement, Shuts Down Equinox Gold's Los Filos Mine
'A sacred spot': why goldmining threatens Nova Scotia's 'wildest' river
Podcast: Does mining fit into a clean energy future?
New Research Conducted at Los Cedros Reserve Provides Insights into Plant-Fungi Symbiosis
Plan for Tulsequah Chief Mine Closure and Cleanup Is Major Milestone
Restructured Lydian Escalates Standoff in Amulsar, Armenia
Canada not walking the talk on its miners’ abuses abroad, campaigners say
Sediment plumes from deep-sea mining could pollute vast swaths of the ocean, scientists say
Barrick Goes To International Arbitration in Last Ditch Effort to Hold onto Lucrative Porgera Mine
Goal of tailings management should be zero harm – report
Safety First: Guidelines for Responsible Mine Tailings Management
Safety First: New Report Outlines Guidelines To End Mine Waste Disasters
An Open Letter to Prime Minister Trudeau on Investor Lawsuits & COVID-19
ATM Statement on the Expired Mining Contract of Oceana Gold Philippines, Inc. (OGPI)
Canadian Company Threatens Biodiverse Forest in Victoria, Australia with Plans for New Gold Mine
Legal Experts Call for Immediate Halt to Mineral Staking and Permitting in Ontario Under Pandemic Conditions
International arbitration: the key themes leading to mining disputes
Voices from the Ground: How the Global Mining Industry is Profiting from the COVID-19 Pandemic
New Report: Canadian Mining Companies Profiting from COVID-19 Pandemic, Putting Communities and Workers at Risk
Put People First, Demand Over 150 Canadian Organizations with the Launch of Six Principles for a Just Recovery
Wilderness Committee Discovers Illegal Mining Claim in Nopiming Provincial Park
Report calls for moratorium on deep-sea mining
Predicting the Impacts of Mining Deep Sea Polymetallic Nodules in the Pacific Ocean: A Review of Scientific Literature
New Report Highlights Deep Sea Nodule Mining Danger to Pacific Ocean and Island Nations
Supreme Court of Canada Confirms Death of Zombie “New Prosperity” Mine Project
Global Civil Society Organizations Condemn Violent Dispersal of Indigenous Peoples’ Mining Barricade in the Philippines
What Mining Means for Nova Scotia (Part 2)
ATM Statement: Condemnation of violent dispersal of peoples’ barricade in Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines
COVID-19: Mining Companies Putting Workers and Communities at Greater Risk
Indigenous women mark Women's Day with protest dance against mining
Bankruptcy Court Informed of Misleading Information in Mining Company Lydian’s Affidavit
Hundreds Block Entrances, Surround World’s Largest Mining Convention
Supreme Court Rules that Canadian Courts Can Hear Slave Labour Lawsuit Against Canadian Company
Western Quebec municipalities, activists aim to curb mining operations
Canada Carbon Drops $96 Million Lawsuit Against Grenville-sur-la-Rouge: A First Citizen Victory!
New Research Shows Mongolia Forced to Give Up Control Over Natural Resources
Barrick Faces Fresh Legal Battle Over Alleged Human Rights Abuses in Tanzania
MiningWatch and JATAM Write to Vale Indonesia and Vale Canada to Support Karonsi'e Dongi Demand for Electricity
Mining CEO Tells Vancouver Business Crowd He Sees a ‘Monster Opportunity’ to Profit Off Mining Disasters
Canadian Delegation Receives Report Linking Human and Environmental Abuses to Canadian Mining Activities in Chile
MiningWatch Canada pushes for global review of safety of tailings dams
Communities & Civil Society Call for Action to Prevent More Mine Waste Disasters on First Anniversary of Deadly Brazilian Spill
Banro Corporation in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Comments on Global Tailings Review Draft Standard
Federal Court of Appeal Shuts Down Taseko Mines Over "Prosperity" Mine Rejection
Lithium could help us ditch fossil fuels. But mining is messy.
Australia’s National Environment Group Gives Major Award to Aboriginal People Standing Strong Against Cameco
HudBay Operations in Peru and Guatemala: Violence and Repression Found to Result from Mining Company Contracts with State Security Forces
Nautilus Minerals Still Lost at Sea with No Life Raft in Sight 
Where Does Canada Stand on Deep Sea Mining?
Selected Background Readings for "Turning Down the Heat: Can We Mine Our Way Out of the Climate Crisis?"
Mining Impacts of Green Energy Transition Focus of International Conference
Metal Extraction in a Low Carbon Economy: Projected Trends in Metal Demand and Policy Options for Demand Reduction
A Canadian company wants to build Brazil’s largest open-pit gold mine. Now that Bolsonaro is in power, it just might succeed
B.C. First Nations should require full clean-up costs up-front for mines: new study
"Turning Down the Heat: Can We Mine Our Way Out of the Climate Crisis?" – Resource People & Presentations
Anonymous Facebook page touts ‘recovery’ at Mount Polley while mine waste still piped into lake
What riches await…
‘When are they going to ensure the polluter pays?’: proposed B.C. mining reforms don’t go far enough
Largest Gold Mine in Canada Settles with Affected Citizens Out of Court
International Articulation of People Affected by Vale Travels to Europe to Denounce Mining Crimes in Brazil
More arguments vs. OceanaGold
OceanaGold’s financial and technical assistance agreement should not be renewed 
"Turning Down the Heat: Can We Mine Our Way Out of the Climate Crisis?"
Mining industry seeks to polish tarnished reputation
Mining industry seeks to polish tarnished reputation
Tŝilhqot’in Nation Welcomes Injunction Halting Taseko Drilling Program
Thank you for registering for "Turning Down the Heat: Can we mine our way out of the climate crisis?"
Moratorium on Deep Sea Mining Welcomed But More Courage Required of PM Marape: PNG citizens call for a full ban on seabed mining
Mining, murder and Canadian impunity in Mexico
We Have a New Federal Impact Assessment Act. Yay.
In a Turkish forest, resistance grows to a Canadian company’s gold-mining project
“We will continue until we win,” say the Turkish protesters taking on a major Canadian mining project
Multi-billion dollar fine on Pakistan puts the spotlight on a secret court
John Perkins Announces Lawsuit Following Arrest at Atlantic Gold Public Information Session
Open Letter to Prime Minister Trudeau Expresses Alarm Over Project List Under New Impact Assessment Act
Mining Industry Lobbied Government 530 Times in 15 Months: Is this the reason for diluted mandate for business ombudsperson?
Mi'kmaq Matters Episode 105: Preparing for the Valentine Lake Environmental Assessment
Why the Rush? Seabed Mining in the Pacific Ocean
Why the Rush for Seabed Mining? Intrigue, Collusion and Interesting Bedfellows
Canadian Mines Ministers Meet in Cranbrook: Is B.C.’s competitive advantage weak environmental regulation?
Conference: "Turning Down the Heat: Can We Mine Our Way Out of the Climate Crisis?"
Canada brushed off abuse complaints against Barrick-linked gold miner in Tanzania, emails show
Tŝilhqot’in Nation Announces Peaceful Action to Protect Teẑtan Biny and Yanah Biny, Calls on Government of British Columbia to Intervene
Tailings dam failures linked to hefty bonuses for mine managers: report
Save the Date! Announcing Our 20th Anniversary Conference – Ottawa, November 14-15, 2019
Canadian mining companies will now face human rights charges in Canadian courts
Mining in Canada is shrinking, and a wave of impassioned community opposition is partly to blame
For Peoples and Planet - 20th Anniversary Fundraising Campaign
Comments on the Discussion Papers on the Proposed Project List and the Proposed Information Requirements and Time Management Regulations
Barrick proposes low-ball buyout offer for beleaguered Tanzanian subsidiary Acacia
Senate Amendments, Weak Proposed Regulations Threaten to Push Federal Environmental Assessment Bill C-69 Into Irrelevance
Mi'kmaq Matters – Episode 99: Mining Mi'kmaq Land
Talking Points podcast episode 4 - Digging for Dividends
UN watchdog critical of government delays with new corporate ethics ombud
Over 50 Organizations Urge World Bank to Boost Recycling, Circular Economy & Non-Mining Solutions for a Truly Climate Smart Agenda
Submission to the Standing Senate Committee on Energy, the Environment, and Natural Resources (ENEV) on Bill C-69
Securities Complaint: Northern Dynasty Minerals Misleading Investors Over Pebble
Canada slowly pushes for corporate transparency as part of anti-corruption push
Internal memo at Natural Resources Canada responds to The Narwhal’s reporting on low mining taxes and royalties
'Lobbied to death': Liberals face backlash over corporate responsibility ombudsman
Announcing MiningWatch Canada’s 20th Anniversary Annual General Meeting
The Marcopper mine spill and the unending wait for justice
The Marcopper disaster: A tragedy that continues in people’s veins
Ground-Breaking Federal Court Hearing over Canadian Mining Diplomacy and Assassination of Mexican Community Leader
Osgoode Hall professor will argue Canada should investigate assassination of Mexican activist
Aura Minerals & Honduran Government Criminalizing 19 Azacualpa community Defenders
“Will Today’s Deal Bring Tomorrow’s Disaster?” Mining Companies Denounced for Human Rights Abuses and Environmental Disasters
Why Canada wants regime change in Venezuela
Report One Month After the Crime-Tragedy of Brumadinho
Nova Scotia Ministry of Energy and Mines Withholds Toxic Leak Information
Nutrien maintains Western Sahara link via China
Can Slave Labour Charges Against Canadian Company Be Heard in Court in Canada? Supreme Court of Canada Hears Arguments Today
Prosperity Mine Case goes to Federal Court of Appeal
MEDIA ADVISORY: MiningWatch Canada, Ecojustice Available to Comment on New Prosperity Mine Court Case
Canadian Copper Mine Destroying Forests in Panamian Sector of Mesoamerican Biological Corridor
Mining watchdog describes grim plight of Porgera people
Indigenous Rights Defenders Targeted Over Opposition to OceanaGold Mine, Seek Support from Canadian Embassy in Philippines
Catherine Coumans talks to Coop Radio's "Redeye" about the Ombuds
OceanaGold Fails to Refute Report’s Critical Findings
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MiningWatch Canada Newsletter #42 – Autumn 2018
Statement by the Mesoamerican Movement in Resistance to the Extractivist Model (M4) on State-Regulated Consultations
Mining-Affected Communities Ask: Where Is Canada's Ombudsperson for Responsible Enterprise?
Willa Mine in Southern British Columbia – Abandoned by its Owners?
Papua New Guinea Landowners to Challenge 29 Year Old Porgera Mine in Supreme Court
Neskantaga and Eabametoong First Nations Issue Declaration of Alliance and Shared Regulatory Territory
Justice for Roşia Montană! Roşia Montană Voices to be Heard in Illegal Romanian Gold Mine Litigation
OceanaGold in the Philippines: Ten Violations that Should Prompt Its Removal
New Study Supports Calls for OceanaGold’s Didipio Mine in the Philippines To Be Closed
Nautilus, Are You Nuts?! Second Large Earthquake Near Proposed Solwara 1 Site
MiningWatch Canada Pleased to Welcome New Latin America Program Coordinator Kirsten Francescone
Porgera Stories – Justice Foundation for Porgera
Guatemala’s Highest Court Orders Tahoe’s Escobal Mine to Remain Suspended
What happens if Imperial Metals goes bankrupt?
Canada’s mining giants pay billions less in taxes in Canada than abroad
MiningWatch Canada Newsletter #41 – Spring/Summer 2018
Women Speak Out About Abuse at Barrick Gold’s North Mara Mine in Tanzania
New Report Points To Corporate Complicity in Human Rights Abuses in Eritrea as Canadian Company Goes To Supreme Court Over Allegations of Forced Labour
Integrity Commissioner’s Refusal to Investigate Canadian Embassy Prompts Application to Federal Court of Canada
Alaska Native Leaders and Fishermen Tell First Quantum: Dump Pebble Mine
MiningWatch Partners Join International Gathering of Women Resisting Extractivism in Montreal
The Hidden Face of Transport Electrification: A “mining boom” that threatens to blow up the environment
Review of Barrick Gold/Acacia Mining’s Draft “Community Grievance Process - Standard Operating Procedure” for the North Mara Gold Mine in Tanzania
Victims at Barrick Mines in Papua New Guinea and Tanzania Demand Halt to Ongoing Violence and Fair Reparations for Human Rights Abuses
Letter to the Minister of Environment and Climate Change re: development of the Project List under the proposed Impact Assessment Act
MiningWatch Annual Seminar – May 4, 2018
Submission to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development (ENVI) Regarding Bill C-69
Making the (Mid-term) Grade: A Report Card on Canada's New Impact Assessment Act
Environmental Groups Give Federal Impact Assessment Act C-minus Grade
Recommendations on Proposed Prohibition of Asbestos and Asbestos Products Regulations
Canada mining murder in Mexico
Pebble Mine Investment Risk Warning: New Report Examines Hunter Dickinson Track Record
Behind the Pebble Mine: Hunter Dickinson Inc., the Canadian Mining Company You’ve Never Heard Of
What do the mining watchdogs see?
Bill C-69: New Federal Environmental Review Laws Fall Short of Promises
Mexican Delegation Questions Role of Canadian Embassy in Complaint to Integrity Commissioner
Canadian Embassy in Mexico Subject of Complaint to Public Sector Integrity Commissioner
The DNI Metals Mining Project in Vohitsara, Madagascar Must Really Be Stopped!
Mining Giant Rio Tinto’s Tax Haven Scheme Costs Canada and Mongolia Nearly $700 Million in Lost Tax Revenue
Golden promises and unpaid bills: The case of Oyu Tolgoi and profitable tax avoidance by Rio Tinto in Mongolia
The Canadian company behind this Mongolian mine has avoided half a billion dollars in taxes, report alleges
A small town in Quebec could power the next wave of electric cars
Environmental Experts Lay Out Expectations for Federal Environmental Assessment Bill
Indigenous Malaysian Forest Activists Bring Quest for Justice to Canada with Film Tour
Complete and Permanent Closure of Pascua Lama: The Power of Conviction and Persistence
OECD Peer Review of the Canadian National Contact Point on the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises
Long-Fought-For Ombudsperson Announced to Investigate International Complaints against Canadian Mining Companies
At Last, Communities Affected by Canadian Corporations Overseas Will Be Heard: Government Creates Human Rights Watchdog
Dead Mine Walking? Federal Court Reconfirms Taseko’s “New Prosperity” Mine a ‘No Go’
Raids, incarceration and decimated Indigenous land stains Canada's reputation in Guatemala
Court upholds decision to block Taseko mine near Williams Lake
Protect Jacko Lake and the Pípsell Cultural Area from Mining – Take Action Now!
MiningWatch Canada Newsletter #40 – Autumn 2017
Launch of OECD Watch ‘Remedy is the Reason’ Campaign
How an Ontario court case could change Canadian mining overseas​
Organizations Urge Canadian Government to Cooperate with Costa Rican Investigation
Mining “Development and Progress” Spills Blood Once Again in Guerrero, Mexico: Two more deaths on the conscience of Prime Minister Trudeau
Trudeau Government Must Act after Striking Workers Murdered at Canadian-Owned Mine in Mexico
Organisations Ask Prime Minister Trudeau To Take Action on Corruption
Canada Has Second-Worst Mining Record in World: UN
Former Attorney General of Papua New Guinea warns potential investors - Nautilus is a risky deal!
Alaskans Comment in Record Numbers to Preserve EPA’s Proposed Protections for Bristol Bay
Groups Across Canada Urge Trudeau Government to Protect 100% of Lakes and Rivers
House Subcommittee Hearings on Mining in Latin America a Public Disservice
Guatemalans Denounce Tahoe Resources’ Plan to “Pick Them Apart”
Alaskans Push U.S. Government to Investigate B.C.’s Border Mines
Guatemala court clarifies consultation area, denies action on export permit
DNI Metals Digs Itself in Deeper in Madagascar
Media Advisory: Robinson-Huron Treaty Lawsuit Hearings to Commence Against Federal and Provincial Governments in Thunder Bay
Resource firms try to learn lessons from Canada's troubled history with First Nations
Public Statement on the 10th Anniversary of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Madagascar Farmers Confront Canadian Junior Mining Company
Digging for the truth
Environmental Groups Send Letter to Ministers re: Reforming Federal Environmental Assessment Law
Comments on the Government of Canada Discussion Paper on the Review of Environmental and Regulatory Processes
Let’s Get It Right: It's Time to Strengthen Canada's Environmental Laws
Maliseet leaders to attend mining ministers conference in St. Andrews
Is the Federal Government Backing Away from Environmental Assessment Reform Promises?
Report to the U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
Me7e Pípsell Ta7a Ajax – Yes Pípsell No Ajax: SSN Response to British Columbia’s & CEAA Environmental Assessment Office Ajax Mine Project Assessment Reports
Clean Energy and Extractivism – Does getting to sustainability require greater sacrifices?
Nautilus AGM : Solwara 1 Deep Sea Mining Venture Remains a Speculative Pipe Dream
Prairie Mines & Royalty ULC Conviction and $4.5 Million Fine Does Little to Reduce Threat to UNESCO World Heritage Site
Almost A Quarter-Million People Worldwide Join Call For Nevsun Resources Investors to Divest Over Abuses at Eritrea Mine
Apple’s Commitment to a No-Mining Future Makes Deep Sea Mining Unnecessary
Media Advisory – Nevsun Resources Investors To Face Petition Calling for Divestment Over Abuses at Eritrea Mine
Women from Papua New Guinea bring rape complaints to Canadian mining company’s door
Mining violence survivors demand justice in Toronto
Barrick Confronted by Indigenous Women from Papua New Guinea at AGM
#WeAreUofT E.19 - #WeBelieveSurvivors of Barrick Gold ft. Porgera Women's Rights Watch & MiningWatch Canada
What does Hudbay have to hide from Peruvians? MiningWatch Canada Staff Member, US Journalist Arbitrarily Detained in Peru over Documentary About Hudbay Minerals’ Operations
Peruvian police detain filmmaker after showing documentary critical of Hudbay Minerals
Indigenous Women Speak Out About Mining's Impacts on Women – Ottawa Event
Approval of Mount Polley mine waste dumping irks critics
MiningWatch Annual Seminar – April 27, 2017
B.C. Quietly Grants Mount Polley Mine Permit to Pipe Mine Waste Directly Into Quesnel Lake
Against the global harms caused by Canadian mining
Claims of human rights abuses near a PNG goldmine
Alleged Killer in Canadian Mining Company Lawsuit Acquitted in Guatemala
Expert Panel Report Calls for Broad Changes in Federal Environmental Assessment Law
Berta Cáceres Petition Presentation – Ottawa
Stk’emlúpsemc te Secwépemc Nation's opposition to Ajax receives strong backing
Stk’emlúpsemc te Secwépemc Nation (SSN) Building Allies Across B.C. and Canada to Oppose KGHM’s Ajax Mine in Kamloops
Movie-like intimidation and obstruction tactics at Certej
Media Advisory – Will Federal Prosecutors Lay Charges for Biggest Mining Spill in Canada?
Experts Call for Next-Generation Environmental Assessment Law
Canadians Have High Expectations for Assessment Law Reform, Environmental Experts Say
Media Advisory – Leading Experts to Outline Expectations for Environmental Assessment Reform
Profs call for action on extraction ombudsperon
Submission to the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights ahead of its Visit to Canada
Toronto's buried history: the dark story of how mining built a city
Not-so-innocent abroad
Prosperity Mine – A Precautionary Tale: The Importance of Environmental Assessments
Algonquin Nations denounce Quebec’s Mining Act
First Nations Women Stake Mining Claim on Minister Bill Bennett’s Property
Canada Needs a Human Rights Ombudsperson for the International Mining, Oil and Gas Sectors
In Memoriam: Arthur Manuel
Advisory: First Hearings this Week for MiningWatch Charges Against B.C. Government and Mount Polley Mining Corporation
Making Federal Environmental Assessment Work for the Public and the Planet
Urgent Communiqué on the Shutdown of Acción Ecológica
Seabed Mining in PNG: Environmental Experiment, False Hope of Economic Returns
Submission to the Standing Committee on Transport, Infrastructure, and Communities on its Study of the Navigation Protection Act
Prevent Mesothelioma and other Asbestos Diseases in Canada: Organizations call on Prime Minister for an Immediate Asbestos Ban and Expert Panel Review
Creation of a mining ombudsman on horizon, says Liberal MP championing the cause
Auditor General Slams Ontario’s Outdated Environmental Assessment Act – Groups Urge Government to Act
Submission to the Standing Committee on Fisheries and Oceans on its Review of Changes to the Fisheries Act
Report Calls for New Measures to Prevent and Remedy Harm by Multinational Companies
“Canada Is Back” But Still Far Behind
Canadian Mining Harms Around the World: Criminal and Civil Law Reform Needed Now
New Law Would Create Human Rights Ombudsperson to Investigate Violations Associated with Canadian Mining, Oil and Gas Operations Overseas
Violence at Canadian-owned mines turns up heat on Trudeau to create new standards
Protecting Your Community from Mining and Other Extractive Industries
Background: MiningWatch Canada Charges Against B.C. Government and Mount Polley Mine
There Are No Winners: After Seven Years and Millions of Dollars, Pac Rim Mining Loses Suit Against El Salvador
Advisory: International Tribunal to Issue Long-Awaited Decision on Mining Lawsuit Against El Salvador on Friday, October 14
Vancouver Court Clears Way for Slave Labour Lawsuit Against Canadian Mining Company To Go To Trial
Report to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women
Report to UN Committee: Canada Complicit in Mining Companies’ Pervasive Abuses Against Women
Police killed 65, injured 270 at Barrick mine in Tanzania, inquiry hears
Joint Comments to US SEC re Mining Disclosure Proposed Rule
Tanzanian Government Investigation Receives Hundreds of Reports of Violence and Deaths at North Mara Gold Mine
Peruvian Environmental Defender Attacked, Hospitalized
The Chevron Case: Debate with Representatives of the Affected Communities of the Ecuadorian Amazon
Quebec Stealthily Lifts Mining Moratorium; Algonquins Respond by Preparing to Defend Their Ancestral Territorial Waters, Lands & Wildlife
On Eve of Enforcement Trial, Canadian Civil Society Calls for Chevron's Assets To Be Frozen So Ecuador Judgment Can Be Paid
Submission to Canada’s International Assistance Review
A North-South Dialogue on Extractivism: Resistance and Alternatives
Join MiningWatch at the World Social Forum!
Report: Government Failure to Adequately Address Tailings Pond Issues Exposes Environment and British Columbians to Continued Serious Risk of Mt Polley-Type Failures
Nunavut hunters pleased but not surprised that feds rejected Areva's uranium mine
Honduran Village Resists Forced Relocation and Exhumations by Canadian Mining Company
Barrick Once Again Ignores Human Rights Victims – Peaceful Protest Planned at Porgera Mine in Papua New Guinea
Federal Government Opens Door to Paradigm Shift in Environmental Assessment
Newfoundland's Sisters of Mercy challenge Potash Corp in board room
Is Ivanhoe Mining Informing its Shareholders of Ivanplats’ Real Risks, Liabilities, and Irregularities?
Conservation Council of New Brunswick Comments on Sisson Mine Project Environmental Assessment Report
B.C. Encouraging Environmentally Risky Mining and Creating Massive Taxpayer Liability
Mining Offshore – Jurisdictions, That Is
MiningWatch Canada releases damning report on KGHM-Ajax
Advisory: Ottawa Event and Media Availability – Indigenous Rights, the Environment, and "Free Trade" Agreements
Post-Mount Polley: Tailings Dam Safety in British Columbia
Ignoring Best Practices, Four B.C./Alaska Transboundary Mines Risk Repeating Mount Polley Disaster
Barrick Consultant Delivers Biased Report on Inequitable Remedy Mechanism for Rape Victims
NGOs Warn: ‘Companies Duck Responsibility for Abuse Because of Flawed Human Rights Guidance, Lack of Independent Oversight’
Extraterritorial Obligations and Private Actors
Time to Axe the Conservative Government’s Ineffective CSR Counsellor Office
B.C., Federal Governments Urged to Halt Ajax Mine Project Review Until Full Feasibility Study Is Released
No charges under B.C.’s mining laws for failure of Mount Polley mine dam
NGOs Urge RCMP To Investigate Kinross Over Reports of Corruption in Africa
MiningWatch Canada Newsletter #39 – Autumn 2015
Ontarians on the Hook for Water & Mine Site Clean-Up Costs – Alarming Report from Eco-Commissioner
Environmental Groups Present Clear Plan for Modernizing B.C.’s Mining Laws
Groups Call for Public Inquiry on Investissement Quebec’s Arnaud Mine Fiasco
Fears of Contamination of Drinking Water of Turkey’s Third Largest City Fuel Opposition to Eldorado Gold’s Efemçukuru Mine
Barrick Gold urged to come clean on rape victims' compensation
World’s First Deep Sea Mining Proposal Ignores Consequences for Oceans
Supreme Court of Canada Affirms International Enforcement of the Law, Allows Ecuadorans to Pursue Chevron Assets in Canada
AREVA’s "Kiggavik" Uranium Project: Federal Government Called to Uphold Nunavut Impact Review Board’s ‘No-Go’ Recommendation
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Canada’s Mines Ministers ‘Open’ to Taking Action to Prevent Future Mine Waste Disasters, But Concrete Commitments Lacking
Worldwide Pressure on the International Seabed Authority for a Moratorium on Deep Sea Mining
Canadian Mines Ministers Conference in Halifax: Provinces & Territories Must Act To Avoid Mine Waste Disasters
Red Light for Uranium Mining in Quebec: Quebec meillure mine Coalition Welcomes the Independent Panel Conclusions
Mount Polley Mine Reopens Despite Ongoing Investigations
B.C. Mining Code Review Welcome, But Needs Broad Scope
B.C. & Alaska Indigenous Leaders Attending Seabridge Gold Shareholder Meeting To Protest Risky Mine Plan
Nautilus Minerals: Investor and Shareholder Alert
Canadian Mine Among Sites of Gross Human Rights Violations in Eritrea – UN Report
MiningWatch Canada Pleased to Welcome New Team Member Diana Martin
MiningWatch Canada Newsletter #38 – Spring/Summer 2015
Mokopane Residents Picket Canadian High Commission in South Africa to Protest Ivanhoe Mines
Time to Renew Ontario’s Mineral Development Strategy - For Real This Time
Ontarians for a Just Accountable Mineral Strategy (OJAMS) Submission to the Ontario Ministry of Northern Development and Mines re: Revisions to the Ontario Mineral Development Strategy 2015
No Silver Lining for Eldorado Gold's Certej Project in Romania: Top reasons to stay away
Canadians and Americans Demand No More Mount Polleys
International Delegates from Five Continents Sign Declaration of World Uranium Symposium
Sale of Canadian Uranium to India Denounced by International Experts at the World Uranium Symposium
Wiretap Transcripts Raise Troubling Questions About Tahoe Resources' Militarized Security
Exclusive at the World Uranium Symposium: Naoto Kan, Prime Minister of Japan during the Fukushima Catastrophe
Barrick Settlement on Rapes and Killings in Papua New Guinea Proof that Victims Need Independent Legal Counsel
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Canadian Mining Company Eldorado Gold Devastates Greek Communities, Uses the Netherlands, Barbados to Avoid Tax
A Mount Polley in Waiting – The Harper Creek Mine Should Not Open
New Federal CSR Counsellor an “Industry Man” – Weak Mandate Remains
Canadian Embassy went too far to protect mining company interests in Mexico, critics say
Government Documents Reveal Canadian Embassy Backed Mining Abuses in Mexico
Unearthing Canadian Complicity: Excellon Resources, the Canadian Embassy and the Violation of Land and Labour Rights in Durango, Mexico
Discredited Fraser Institute Mining Survey Resurfaces
"Mining if necessary, but not necessarily mining"
Algonquins Critical of Quebec's Conflict of Interest with High Risk $4 Million Investment in Rare Earths Open Pit Mining Project
Out-of-Court Settlement Good for Some Tanzanian Villagers – But Many Others Hindered from Participation by Barrick’s Grievance Mechanism
“Business as Usual” Cannot Continue: Mount Polley Report on Tailings Dam Safety
MiningWatch Canada Proud to Announce Ugo Lapointe as New Canada Program Coordinator
“The Process Is the Punishment”: Taseko Takes Wilderness Committee to Court Over Fight to Save Fish Lake
The Big Hole: Environmental Assessment and Mining in Ontario
MiningWatch Canada Newsletter #37 – Fall/Winter 2014
Five Years After Mariano Abarca Was Murdered for his Resistance Against Blackfire Exploration, We Demand Justice!
Feds move toward protecting Canada’s ‘brand’ in foreign mining operations
Canada’s CSR Strategy for Extractives 2.0 – Government Acknowledges Power to Act, Declines to Do So
Peruvian Community Denounces HudBay Minerals for Human Rights Violations over Constancia Project
Blood for gold: The human cost of Canada’s ‘free trade’ with Honduras
Barrick Faces Court in London
Canada Accused of Failing to Prevent Overseas Mining Abuses
Edgewater Exploration's Spanish Subsidiary in Critical Economic Situation
Mining and Resettlement of Communities in Ghana: Exposing the harm caused by forced displacement and relocation
Washington, D.C. hearing to spotlight the Canadian Government’s failure to prevent harm and ensure justice for mining-affected communities abroad
Organizations Alert World Bank to Risks of Colombian Mining Investment
Canada Refuses to Take Action Against Abuses by Mining Project in Ecuador
Ottawa Groups Ask Australian High Commissioner to Support El Salvador over Mining Conflict with Australian Firm OceanaGold
Barrick Gold refuses to relocate villagers who suffer murder, rape and house burning
Increased Violence at Barrick’s Porgera Mine: Indigenous Ipili send Envoy from Papua New Guinea to Canada
Tens of Thousands Call On OceanaGold to Drop its Suit Against El Salvador as Secret Hearings Begin at World Bank Tribunal
In Memory of Marilyn Crawford
Secwepemc First Nation Evicts Imperial Metals
Open Pit Mega-mines in Quebec – Size Really Does Matter: Citizens’ coalition says independent assessment and new regulations are urgently needed
Violence Ongoing at Barrick Mine in Tanzania: MiningWatch Canada and RAID (UK) Complete Human Rights Assessment
Taseko Mines CEO Hallbauer Requested to Stop Slander
Canadian Mining Watchdog Warns Arizonans of HudBay Minerals’ Poor Track Record on Pollution and Human Rights
Federal Government Blocks Completion of Nunavut Land Use Plan, Denies Funding for Final Public Consultation
Taseko Mines Limited Remains in Denial Post Title Decision
Human Rights Organizations Urge Canada to Take Action Against Corporate Abuses in Ecuador
Lawsuit Against Tahoe Resources a Wake Up Call for Investors and Canadians
Glencore’s Ruthless Cost-cutting Harms Communities in the Congo, Say NGOs
MiningWatch Canada Newsletter #36 – Spring/Summer 2014
Mining watchdog claims landowners ignored in Porgera
Villagers' Houses Burnt Down Again at Barrick Gold Mine in Papua New Guinea
Provincial Candidates Support Goal of Full Protection for Wolf Lake Old Growth Forest
Human Rights and Environmental Organizations Denounce De Facto State of Emergency in Intag, Ecuador
We’re Celebrating Fifteen Years of Action in Support of Communities Affected by Mining
OSC Forces Chieftain Metals to Correct 2013 AIF and Retract Corporate Presentation
Premier Gold Proposes Mine with Significant Environmental Damage, Minimal Environmental or First Nations Scrutiny
Wolf Lake Coalition to Press Provincial Candidates’ and Leaders’ Commitment to Protecting World’s Largest Old Growth Red Pine Forest
MiningWatch Canada to Participate in First Round of Quebec’s Consultations on Uranium
Canadian Mining Investment Benefits Eritrea’s Repressive Regime
Barrick Gold Hit with Quebec Class Action - Follows Shareholder Suits in Ontario and US
Supreme Court Hears Grassy Narrows' Legal Case for Treaty Rights and Against Clearcut Logging
Sixteen-year old girl murdered in continued violence associated with Tahoe Resources' mine – Canada Pension Plan urged to divest
Ejido Carrizallillo Announces Agreement with Goldcorp, Ending 33-Day Strike
International Organizations Demand Justice in Deadly Attack Against Opponents of Tahoe Resources' Mine
Mexican Landowners Demand Respect from Goldcorp as Blockade at ‘Los Filos’ Mine Enters Fifth Week
Barrick Financial Woes Related to Human Rights and Environmental Abuses Raised by Protestors at Yearly AGMs – Shareholders Should Pay Attention!
Five Major Mining Challenges for Quebec's New Government to Address
International Coalition Supports El Salvador in Battle Against Canadian Mining Company
Colombia’s Ministry of Environment unveils the demarcation of the Santurbán Páramo without specifying details of the measurements
Community to File Suit for Restoration of Lands as Goldcorp Refuses Dignified Terms at Los Filos Mine
Local Landowners to Shut Down Goldcorp Operations at Los Filos, Guerrero Following Breakdown in Land Rental Negotiations
‘On the Road for Justice’ Speaking Tour to Bring Attention to Guatemala Mining Conflict, Need for Remedy in Canada
Four Years After Submitting Evidence, Organizations Challenge Anti-Corruption Law as Ineffective
New Federally Funded Academic Institute a Tool to Support Mining Industry
Rejection of New Prosperity Project Provides Clarity to Industry: Lake Destroying Projects and Projects Without Indigenous Consent Need Not Apply
First Nations Celebrate Federal Rejection of New Prosperity Mine Proposal
Letter to Barrick regarding African Barrick Gold’s non-judicial “remedy programs” at North Mara, Tanzania
Canadian Organizations Condemn Gold Company’s Lawsuit Against Costa Rica
Tsilhqot'in National Government: New Prosperity Must Be Rejected - Scathing Panel Reports Cannot Be Ignored
Film Premiere: "Honour Your Word" Documents Years of Struggle by Barriere Lake Algonquin to Protect their Land and Culture
Imagine if Canada were Open for Justice!
White River First Nation Says Yukon’s Response to Ross River Dena “Free Entry” Court Decision Inadequate
Over One-Quarter Million People Side with Costa Rica in Imminent Battle with Canadian Company Infinito Gold
First Nations and NGOs Demand Full Disclosure and Government Action on Sherritt's Toxic Coal Mine Spill
African Barrick’s Confidential Compensation Agreements Questioned at Troubled Tanzania Mine
Tens of Thousands Oppose Tahoe Resource’s Escobal Project in Guatemala
Is Ontario Getting a Fair Share for Our Mineral Resources? An open letter to Bonnie Lysyk, Auditor General for Ontario
MiningWatch Canada Newsletter #35 – Fall/Winter 2013
Open Letter to Foreign Affairs Minister and Members of Parliament: Corporate Accountability and Withdrawal of Canadian Support for Gabriel Resources in Romania
Opposition Builds to First Quantum Minerals’ Copper Mine, Dams, and Land Grab in Zambia
Message to Canada’s Infinito Gold: Drop your outrageous billion-dollar lawsuit against Costa Rica!
Australian-Canadian Firm OceanaGold Bails Out Pacific Rim Mining: Deal means more punishment for El Salvador
Spilled Coal Slurry Not Inert But Laced with Arsenic, Toxic Metals, and Carcinogenic PAHs
Taseko Fails On All Counts - Again: Conclusions of “New Prosperity” Review Panel Echo Previous Review
Barrick Ignores UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Recommendation Regarding Papua New Guinea Rapes
Open for Justice: Increasing corporate accountability in Canada
Third Mining Company Walks Out on Canada’s Extractives Counsellor
Yukon Government Finally Listens - Terminates Tarsis Resources' Class 3 Mining Licence Application
Belo Sun No! Forty-four Organizations Oppose Approval of Mining Project on Xingu River, Brazil
Canadian Mining Company Infinito Gold Seeks to Extort $1 Billion from Costa Rica
Restart public review period for Sisson mine project: CCNB Action
Chieftain Metals’ Announcement of Feasibility Study Review Ignores Major Flaws and Uncertainties of Tulsequah Chief Mine Proposal
Of Vampires and a Zombie Mine in Transylvania
Guatemalan Indigenous Organizations File Complaint over Mining Law with Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
Taseko's New Prosperity Project Fails on Environment, Human Rights, and Economics
Top Canadian Lake Ecologist Says Fish Lake Will be Dead in Ten Years if Mine Proceeds
Family of Murdered Mexican Activist Seeks Answers on Canadian Embassy's Support for Implicated Canadian Company
Civil Society Organizations’ Response on the Zambian Government Position Regarding the Protection Order of the Chisola Dam Project in Kalumbila
Canadian Complaints Office Should Investigate Destructive Large-scale Mining Project in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Guatemalan Complainants Celebrate Effective Suspension of Tahoe Resources' Licence
Calgary-based Infinito Gold Fails to Strong-arm Costa Rican Judiciary As Final Appeal Rejected by Supreme Court
Calgary-based Infinito Gold Fails to Strong-arm Costa Rican Judiciary As Final Appeal Rejected by Supreme Court
World Bank Investment in Eco Oro Minerals in Colombia to be Audited
Nautilus Questioned on Economic Viability and Environmental Risks of Deep Sea Mining
Nautilus Questioned on Economic Viability and Environmental Risks of Deep Sea Mining
Canadian Organizations Welcome First Step Toward Extractive Industry Transparency; Further Mandatory Measures Needed for Real Accountability
International Condemnation for Barrick Gold’s Effort to Seek Immunity from Legal Action by Rape Victims
Newsletter 33: Spring/Summer 2013 - PDF version
Canadian Ambassadors, or Ambassadors for Canadian Mining Companies?
Alternative Mining Indaba Brings Community Perspective to South African Mining Debates
Greek Delegation Asks Canadians to Help Stop Canadian Mining Company Eldorado Gold
Background on Eldorado Gold’s Proposed Mines in Northern Greece
Violence Around Eldorado Gold's Mining Projects in Northern Greece Brings Critics to Canada
More Shine Than Substance: How RJC certification fails to create responsible jewelry
Industry-controlled Responsible Jewellery Council Fails to Fulfil Promise of Preventing Conflict Diamonds and Dirty Gold
Preliminary Report: Gold Mining and the Defence of Water in El Salvador
OECD Complaint Filed Against ENRC Regarding Mining Communities in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Gold and Democracy Don’t Mix – Eldorado Gold Faces Determined Opposition in Greece
Barrick Seeks Immunity from Rape Victims at its Porgera mine in Papua New Guinea
Groups Warn Infinito Gold re: Continued Threats Against Costa Rica Over Crucitas Gold Project
Guatemala: Tahoe's Mining Licence Approved in Wake of Violence; Investigation into Murder Pending
Algonquins of Barriere Lake Affirm Opposition to Copper One’s Rivière Doré Project and All Claim Staking and Mineral Exploration in their Territory
New Investment Agreements Show Canadian Commitment to Africa Mining Vision a Hollow Promise
MiningWatch Canada: a profile
Federal Government Balking at First Small Step to Rebuild Environmental Assessment – Improved Regulations
Newsletter 33: Autumn 2012 - PDF version
Parti Québécois Scuttles Plans to Re-open Asbestos Mines
Canada’s Development Aid Dollars at Odds with Communities
Guatemala’s ‘Goldcorp Law’
Corporations Fight Against Access to Domestic Courts for Harm Caused Overseas
Ghanaian Farmers Run Out of Patience with Kinross/Chirano Gold Mines
Poor Mining Companies? Parliamentary Committee Report Calls for CIDA Giveaway to Canadian Corporations
No Justice in Canada for Congolese Massacre Victims as Supreme Court of Canada Dismisses Leave to Appeal
Aid Money Should Not Be Used to Support Australian Mining Interests in Africa
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
Proposed Amendments to the Regulations Designating Physical Activities Under the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act 2012
Death of Evidence Rally: How Budget Cuts Will Affect Mining Issues
The London Stock Exchange – A Haven for Laundered Conflict Assets?
Formal Request Submitted to Ontario Securities Commission for a Full Investigation of Excellon Resources, Inc.
Mexico: Excellon and Government of Durango Intimidate and Pressure Communal Landowners to End Peaceful Protest of La Platosa Mine
Leading Human Rights and Environmental Groups Urge Peru to Halt Repression and Human Rights Abuses Against Mining Protesters
Algonquin Chiefs Issue Ultimatum to Matamec & Toyota Tsusho Corp.: Finalize Exploration Agreement or Cease Activities at Rare Earths Deposit
Chiefs Prepare Eviction Notice to Mining Companies Working in the Ring of Fire
Nautilus Seabed Mining Experiment Falters: Dispute with PNG Government, Opposition by Pacific and Canadian Citizens, Financing Woes
Newsletter 32: Summer 2012 - PDF version
Mining Threatens One of BC’s Largest Sockeye Salmon Runs
KI Achieves Protection for 23,000 Square Kilometres; Ontario Makes Another Multi-million Dollar Buy-out
Canada’s Subsidies to the Mining Industry Don’t Stop at Aid: Political Support Betrays Government Claims of Corporate Social Responsibility
The Debate Over Mining and Development Continues...
Communities Shouldn’t Pay To Clean Up Goldcorp’s Mess in Central America
Mapping Canadian Mining in Latin America: Referendums and Risks
ACTION ALERT: Budget Omnibus Bill C-38 Will Shred Canada’s Environmental Assessment Law (Among Many Other Things)
MiningWatch Welcomes Cree Call for Uranium Moratorium
Shining a Light on the Federal Government’s False Claims on Environmental Assessment and the Budget
Presentation to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance on Bill C-38, the Budget Implementation Act
Environmental Defenders in Danger in Mesoamerica
ACTION ALERT: Sherritt Must Be Accountable for All Human and Environmental Damage Caused by the Ambatovy Project
Goldcorp Shareholders Ask Company to Ensure Full Independent Financing and Disclosure of Closure Plans for Marlin Mine
Another Mining Horror Story? Sherritt International Corporation’s Ambatovy Project in Madagascar
Federal Government Hides Behind Budget with Changes to Environmental Assessment
Congolese Victims’ Pursuit of Justice Against Canadian Company Goes to Supreme Court
Statement Regarding Quebec Court of Appeal Decision in Canadian Association Against Impunity v. Anvil Mining Limited
Murder of Indigenous Opponent of Canadian Mine Sparks Protest at Canadian Embassy in Mexico City
Centerra Gold Inc. Flouting Mongolia’s Environmental Protection Laws: Organizations File Complaint with Canadian Government
Mexico and Canada uphold impunity in Blackfire case
Parliamentary Environment Committee’s ‘Paint by Numbers’ Report Fails to Produce Credible Review of Canadian Environmental Assessment Act
Peruvians Oppose CIDA’s Joint CSR Initiative with Barrick Gold and World Vision
Taseko Lawsuit Won’t Stop Opposition to “New” Prosperity Mine Project
Taseko Mines’ Libel Chill Bid to Silence Opposition Won’t Work - Tŝilhqot’in
Canadian Mining Overseas: Counter to Development Goals and Discrediting Canada
From Coast to Coast, Canadian Groups Say Strong, Inclusive Federal Environmental Laws Are Needed
Over two hundred organizations from thirty countries raise concerns with Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
Environmental assessment law for a healthy, secure and sustainable Canada: a checklist for strong environmental laws
Federal Government’s Environmental Assessment Agenda Risks Public Health and Safety, Invites Environmental Disaster
SOPAC Framework on Deep Seabed Mining Will Disenfranchise Pacific Peoples
Superficial Review of Canadian Environmental Assessment Act Cannot Sustain Public Confidence or Produce Real Results
Indigenous leader asks CIDA, World Vision and Barrick not to pursue joint CSR project in Peru
CIDA Subsidizes the Corporate Social Responsibility of Multinational Mining Companies
Raging Grannies Sing the CEAA Blues
ACTION ALERT: Canada’s Environmental Assessment Law Is Under Attack
Video: Co-author presents study "Searching for Gold in the Highlands of Guatemala: Economic Benefits and Environmental Risks of the Marlin Mine”.
Wahgoshig First Nation (Ontario) Wins Injunction Against Solid Gold Resources' Exploration
Submissions to the House of Commons Environment Committee on the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act (CEAA) 7-Year Review
Newsletter 31: Autumn 2011 - PDF version
Surviving a Mine: Canada’s Uranium District and the Western Mining Action Network Conference 2011
Indigenous Rights and Mining – Recent Developments, Opportunities and Challenges
Ghana's Golden Deception
Whose development? Mining, local resistance and development agendas
Parliamentary Review of Canadian Environmental Assessment Act Abruptly Terminated
Philippine Province Bans Open Pit Mining – Affects TVI Pacific’s Operations
Federal Decision Ignores First Nations and Public Input: Likely to Hinder Development in Ontario’s “Ring of Fire”
Occupying Spaces Created by Conflict: Anthropologists, Development NGOs, Responsible Investment, and Mining
Barrick's Tanzanian project tests ethical mining policies
Northern Ontario First Nation Calls On McGuinty to Stop Mining Activity on Sacred Burial Sites
International Organizations Protest Against the Criminalization of Environmental Defenders in Ecuador
Canadian Mining and the Costs to Workers: Notes on the El Cubo/Local 142 Strike, 2010-2011
Algonquins Oppose Quebec Mining Act and Proposed Changes in Bill 14
Gustavo Gómez: Contamination and Corruption
Gustavo Gómez: The Alumbrera Mine – A Case in Point
Gustavo Gómez: Corporate Donations to Universities
Gustavo Gómez on the Right to Protest
Gustavo Gómez: Need for an International Tribunal to Address Environmental Crimes
Argentine Prosecutor Gustavo Gómez on the Prosecution of Environmental Crimes
Innu Forced to Protest Cap-Ex Ventures’ Exploration Activities
Like Water for Gold in El Salvador
International Call to Halt Criminalization of Environmental Defenders in Honduras
AFN Chiefs join Tsilhqot’in in opposition to rebid Prosperity Mine project
Support the Work of MiningWatch Canada
Murder in El Salvador Calls Canadian Mining Interests Into Question
ACTION ALERT: Student Anti-Mining Activist Assassinated in El Salvador – Call on the Attorney General and the Minister of Security to Investigate!
Newsletter 30: Spring 2011 - PDF version
Crossroads on the Tundra: Baker Lake struggles under pressure to allow uranium mining
Courting Justice: Victims of mining abuses sue in Canada
Mining Mongolia: Ivanhoe, T-shirts, NGOs, and Wikileaks
Affected Communities from the Americas Demand that Canadian Mining Industry Respect Their Rights
Canadian Government Abdicates Responsibility to Ensure Respect for Human Rights
Indigenous Papua New Guinea Leaders Protest Ongoing Abuses at Barrick’s Porgera Mine
Communities in Argentina and Chile Protest While Barrick Gold’s Shareholders Meet in Toronto
Barrick’s Porgera Joint Venture Mine – Neither Sustainable, Nor Development
Tax Evasion in Zambia: NGOs File Complaint Against Glencore, First Quantum for Violation of OECD Guidelines
MiningWatch to Participate in Kiggavik Uranium Project EIS Guidelines Workshop, Government of Nunavut Consultations on Uranium Mining
First Anniversary Update on Complaint filed with RCMP over Canadian Mining Company’s Apparent Involvement in Mexican Corruption Case
CIDA Subsidizes Mining’s Social Responsibility Projects
Environmental Organizations Call On Parliament to Extend Debate on Environmental Bill of Rights
Human Rights Report Confirms Rapes by Security Guards at Barrick Mine in Papua New Guinea
Comments on the draft UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights
Urgent Action: Protect Vital Wetlands in Colombia from Canadian Mining Project
Delegation Hasn't Addressed Quebeckers' Concerns About Uranium
Bill C-300: Hope for the future
Submission to the House of Commons Standing Committee on International Trade on the Canada-Panama Free Trade Agreement
Green Budget Coalition Releases Self-Financing Recommendations for 2011 Federal Budget
Administrative Tribunal Sides With Communities of Northern Costa Rica, Annuls Infinito Gold's Mining Concession
Federal Panel Reviews: An Essential Tool for Evaluating Complex and Controversial Mining Projects
MiningWatch has a new Latin America Program Coordinator!
Bill C-300 a High Water Mark for Mining and Government Accountability
Class Action Filed Against Anvil Mining by Congolese Victims
Canada To Get Environmental Bill of Rights?
Environmental Assessment – Federal Role Under Fire
Federal Decision on Proposed Prosperity Mine: First Nations’ rights and fish-filled lakes not for sale to the mining industry
Vale’s Billion Dollar Bonus – Another Example of EDC’s Faulty CSR
And we thought we had it bad! Visitors from NWT shocked by Ontario’s lack of oversight for mineral exploration
Sandy Pond Alliance Launches Legal Challenge
Teztan Biny (Fish Lake) Spared: Federal Government Acknowledges Negative Effects of Controversial Mine and Upholds Responsibility to First Nations
Vote on Bill C-300 Signals Strong Momentum Towards Regulation of Canadian Mining Industry Overseas
Letter from 39 Latin American Human Rights Organizations Supporting Bill C-300
Suppressed Report Confirms International Violations by Canadian Mining Companies
Declaration in Defence of Wirikuta
El Salvador: Tribunal Convicts Marcelo Rivera's Killers
Political contributions, DFO letters, raise more questions about BC’s approval of bad mine
Military Coups, Mining & Canadian Involvement in Honduras
The Innu Takuaikan Uashat Mak Mani-Utenam Restate the Facts: Labrador Iron Mines' Schefferville Project Still Requires Our Consent
Environmental Organizations Raise Concerns About Changes to Federal "Comprehensive Study" Environmental Assessments
Lakes, Liabilities, and Legacies - The Real Impacts of "Modern" Uranium Mining
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
Newsletter 28: Summer 2010 - PDF Version
Federal Government Moves Quickly to Bypass Supreme Court Ruling, Undermine Environmental Assessment
Participation in Prosperity Panel Review Pays Off – Process Shows Value of Rigorous Environmental Assessment
Support for Mining Over Democratic Principles in Papua New Guinea
Corruption and Oppression in Chiapas, Mexico
Bill C-300 Goes to a Vote this Fall – We Need Your Support!
Open Letter Regarding the Socio-economic Costs and Benefits of the Proposed Prosperity Mine
Urgent Action: Shooting of Community Leader Opposing Goldcorp Inc.'s Marlin Mine in Guatemala; Threats Against Local Leaders Escalate
Urgent Action: Support legislation to impose standards on Canadian government support for mining companies operating internationally
Guatemala Suspends Marlin mine - Human rights and environmental organizations applaud the decision, urge President Colom’s government to protect communities against retaliation
Judge Rules that Canadian Ambassador Slandered Documentary Video Maker – Both Ambassador and Canadian Government ordered to pay almost $10,000 in damages and costs
Mining projects in Schefferville: Newfoundland and Labrador government undermining Innu rights
Testimony on Bill C-300 at Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, June 8, 2010
OAS Human Rights Commission Urges Suspension of Mining Activity at Goldcorp's Marlin Mine in Guatemala
MiningWatch Joins Environmental Groups Demanding Changes to Canadian Environmental Assessment Act Be Removed from Budget Bill
Environmental Groups Nationwide Demand that Parliament Remove Attacks on Environmental Protection from Budget Bill
Canadian Ambassador Sued for Defaming Documentary Film Maker Steven Schnoor
International Community Calls for Fair and Impartial Ruling in Marcelo Rivera Murder Case - Organizations in U.S. and Canada continue to worry about impunity in environmentalist's murder
Andalgalá community wants Canadian company Yamana Gold to cease operations
Mongolian NGOs Appeal to the UN’s Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Business and Human Rights to Resolve Oyu Tolgoi Mine Dispute
Canadian Fact-finding Delegation Discovers Mexican Community Devastated by Mining Activities of Blackfire Exploration
Government Sidesteps Supreme Court Ruling on Environmental Assessment - Budget Bill Ignores Court Instruction to Streamline Process
Make the Canadian Mining Industry More Accountable
Groups File Documentation with RCMP on Canadian Mining Company’s Involvement in Mexican Corruption Case
Two Million Tonnes a Day - A Mine Waste Primer
Blackfire adding threats to injury in Mexico: Canadian mining firm looks to pocket $800 million via NAFTA Ch. 11
Supreme Court of Canada Gives Public a Voice on Major Industrial Projects – Court Ensures Meaningful Environmental Assessments Across Country
Newsletter 27: Winter 2009-2010 - PDF Version
Editorial Note: Apologies for the Hiatus
MiningWatch Celebrates Ten Years of Making the Connections
MiningWatch Intervenes in Federal Environmental Assessment of Controversial Prosperity Project
Quebec Coalition Celebrates First Anniversary
Nova Scotia Legislates Uranium Ban – Sort Of.
MiningWatch to Examine Quebec Uranium Project
The Cordillera del Condor – Ecuador and Peru Turn On Their Own Peoples
Focus on Mining Giant Vale at World Social Forum
Another Protester Against Pacific Rim Mining Corporation's El Dorado Project Assassinated in El Salvador - Second Community Activist Killed in Less Than a Week
Canada-Ecuador: When Stock Exchanges Fuel Human Rights Violations
Second Anti-Mining Activist Killed in El Salvador
El Salvador's National Coalition Against Metallic Mining Condemns the Murders of Ramiro Rivera and Felícita Echeverría
Urgent Appeal: Write to Barrick Gold to Protest Refusal to Reinstate Union Leader
Mining and Jewelry Industry Self Certification System Falls Short
Documents Show Corruption and Intimidation by Canadian Mining Firm Blackfire in Its Mexican operations – Ottawa Must Investigate Immediately
Victory for KI an Expensive Lesson for Ontario
A “Free for All” As Mining Claims More Than Double In Carbon-rich Ecosystem - Public Interest Groups Call For Land Withdrawals To Ease Pressure
Guatemalan Community Leaders ask Canadian Government to Investigate Human Rights Violations Allegedly Committed by Goldcorp Inc. at Marlin Mine
Mexican Activist Murdered for Opposing Canadian Mining Company - Killing Sparks Protest at Canadian Embassy in Mexico City
Urgent Action: Stop Murders and Threats Against Mexican Activists Fighting Mining Abuses in Chiapas
Mexicans Celebrate End of New Gold Inc.’s Cerro de San Pedro Mine - Criminal and civil proceedings to begin against company management in Mexico and Canada
Dangerous Levels of Arsenic Found Near Tanzania Mine
Mexico To Shut Down New Gold’s Cerro de San Pedro Mine - Canadian Parliamentarians and Mexican Congress members urge company to comply with the law
Cracked Houses in San Miguel Ixtahuacan, Guatemala: The Marlin Mine Influence
Canadian Company Accused of Disobeying Court, Misleading Shareholders - Citizens’ group argues New Gold violated disclosure rules in a complaint lodged with BC Securities Commission
Mining & Health: A Community-Centred Health Assessment Toolkit
Passing of Innu Leader Daniel Ashini Lamented
Environmental groups take Feds to the Supreme Court — Canada’s highest court hears case defending public participation in environmental reviews
Land and Conflict: Resource Extraction, Human Rights, and Corporate Social Responsibility - Canadian Companies in Colombia
BC Government Breaks the Law - Nak’azdli vows to stop Mt. Milligan mine
Activist Accused of Affecting Canadian Company Freed in Chiapas, Mexico
Urgent Action: Threats and Violence Against Community Leaders in Cabañas, El Salvador
URGENT ACTION: Bill C-300 – Corporate Accountability for the Activities of Mining, Oil or Gas Corporations in Developing Countries
Urgent Action: Kidnapping of Opponent of Canadian Mines in Chicomuselo, Chiapas, Mexico
Another Three Year Delay for Environmental Assessment of Mining in Ontario
Canadians ask federal government to halt ratification of Canada-Peru Free Trade Agreement in light of Peruvian police massacre of Indigenous protesters
Action Alert: Canada must halt free trade agreement with Peru after violent police crackdown of Indigenous protest
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Impact of Mining on the Environment
Coal - Overview
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Abandoned Mines - Overview
Panamanian Organisations and Communities Unite Against Open-Pit Mining
Federal Court Ruling To Stand - Mine Waste Toxins To Be Reported
MiningWatch Appeals to U.N. over Human Rights Abuses Related to Barrick Mine in Papua New Guinea
Mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Indigenous Leaders from Papua New Guinea, Chile Raise Serious Human Rights and Environmental Concerns Around Barrick Gold Operations
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Court Victory Forces Canada to Report Pollution Data for Mines
Amnesty International Issues Action Alert on Bill C-300
What Role for Canada in the Americas? Corporate Accountability and the Extractive Industries
Government Squanders Opportunity to Hold Extractive Companies to Account
Norwegian Pension Fund Excludes Barrick Gold on Ethical Grounds
Mining Watchdog Says Environmental Assessment Key to Rebuilding Economy: “Don’t bulldoze our future in the rush for ‘shovel ready’ projects!”
MiningWatch's Recommendations for the 2009 Budget and Stimulus Package
Canada’s Toxic Mine Tailings Secret Goes to Court: Information on toxic pollution from mines being hidden from public
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Newsletter 26: Autumn 2008 - PDF Version
Supreme Court To Hear Red Chris Case
All Eyes On Ontario Mining Act Reform
Legal Action Against Barrick Gold in Nevada
Petaquilla: Panamanian Rainforest, Communities Threatened by Mining
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Fight for Public Involvement in Environmental Assessment Heads To Supreme Court: First Time Environmental Group Granted Leave to Appeal to Supreme Court of Canada
Letter to Shareholder Group re: Human Rights Impact Assessment for Goldcorp's Guatemala Mine
IUCN Assembly Opposes Mining In Central America
Pacific Rim Files Notice of Intent to Seek CAFTA Arbitration
Canoe Creek Band Condemns BC Environmental Assessment Decision
Thanksgiving the “Cortez” Way - U.S. Ignores Western Shoshone Objections – Barrick Gold Readies Itself to Carve Up Mount Tenabo
Alert to Investors re: Petaquilla Minerals and the Molejón Gold Mine in Panama
State of Mine: The Dominion Newspaper's Special Issue on Mining
Presentation to Deep Sea Mine Tailings Placement Conference
Tell Prime Minister Stephen Harper to stop blocking other countries’ right to know about the dangers of asbestos
Unreleased Report Forecasts Water Troubles
Fulfilling the Premier’s Vision to Modernize and Reform the Ontario Mining Act
MiningWatch Canada Response to Ontario Government Announcement: "Protecting Ontario's Northern Boreal Forest"
Canada’s Valuable Fresh Water Is Not for Dumping Toxic Wastes - with Background
MiningWatch Comments on Proposed Amendments to Fisheries Act Regulations to Designate Sandy Pond and Include Hydromet Facilities
URGENT ACTION: Stop Canadian Lakes from Becoming Mine Waste Dumps!
Federal Court of Appeal Denies Requirement for Public Participation in Environmental Assessment
First Ever in Latin America: Mining Corporation Charged with “Crimes Against the Environment” in Argentina
Federal government denies need to consult public on major mining projects: Ruling will test strength of revised environmental assessment law
Barrick Gold’s Porgera mine in Papua New Guinea linked to grave human rights abuses, environmental impacts
Boreal Forest’s Wildlife and Communities Threatened by Impacts from Exploration, Mining – Revised 'Boreal Below' Report
Investing in Conflict - Public Money, Private Gain: Goldcorp in the Americas
Publication of Congo mining contract review welcome; renegotiations should be fair and transparent
Groups call for comprehensive reform of Ontario’s outdated mining laws: Courts being used to punish people who peacefully oppose mining projects
A Matter of Conscience
MPP Randy Hillier and MP Scott Reid Letter of Support for Ardoch Algonquins and Bob Lovelace
Union of BC Indian Chiefs Support Ardoch Algonquins' Human Rights
"Watershed" - New Documentary on Barrick Gold's Pascua Lama Project in Chile
Lack of Respect, Indifference Mark Ontario's Treatment of First Nations' Concerns
Algonquin Leader Faces Jail Time While Ontario Government Ignores the Law
Jailing Aboriginal Leaders to Promote Uranium Mining in Ontario
Congo Mining Contract Review: Fast Track or False Trail? DRC Government needs to clarify review process to restore trust
Judge Reserves Sentencing in Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug Free Entry Case
Ardoch Algonquin First Nation Statement on Uranium Issue
NGOs fear that Congolese mining contract review process has been hijacked: Time for authorities in Europe, North America to act
Aboriginal Leaders Face Jail Time in Spreading Disputes over First Nations Rights and Mining Claims - Consultation and Conservation Demands Conflict with Outdated Mining Law across Canada's Boreal Forest
Landowners Blockade Excellon Resources' Platosa Mine in Durango, Mexico After Company Fails to Respond to Demands
Xstrata Faces Growing Criticism Over Koniambo Nickel Project in Kanaky-New Caledonia
Uranium Still a Hot Topic Across Canada
Conversations with the Earth: A Community Arts Project in Sudbury
End Mining’s Privileged Access to Land! Communities Across Canada Outraged by Free Entry System
Newfoundland Government Rejects Environmental Impact Statement for Nickel Plant
Government Prepares to Permit the Destruction of More Lakes by Mining: MiningWatch Canada Submits Environmental Petitions to Auditor General
Environmental Aspects of Phosphate and Potash Mining
MiningWatch Canada Policy Statement on Uranium Mining
Environmental Commissioner of Ontario Calls for Major Overhaul of Mining Act
Urgent Appeal to United Nations Special Rapporteurs Regarding Human Rights Abuses at Porgera Mine
Open Letter to His Excellency President Martín Torrijos Espino
Breaching Indigenous Law: Canadian Mining in Guatemala
International Appeal for the Publication of the Final Report of the Ministerial Commission on the Review of Mining Contracts in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Lawsuit exposes Canada’s toxic tailings secret: Groups say feds flouting law, hiding mining pollution from public
"Mining Investors" resource available
Summary Review of Skye Resources’ Technical Report on an Update to the Fenix Project, Izabal, Guatemala
Bring Gramma Home! Hunger striker demands end to uranium exploration and mining in Eastern Ontario
Federal Court Halts Red Chris Mine: MiningWatch Canada Wins Precedent Setting Decision
Ecuador: Government Shuts Down Ascendant Copper’s Junín Project
Kemess North Mine "Not in the Public Interest": Environmental Assessment Panel
Goldcorp Analysis
Organizations Call On Glencairn Gold to Disclose Pollution Risks at Suspended Mine in Costa Rica
Takla First Nation Blocks Access to Traditional Territory
Frequently Asked Questions
Algonquins Demanding Moratorium on Uranium Exploration on Traditional Territory
Concerned Citizens of Michipicoten Bay
Guatemala: Recuperating the Land that Belongs to Us
MiningWatch Responds to the National Post
Discrimination against the Subanon of the Philippines in the context of large-scale gold mining on their ancestral domain.
Kwale Dispatch: Investigating Tiomin Resources' Criminal Activities In Kenya
Request for Solidarity and Support: Highest Turkish Court Closes Canadian Eldorado
Honduras: Demonstrators Push for a New Mining Law
Ascendant ordered to stop community relations at Junin Project, loses major investor
Canadian Mining Investment in Southeast Ecuador Exacerbates Divisions, Conflicts
Prime Minister’s Controversial Visit to Santiago: Time for Barrick Gold, But Not for Communities
MiningWatch Responds to Ecuadorian Letters
Government to Sacrifice More Canadian Lakes to the Mining Industry
The Intolerable "No" and the "Must-Win" Mine
Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug: Our Home and Native Land
Federal Court Hears Case Against BC Open-Pit Copper and Gold Mine - Federal Government Allowed Mining Company to Avoid Full Environmental Assessment
Resistance to Ascendant Copper's Junin Project continues in Ecuador
The New El Dorado by Tibor Kocis
Our Story: Uranium Prospecting in our Backyard
Luck of the Draw: Carlos Zorrilla visits North America
Central American Countries Protest Canadian Government's Role in Mining
Dirty Business, Dirty Practices: How the Federal Government Supports Canadian Mining, Oil and Gas Companies Abroad
Barrick's Dirty Secrets: Communities Protest Gold Mining Impacts Around the World
Washington DC Protest Says Canada Asbestos Policy "Crime Against Humanity"
Canadian Mining in Mexico: Made in Canada Violence
Ecuador’s Toisan Range Threatened by Copper Mining Project - Immediate Action Needed on Roundtable Report
An Important Step Forward: The Final Report of the National Roundtables on Corporate Social Responsibility and the Canadian Extractive Industry in Developing Countries
Argentina: Famatina Says NO to Barrick Gold
Declarations of Oruro Gathering on Environmental Justice and Mining in Latin America
Ascendant Copper Agrees to Curtail Activities in Ecuador
Groundbreaking Report on Mining, Oil and Gas Companies Released: Civil Society and Industry Representatives Agree on Good Overseas Practices
Mining Is Inherently Unsustainable
Canadian Ambassador to Guatemala Accused of Misinformation - Open Letter to the Canadian Government
Halifax Initiative Publishes Canadian Mining Map
Mining Association Responds to Critique of Mining Information Kit for Aboriginal Communities
Mexican Environmental Group Files Complaint with Commission for Environmental Cooperation
Billions, Millions, and the Peasant
Canadian Mining Company Set to Destroy Mexican Heritage Village
Watchdogs Call For Immediate Ban on Mine Waste Dumping
Uranium Mining in Canada – Past and Present
Follow Up Letter to Skye Resources re: Fenix project
Response from Skye Resources re: Fenix project
Uranium Mining and its Impact on Laguna Pueblo: A Study Guide for an Interdisciplinary Unit
Beneath the Surface: Aboriginal Rights and Mining Law in British Columbia
Newsletter 24: Winter 2006-2007 - PDF Version
Blockade of Tránsito Valley Continues Despite Arrests – Chile
Jamaican Bauxite Environmental Organization Wins Restoration of Alcan Tailings Pond
Uranium Hype Hits Indigenous Opposition Globally, Provokes Conflict in the North
Communities Divided Over Uranium Exploration in the Outaouais
Why is Québec the mining industry’s favourite province?
This Is What Development Looks Like: Skye Resources and Land Reoccupation in Guatemala
Mining Investors and the Tax System
Community Leaders from Indonesia, Guatemala, New Caledonia, and Canada Discuss Struggles Against Inco
Declaration of the Water Carnival - Conay, Chile
Ontario Attacks Aboriginal and Treaty Rights in Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (KI) Litigation
Transboundary Watershed Alliance Calls For Bi-National Assessment of Taku Mine: Fishery Too Valuable for Experiment With Unproven Technology
Urgent Action and Update: 48 Arrested at Pascua Lama Blockade, Chile
Digging for Potash, Mining Companies Encounter An Iron Will
Opposition Surges to Romanian Gold Project Propaganda
Violent Evictions at El Estor, Guatemala
Violent Evictions at El Estor, Guatemala
Mining’s “Bad Actors” May Finally be Held to Account
Laguna Pueblo Indian Reservation Case Study: Jackpile-Paguate Mine, New Mexico
Mineral Policy Institute Case Study: Russia
An Insult to Aboriginal People: A Critique of the Mining Information Kit for Aboriginal Communities Published by NRCan, PDAC, MAC and CAMA
Consolidated Rutile Ltd. in Sierra Leone
Organisations Challenge Ascendant Copper’s Claims Regarding Junín Mining Project
Urgent Action in Support of the Civilian Population of Zamora Chinchipe, Ecuador
The Need to Shift Canadian Tax Incentives
Ascendant Copper Ordered to Cease Work: New Web Site Documents Events in Intag, Ecuador
Conflicts Over Canadian Mining Firm Ecuacorrientes in Zamora, Ecuador
There Are No Clean Diamonds: What You Need to Know About Canadian Diamonds
Costa Rican Constitutional Court Upholds Cancellation of Crucitas Gold Mining Permit
Urgent Action: Repression Against Residents, Leaders and Civil Authorities of Morona Santiago and Zamora Chinchipe, Ecuador
An Insult to Aboriginal People: A Critique of the Mining Information Kit for Aboriginal Communities
Declaration of the Indigenous World Uranium Summit
Transnational Mining Tribunal: The Case of Barrick Gold Corporation in Latin America (Chile, Argentina and Peru)
This is My Homeland: Stories of the effects of nuclear industries by people (Review)
Submission to Joint Panel Review on Kemess North Mine, BC
Gitxsan ask that Kemess North hearings be suspended
Arrest Warrant Against Ecuadorian Environmentalist Revoked
Land Conflicts in El Estor, Izabal, Guatemala & the Rights of the Maya Q'eqchi' People
The Social Licence to Mine: Passing the Test
Carry On Polluting: Canada profits from global sales of killer asbestos, pursues 'de facto' ban at home
Citizens' Tribunal to Pass Judgment on Barrick Gold
NDP Condemns Conservatives for Granting Big Mining Companies Green Light to Kill Lakes
Raid on Ecuadorian Activist's Home: Letter to Foreign Affairs Minister Peter MacKay
Intag Demonstration Against Ascendant Copper - video
Landlords and Political Traps: how mineral exploration companies seek access to First Nations territory
US Citizen Linked to Transnational Mining Company Ascendant Copper Infiltrated Demonstration, Now Presents False Accusations Against Intag Community Leader
Report of CEDENMA Visit to Santa Rosa, Intag
First Nations Speak at Kemess North Hearings Under Protest: Call on Governments to Protect Environment and Act Honourably
Raid on Ecuadorian Activist's Home: Letter to Ecuador's Minister of Government and Police
Final Results of Public Referendum on Cerro de San Pedro/San Xavier Mines Released
Raid on Ecuadorian Activist's Home: Letter to Ascendant Copper
Detailed and Truthful Account of What Happened on the 17th of October in Intag, Ecuador
Newsletter 23: Summer/Autumn 2006 - PDF Version
Vannessa Ventures Drops Defamation Charges Against Costa Rican Environmentalist
PBI-Canada Delegation to Guatemala Witnesses Struggle for Lake Izabal
Kanak-led Opposition to Goro Nickel Widens in New Caledonia
Life Before Profit! Development and Peace Kicks Off Two Year Campaign on Mining
TVI Pacific Again Implicated in Forced Evictions at its Canatuan Project in the Philippines
Roundtables on Corporate Social Responsibility and Canada’s Extractive Sector Wrapping Up
Ontario Mining Action Network meets in Sault Ste. Marie
Outrageous! Most mines in Ontario escape meaningful environmental assessment.
Mining-related films at Planet In Focus Film Festival, Toronto
Environment Canada Flings Door Wide Open to Toxic Dumping in Canada’s Lakes
New Book: "Reverse Anthropology: Indigenous Analysis of Social and Environmental Relations in New Guinea"
Urgent Action: Police Raid Home of Ecuadorian Environmentalist
Aluminium Backgrounder
Mining-related Films at Planet In Focus Film Festival, Toronto
Panel Recommends Alcan Bauxite Project in India Be Abandoned
Letter to Skye Resources re: Fenix project
25 Communities of Chalatenango Create a Symbol of their Resistance to Mining Companies
Environmental Impacts Fact Sheet
Canadian Mining Law and the Impacts on Indigenous Peoples Lands and Resources
Analysis of Platinex Inc. v. Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug First Nation case
MiningWatch Canada Files Complaint About Misrepresentation to Investors by bcMetals
Grandmother Arrested at Iskut Blockade
Chalatenango Communities Say ‘No’ to Mining Before Salvadoran Legislative Assembly
First Nations Hold Ceremony, Vow to Protect Amazay (Duncan Lake)
Will Ascendant Copper Be Stopped in its Tracks?
Assessment of the Rosia Montana Environmental Impact Assessment Report with a focus on water and water quality-related issues
Mining Video - "No Significant Environmental Effects"
Dangerous Contamination Levels in Siria Valley demonstrated by independent study
Where did the mining companies' ethics go?
Ontario Securities Commission asked to investigate Platinex
Statement to Glamis Gold Shareholders from Honduras and Guatemala
From San Félix to Rodeo: A Letter for the Resistance
Ontario First Nation Wins Injunction to Halt Mining Company
Groups Call for Action on Cyanide Spills by Multinational Gold Mine in Ghana: International Cyanide Management Institute urged to immediately audit Cyanide Code signatory Golden Star Resources’ Bogoso/Prestea mine in Ghana
Civic Corruption Control Commission Investigates Non-Compliance in Intag Mining Project
Newsletter 22: Spring 2006 - PDF version
Mining's Privileged Access to Land Under Challenge Across the Country
BHP-Billiton Recognizes Diamond Workers
Iskut Women Stop Mining Company from Destroying Trout Spawning Stream
Amended Metal Mining Effluent Regulations Published - Two Lakes in Newfoundland to be Destroyed by Mine Waste
Political Assassinations Increase Sharply in Philippines; Links to Mining Opposition
Indigenous Kanaks Take On Inco in New Caledonia
Chain Letter Brings Attention to Pascua Lama Struggle
MiningWatch Participates in Roundtables on Corporate Social Responsibility, Canadian Extractive Sector in Developing Countries
MiningWatch Canada and Canary Institute Reach Out to Youth
New Book: Community Rights and Corporate Responsibility: Canadian Mining and Oil Companies in Latin America
Ascendant Copper Confronted with Globalized Resistance Movement
Fish Are Our Gold Mine: Backgrounder on Northern Dynasty's Proposed Pebble Mine
Papua New Guinea Conducts Flawed Investigation of Killings at Barrick Mine
More Troubles for Ascendant: Ecuador's Ombudsman Intervenes in the Junín Case
The Bemidji Statement on Seventh Generation Guardianship
The Real Blunder of Pascua Lama
Gold Rush Threatens Sacred Headwaters in Northern BC - Environmental Assessment of Copper-Gold Mine Denies Public Rights
Far North Peoples Walk 2100 Kilometres to Say No to Mining
Pascua Lama Project Approved Despite Environmental and Indigenous Rights Concerns
Diaguita People, Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs Sign Accord
Canadian Roundtables on the Extractive Industries
Issues of Concern re Aur Resources' Proposed Duck Pond Mine in Central Newfoundland - Updated
Campaign against Barrick Gold's Pascua Lama project
Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug First Nation Says Ontario Mining Act Unconstitutional
Northern Ontario First Nation Facing $10 Billion Lawsuit for Blockading Platinex Mining Exploration
Refuting Industry Claims That Chrysotile Asbestos Is Safe
De Beers Accused of Ruining Spring Goose Hunt - Muskrat Dam
Intag deals a deadly blow to Ascendant Copper Corporation's plans
Comments on Regulations Amending the Metal Mining Effluent Regulations - Canada Gazette Part 1, Vol. 140, No. 14, published April 8, 2006
Federal Budget renews tax subsidy encouraging investment for new mines in remote areas
“No Means No to Ascendant Copper in Ecuador” Campaign Launched: Communities Call for Cancellation of Canadian Mining Company
Goro Protestors Face Judge Today: Demonstrators Pledge Support for Ongoing Indigenous and Environmental Struggle Against Mine
Thai Villagers Threatened with Arrest for Opposing Potash Mine
Urgent Action Required: Stop the Government of Canada from Turning Two Newfoundland Lakes into Mine Waste Dumps
Environmental Failures at Inco's Goro Mine Reinforce Kanak Concerns
The Proposed Pollution of Two Lakes in Central Newfoundland
Ontario Taxpayers Unprotected from Potential Costs of Cleaning Up $584 Million of Contaminated Sites at Inco and Falconbridge Operations
Newsletter 21: Winter 2005-2006 - PDF version
Kinross Gold and Katanga Mining: Part of the Pillage of the Democratic Republic of Congo?
National Pollutant Release Inventory Drops Exemption for Mining
The Legacy of Asbestos Mining in Newfoundland
Two Trout and Salmon Lakes in Newfoundland Slated for Destruction by Mine Waste
Urgent Need to Investigate Respiratory Impairment of Hemlo Miners
The Mining Controversy: An Awareness and Education Kit for Ontario Grade 7
Chalatenango Communities Step Up Resistance to Au Martinique
Inco’s Goro Site Blockaded Again by Indigenous Kanaks: French Troops Respond with Violent Action
From San Marcos to Colombia: The Regional Integration of Gold and Bullets
Green Budget Coalition Recommends Strategic Spending Cuts
Issues of Concern Regarding Aur Resources' Proposed Duck Pond Mine in Central Newfoundland
Mayan Organisations and Supporters Demand the Closure of the Marlin Mine in San Marcos, Guatemala
Ha tlatgi ha kustiyi: Protecting the Taku Tlingit Land-based Way of Life
Acid Mine Drainage: Mining and Water Pollution Issues
The Kam Kotia Mine Disaster: Ontario's most notorious mine waste problem
More Precious Than Gold: Mineral Development and the Protection of Biological Diversity in Canada
Letter to Foreign Affairs Minister Peter MacKay re: Kinross-Forrest Joint Venture in D.R. Congo
Wiradjuri Nation Opposes Barrick Gold at Lake Cowal
Urgent Action: Mining companies to end support for community-based laboratory analysis of uranium tailings in the Serpent River
Chalatenango Communities Remove Last Traces of Mining Project
Open Letter to Chilean President Ricardo Lagos Opposing Approval of Pascua Lama Project
Environmental Groups, First Nations Oppose Dumping of Toxic Mine Tailings into Salmon Waters
The Challenge of the Mines: The Role of Stakeholder Engagement in the Sustainable Development of Tanzania's Gold Mining Sector
Update from Alburnus Maior
Chalatenango: Communities Threatened by Mining Project Plan to Retake Their Land
"Canadian Mining Companies in the Developing World" - Presentation to Engineers Without Borders' 5th Annual Conference
Voluntary Corporate Standards Fail Again: Environmental Organizations Withdraw Complaint Against Ascendant Copper
MiningWatch Canada Comments on EIS for Kemess North project
Newsletter 20: Autumn 2005 - PDF version
Ascendant gets a rough ride in Ecuador, can’t get picked up in Toronto
Guatemalans Present Demands to World Bank President re: Marlin Mine
Barrick Gold Faces Determined Opposition at Pascua Lama and Veladero
Funds to Pay for Intervention on Proposed Kemess North Mine in BC
Regulating Canadian Mining Companies Operating Internationally - October 2005 Conference
Ensuring the fox has streamlined access at the henhouse: the federal Smart Regulation initiative.
MiningWatch welcomes Susan Murdock as Resource Development and Administrative Coordinator
Tensions Explode Around Canadian Mining Operation in Ecuador: Residents Torch Building
Technical Review of the El Dorado Mine Project Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), El Salvador
Ontario Auditor-General slams Mines Ministry over failure to protect the public
Ontario Mining Action Network Comments on Proposed New Ontario Mineral Development Strategy
Takla First Nation Wants Protection of Amazay Lake on Prime Minister’s Agenda
Pembina Institute publishes report on the untold story of Alberta's oil sands
Annual Day for Industry to Mine Canadians’ Pockets: Mining Association of Canada Takes to the Hill Amidst Growing Criticism
Water Is More Precious Than Gold: The Pascua Lama Binational (Chile-Argentina) Mining Project
First Nations Declare a Moratorium on Mining Exploration and Forestry in the Far North: No Means No
BC First Nations Oppose Mining Company's Plan to Destroy Lake
Regulating Canadian Mining Companies Operating Internationally: background documents
Government fails to take action: Human rights and environmental abuses abroad go unchecked
Legal Experts and Prominent Canadians Call for Tougher Stance on Corporate Conduct Abroad
MiningWatch to Hold Roundtable on Regulating Canadian Mining Companies Operating Internationally
Philippine Province Sues Canadian Mining Giant Placer Dome
Philippine Province Files Suit Against Placer Dome – Background
Urgent Action Over Attack on Guatemalan Trade Unionists
Protests and Blockades Continue Against Inco in Indonesia
CAO Marlin Mine Assessment: Technical Responses
Letter from Auki Tituaña, Mayor of Cotacachi County, Ecuador to the British Columbia Securities Commission
Mining Concessions in Guatemala
Save Indonesia's Protected Forest Areas from Mining
"Spare our homeland" rainforest tribes plead with B.C. mining giant
Government and Community Demand Placer Dome Out of Borneo
Elliot Lake Uranium Mines
Hundreds of Q’eqchi’ Mayans Protest Skye Resources' Nickel Exploration Licence
Newsletter 19: Summer 2005 - PDF version
Urgent Action – Stop the Canadian Government from Supporting the Rosia Montana Gold Mine
The Betrayal of Environmental Assessment
Sacrificing Another of Canada's Lakes to Mining
New Caledonia: International Nickel Symposium
Tailings Wash-out Results in Deaths in Jamaica
African Initiative on Mining, Environment & Society (AIMES) Meets in Lusaka
Protected Areas: Testifying Before Indonesia's Constitutional Court
Book Review: The Profits of Extermination: How U.S. Corporate Power is Destroying Colombia by Francisco Ramírez Cuellar
North American Indigenous Peoples Mining Summit, July 27-30, 2005
News from MiningWatch Canada
Peter McCaslin Responds to Asia Pacific Resources' Criticism
A Mineral-Efficient Future
New from the Canary Institute: "Mining Closure Plans: Your Right to Know!"
New from the Canary Institute: "Understanding Mining Rights in Ontario"
Mineweb: Ghana winds up for enviro-mining clash
Canadian Mining Companies Destroy Environment and Community Resources in Ghana
Effects of Mining on Women’s Health in Labrador West
From Paradise to Toxic Wasteland: Oxfam Report Exposes a Canadian Mining Company’s Lack of Corporate Accountability in Philippine Island Mining Disaster
Leaked Review Slams World Bank Over Canadian Mine in Guatemala
Internal Review Slams World Bank Over Lapses at Guatemala Mine - Backgrounder
ILO Investigates Claim Charging Violation of Convention 169 Regarding Skye Resources’ Guatemalan Nickel Project
Newsletter 17: Autumn 2004 - PDF version
MiningWatch Board Meets in Yellowknife
Yukon Pushes Weakened Reclamation Policy
Kemess: British Columbia First Nations Organise to Protect Amazay (Duncan Lake) from Mine Waste
Fisheries Act Regulations Under Review
Victor Diamond Mine Undergoes Environmental Assessment
Representatives from Siocon, Southern Philippines, Oppose Canadian Mining Company TVI Pacific
TVI Faces Social, Political and Environmental Risk in the Philippines: Indigenous Subanon, Muslims, and Other Residents of the Town of Siocon in the Philippines Align Against Canadian Mining Company TVI
Philippines-Canada Exchange on Controversial TVI Pacific Mine
Police Violence Against the Peoples of Kashipur Must Stop Immediately!
Kashipur Alert: Sixteen Tribals, Mostly Women, Critically Injured - Massive Lathicharge on Adivasis: Tense Standoff Between Agitated Tribals and Police in Kashipur
Report from the Third International Women and Mining Conference in India
"Plainspeak" analysis of Supreme Court decision on Taku River Tlingit case
Taku River Tlingit Still Fighting for Land Use Plan
Québec Asbestos Victims Address Tokyo Conference
Glamis Gold Accused of Violating Indigenous Rights
New Publications from the Canary Institute
Placer Dome at Centre of Growing Controversy in the Philippines over Submarine Tailings Disposal (STD)
Newsletter 16: Spring/Summer 2004 - PDF version
Kanak Delegation from New Caledonia Addresses MiningWatch Annual Meeting
Lynn Lake and Marcel Colomb First Nation Meet with Manitoba Government
Cree Cultural Perspective on the Natural World – Mike Koostachin
Backgrounder on Placer Dome in Marinduque, Philippines
Mine Wastes Still Not Toxic – According to the Federal Government
The Taxman Needs to Help Shift from Mining Virgin Materials to Recycling
Philippine Congressman takes on Placer Dome
Wheaton River Profits from Destruction at Bajo La Alumbrera, Argentina
Cameco Comes Under Fire for Mismanagement at McArthur River Uranium Mine
Statement of the Africa Initiative on Mining, Environment, and Society (AIMES) Meeting in Accra, Ghana
Announcing the Canary Institute
Open Letter to Guatemala's President, Mining Minister and Skye Resources
In Memoriam: Roch Lanthier
Book review: "Africa’s Blessing, Africa’s Curse: The Legacy of Resource Extraction in Africa"
Book review: "In the Way of Development"
Ascendant Copper Threatens Ecuador Cloud Forest
Two Killed So Far Protesting Glamis Gold in Guatemala
Sulawesi Communities Reject Inco, Call for Renegotiation of PT Inco's Contract of Work
Indonesian Environmentalist Highlights Inco Dangers in Sulawesi
Victor Mine Environmental Assessment Decision Delayed
Getting Smelter Toxins Under Control
Diamond Rush in Manitoba
Teck-Cominco Pursuing Garbage for Highland Valley Mine
Ontario Mining Action Network: For responsible and better-regulated mining in Ontario
The Legacy of Greenstone Resources in Nicaragua
Abandoned Mines Liability Tops $1 Billion: Watchdog Presents Action Plan to Federal Ministers
Environmentalists challenge government to give Canada's children a birthday gift: Federal Contaminated Sites Program needed
Environmentalists Decry "Arthur Andersen" Approach to Toxic Accounting
Indigenous Kanaks Blockade Inco’s Goro Site, Demand Hearing from Inco, Government Authorities
Community Centred Health Research and Impacts of Mining on Women in Labrador West (Wabush/Labrador City)
Yukon Faces Renewed Mining Problems
Newsletter 18: Winter/Spring 2004-2005 - PDF version
Backgrounder: Bulyanhulu
Asia Pacific Resources Responds to Peter McCaslin
Parliamentary Committee Challenges Government on Overseas Mining - Canadian Company Seeks Millions for Conflict-Ridden Mine in Ecuador
Mining in San Juan, Argentina: Lawsuit for threats and damages
Parliamentary Committee Wants the Government of Canada to Stop Supporting Destructive Mining Projects Overseas!
Goro Nickel Project Risks Growing Opposition from Unions, Kanak Representatives, Politicians, and Environmental Groups
Comments on the Comprehensive Study Report on the Victor Diamond Mine at Attawapiskat
Report of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade: "Mining in Developing Countries -
DeBeers in Manitoba
Staking a Claim in Manitoba
Abandoned Mines in the Yukon - Background
Mining Watchdog Rips Fisheries Department: Releases Document Showing Wilful Disregard for Fish and Fish Habitat
Asbestos in Canada - Background
Mine Closure and Environmental Plans
Mineral Exploration in Nitassinan: A Matter of Respect. Innu Nation Guidelines for the Mining Industry
Impact and Benefit Agreements
Land Rights
DeBeers' Victor Diamond Project in Attawapiskat
Ontario and Abandoned Mines
Bring the Ontario Mining Act into the 21st Century
Giant Mine - Background
WACAM Condemns the Shooting of Peaceful Demonstration by the Military and Police in Prestea
Anvil Mining and the Kilwa Massacre, D.R. Congo: Canadian Company Implicated?
MiningWatch Canada responds to threat of a libel and defamation suit
Help protect Ecuador from Ascendant Copper Corporation
Presentation to the Constitutional Court of Indonesia Regarding Mining and the 1999 Forest Act
Thai Mining Conflict Feared Fatal
OECD Complaint Against Ascendant Copper: Canadian and Ecuadorian Organizations Allege Vancouver-based Ascendant Copper Breached International Corporate Responsibility Standards in Biodiversity Hotspot
BAPE Releases Report on Niocan
Somboon Mining Project: A Failure of Democracy in Thailand
Canadian Mining Companies Investments in Peru: The Tambogrande Case and the Need to Implement Reforms
Urgent Environmental Alert: Protect the Glaciers of the South of the World!!
Pascua Lama Background
Letter from Heller Ehrman to Ascendant Holdings
Canadian Laws Inadequate - ICUCEC Refused Leave to Appeal McClean Lake Court Case
Statement by TWN-Africa at a Press Conference on Campaign Around the Liquidation of Bonte Gold Mines Limited
Death Threats in Guatemala Against Community Leaders Opposing the Mining Operations of Glamis Gold, a Canadian/U.S. Mining Company
Killing of Alvaro Benigno Sanchez by Security Guards Working for Glamis Gold Subsidiary in Guatemala
Letter to MiningWatch Canada from TVI Pacific
New Country, Same Story: Review of the Glamis Gold Marlin Project EIA, Guatemala
Letter from the Mayor of Cotacachi Cantón, Ecuador, to the Toronto Stock Exchange (unofficial translation)
Communities of Cerro Pelado, Barcelona, El Triunfo, and Junín; Parishes of García Moreno and Peñaherrera, Cantón Cotacachi, Province of Imbabura, Ecuador Oppose Mining Project
Development for Whom? The Foundations of Corporate Social Irresponsibility
OMAN Summary - PDF
Tahltan Elders Statement “Dena nenn Sogga neh ’ine” (Protectors and Keepers of the Land)
Tahltan Elders Declare a Moratorium on Resource Development Within Their Territory
The Assault on First Nation Lands in British Columbia
Elders with e-mail -- government and industry take note
Mineral Investors Claim Huge Northern Stake
Open Letter on Pollution from Base Metal Smelters
We Want to Make Teck Cominco Accountable: Tlazten Nation
High Stakes, Hard Lines Pose Threat to Peace in Udorn Thani
Letter to Toronto Stock Exchange re: Ascendant's Estimates of Junín Reserves
A Brief History of Resistance to Mining in Intag, Ecuador
Ascendant Holdings Sues Local Newspaper for Libel: Asking One Million Dollars in Damages
Recent History of the Ongoing Struggle by Kanak People to Make Inco Respect Their Rights
Failure to Disclose Material Risk: Are you aware of how Glamis Gold Limited operates in Central America? Is your investment truly "Low Risk"?
Open Letter: Canadian mining around the world
The Public Has a Right to Know the Toxins Produced by Mining
Comments on the Proposed Tulsequah Chief Mine Project in Northwestern British Columbia, FEAI 36077
First Nation Cries Foul Over Claim Staking
Canadian Government Supports Canadian Mining Companies in Guatemala
Glamis Gold, Canadian Government, World Bank Implicated as Two Killed, More Injured Protesting Mine in Guatemala - Standoff Ends in Bloodshed, Death
Declaration by the Coordinadora Nacional de Organizaciones Campesinas (CNOC)
40 Days of Protest Against Glamis Gold's Marlin Mine in Guatemala
Report on Mining in Guatemala
Letter from Cotacachi Mayor Auki Tituaña Opposing Mining Activities in the Intag Region of Ecuador
Urgent Action: Campaign against Barrick Gold’s Pascua Lama mining project and the “moving” of two glaciers.
Brutal Police Action on Tribals in Kashipur: Orissa Government Using Police Force to Start Alumina Plant
Mayan National Congress Declaration: “Mining Licences in Mayan Territory: Yet Another Form of Foreign Invasion”
When Mining Doesn’t Work: Towards Sustainable Mining Communities
Romanian Government Does Not Support Proposed Mine at Rosia Montana
Proposed new smelter pollution rules do little to protect health or the environment
Letter from Leigh, Day & Co.
Comments on the Environmental Assessment of the Victor Diamond Project
Statement by WACAM on the Cyanide Spillage by Bogoso Gold Limited
Anticipating Surprise/Assessing Risk: Making Sense of Gabriel's Intentions
Bad News for Flin Flon: Anglo to Sell Hudson Bay Mining and Smelting to OntZinc.
First Nations Coalition Wants Northgate to Justify Its Mining Proposal Against Their Interests
Environmental Disaster at Misima Mines Continues... Misima Landowners in Port Moresby to Seek Justice
Trouble in Paradise: Placer Dome Leaves Legacy of Destruction on Tiny Pacific Island
Kemess North Mine Expansion - Amazay (Duncan Lake)
Understanding Mining Taxation in Canada
Mining Myths: A Presentation to the Citizens' Mining Advisory Group
Pure Water Is More Precious Than Gold
Musselwhite Mine (Goldcorp/Kinross Gold) - Background
No Rock Unturned: Revitalizing the Economies of Mining Dependent Communities
After the Mine: Lynn Lake, Manitoba
Inco’s Mineral Concessions in Guatemala Violate International Agreements and Peace Accords
INCO Violates Fundamental Rights of New Caledonia's Indigenous Kanak People - Kanak Leaders Visit Shareholders' Meeting
Inco Targeted at Annual Shareholders’ Meeting – Representatives from Communities Around the World Affected by Inco Gather in Toronto
Massive mobilization and march to urge Alcan executives and shareholders to pull out of a destructive mining project in Kashipur
BACKGROUNDER: Cheviot Mine
Conservation Groups Call On Federal Government and Teachers to Act Quickly Over Cheviot Coal Mine
Canada Told to Stop Obstructing Safety Information on Asbestos: Ban Asbestos Network Calls For 'Prior Informed Consent'
Brazil Reverses Position, Moves to Ban Asbestos
Environmentalists Commend Goodale’s Commitment to Contaminated Site Cleanup
Paramilitaries Guarding Canadian Mine Shoot Protestors in Philippines
OECD Governments Fail to Investigate Corporate Role in Congo War
Newsletter 15: Winter 2003-2004 - PDF Version
Finally - Funding for Contaminated Sites
Exporting Death: Asbestos and Canada
Risk First, Safety Last
Colombia Dismantles State Mining Company to Destroy Union, Open Way for Transnational Corporations
Glamis Gold Demands $50 Million Compensation for Not Destroying Quechan Nation Lands
International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group Holds Public Forum
World Social Forum Comes to Mumbai
"Overburdened" Women's Health Project: In Search of a Pilot Community
First Nations Meet with Conservation Groups to Protect the Boreal Forest
Mining Companies Try to Duck Liabilities at Old Uranium Mines
Diamonds in Northern Ontario: Fighting for Responsible Mining
Nahanni Park and the Prairie Creek Mine: A Disaster Waiting to Happen
Asbestos and Canada
Cluff Lake Decommissioning Project: Comments on the Comprehensive Study Report
A Disaster Waiting to Happen: Prairie Creek Mine - PDF
Action Alert: Stop Intimidation of Brazilian Labour Inspector Fernanda Giannasi
Background information: Brazilian Justice?
Mining in Russia
Undermining Our Future: How Mining’s Privileged Access to Land Harms People and the Environment
Declaration on the Investment of Multinational Corporations in Colombia and Against the Elimination of MINERCOL, the State Mining Company of Colombia
Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN) Comments on the Scoping of the Environmental Assessment of DeBeers' Victor Project at Attawapiskat on James Bay
Mushkegowuk Tribal Council Comments on the Scoping of the Environmental Assessment of DeBeers' Victor Project at Attawapiskat on James Bay
MiningWatch Canada Comments on the Scoping of the Environmental Assessment of DeBeers' Victor Project at Attawapiskat on James Bay
Northwatch Comments on the Scoping of the Environmental Assessment of DeBeers' Victor Project at Attawapiskat on James Bay
Newsletter 14: Autumn 2003 - PDF Version
Victory in Tambogrande!
McClean Lake Appeal to be Heard at Last
Nuclear Safety Commission Allows Flooded Collins Bay Pit to be Opened to Wollaston Lake
Global Day of Action Against Inco
DFAIT-Sponsored Philippine Delegation has Mining Tour in Canada
Ruling on Private Land in Ontario
Demonstration Outside Noranda Headquarters
Niobium Mine at Oka Closer to Operation Despite Widespread Protest from Local Residents
Progress on Abandoned Mines
Falconbridge Granted Permit to Pollute the Groundhog River
Stopping the Rosia Montana Gold Mine
Indigenous Rights Still Under Attack from Canadian Mining Company in the Philippines
Western Mining Action Network Conference
Senate Passes $260-Million-a-Year Bonanza for Mining, Oil and Gas
United Nations Whitewashes Canadian Mining Companies Operating in Democratic Republic of Congo
Major Gold Project Implodes in Peru: Community Succeeds in Opposing Controversial Gold Mine
ALCAN Juggling with the Futures of Marginalized Peoples in India: Three Villagers Already Killed by Violent Repression
Background on CanTung Water Licence
CanTung Closes: NWT Mine Reclamation Policy Shown to be Farce
Another Northern Mine Closes - Taxpayers Likely Stuck with Clean-up Costs
The winners of the 2003 Dirty Digger Awards have been decided
Romania's Latest Gabriel Resource Rebel: The Orthodox Church
European Protests Mount Around Canadian Gold Project in Romania
Presentation before the Senate Banking, Trade and Commerce Committee on Bill C-48 Regarding the Taxation of Industry and Natural
Mining in Canada: The Bigger Picture
Creation and Worship are not for Sale
Newsletter 13: Summer 2003 - PDF Version
Ontario First Nations Sign Declaration to Protect Rights and Interests on Traditional Territories
BC and Canada Get Failing Grade on Taku River Protection
Canadian Asbestos: A Global Concern
Noranda Retracts Environmental Impact Statement for Alumysa Aluminum Smelter in Chile
Citizens of Oka Gain Support in Opposition to Niobium Mine
Nishnabe-Aski Nation Hires Mining Coordinator
Placer Dome’s Exploration in Indonesian Protected Area Opposed
Ontario: The Old Mining Act Works!
Kanak Leaders Maintain Pressure on Inco in New Caledonia
New Web Site to Raise Awareness About Inco’s Health Impacts in Port Colborne
Asbestos Mining in Canada: Presentation
Landmark 'no-go' pledge from leading mining companies
Communiqué issued by the Rhéébù Nùù Committee
Noranda Faces Tough Opposition: Chilean President against Noranda's Proposed Aluminum Smelter in Patagonia
Increased Human Rights Abuses Around TVI Pacific's Philippines Operation
Letter of Opposition and Demand to Halt Gold Mining Exploitation by PT Meratus Sumber Mas
Federal Government Proposal Gives Mining, Oil and Gas Industries $260 Million/Year Gift at Taxpayers’ Expense
Controversial Romanian Gold Mine Plagued by Troubles – Canadian Company Involved
Rhetoric vs. Reality: Investing as if Human Rights Mattered
Newsletter 12: Spring 2003 - PDF Version
MiningWatch Canada Annual Meeting
First Nations Leaders Gather in Thunder Bay to Discuss Mining Issues
Towards a New Approach for Minerals Stewardship
Chilean Activist Builds Solidarity with Canadian Noranda Workers, Students, and Politicians
Citizens Stand Up to Niobium Mine in Oka
Cheviot Mine Proposal on Hold: Action Alert!
New Kenyan Government Holds Tiomin to Account
Three Communities Protest at Placer Dome AGM
High Level Kanak Delegation Visits Canada
Overburdened: Understanding the Impacts of Mineral Extraction on Women's Health in Mining Communities
Thai Government Reviews Granting Mining Lease to Canadian Potash Company - Hundreds of Villagers Visit Industry Ministry
High Volatility in Gabriel Resources' Management Team
Esquel, Argentina Rejects Mining Proposal
INCO Closes Goro Nickel for Financial Review; Kanak leaders call for opening negotiations
Grand Council of the Crees (Eeyou Istchee) Pledges Its Support to the Kanak People of New Caledonia
Meridian Gold's Toxic History in the USA
Newsletter 11: Winter 2002-2003 - PDF Version
Taku River Threatened by Renewal of Tulsequah Chief Project
Interest Strong in Mining Subsidies Report
Fraser Institute Report on mining-friendly jurisdictions
National Orphaned/Abandoned Mines Initiative (NOAMI)
More Protection for Yukon Fish: Placer Authorisation To Be Phased Out
Yukon Environmental and Socio-economic Assessment Act a Step Backwards
NRCan's Minerals and Metals Indicators (MMI) Initiative
Technical Work on Arsenic in Mining
TVI Under Fire in the Philippines
Thai Villagers Blockade Asia Pacific Resources
Canadian Companies Accused of Pillaging Congo — United Nations Report
Bitter Strike Ends at Black Hawk's El Limón Gold Mine in Nicaragua
Noranda's Alumysa Aluminum Smelter Threatens Chilean Environment
Local Citizens, Ancient Forests in Argentina Threatened by Meridian Gold
Economic Revitalisation of Mining Affected Communities
Mining Industry Criticism of "Looking Beneath the Surface: An Assessment of the Value of Public Support for the Metal Mining Industry in Canada" — A Response from the Authors
Will Rising Closure Costs Sink Placer Dome?
Project for Ecological Recovery - letter to International Finance Corporation (IFC)
Beneath the Surface - Ontario government response
Seven Deadly Secrets: What Export Development Canada does not want you to know: Canadian Companies May Be Wreaking Havoc with Taxpayers' Support
Human Rights Advocate Jailed in Tanzania — Please Write Letters!
Thousands of Thai Villagers Protest Canadian Potash Mine
Toxic Spill Out of Control; Fishing Banned
BC Snubs High Courts and First Nation to Approve Tulsequah Chief Mine -- Federal Approval Unlikely
Mine Spill in Greece Leaves Red Streak of Pollution in Scenic Bay
Stop portraying mining as the bogeyman: Riposte to "Beneath the Surface"
Submission to Parliament re: The Yukon Environmental and Socio-Economic Assessment Act
LEAT Responds to CAO Bulyanhulu Report
Newsletter 10: Autumn 2002 - PDF Version
"Strengthening Our Voices: Leadership Conference on Canadian Mining Held in Winnipeg, October 4-6
Current Curriculum Project Underway
"Looking Beneath the Surface" Report Released on Real Costs of Mining
Auditor-General Exposes Abandoned Mines/Contaminated Sites Crisis
Get Mining Included on the National Pollutant Release Inventory!
Tanzania: World Bank Did Not Exercise "Due Diligence" at Bulyanhulu
Good News from Greece: Stratoniki Citizens Win Against TVX Gold
Thailand: Canadian Potash Company Faces Opposition
New Caledonia: Inco Faces Protests, Delays
Romania: World Bank Rejects Controversial Gold Mine Project
Voisey's Bay Nickel Company (VBNC) Refuses Site Access to MiningWatch Canada
Letter to the Editor of the National Post, November 4, 2002 — full text
Provincial and Territorial Governments Ignore Economic Trends: Mining Industry Strikes Gold — In BC and Yukon Taxpayers' Wallets
Ontario mining industry strikes gold - in the taxpayers' wallet
Looking Beneath the Surface: An Assessment of the Value of Public Support for the Metal Mining Industry in Canada
Canada's mining industry strikes gold - in the taxpayers' wallet: Federal taxpayers spend $13,000 for each mining job
Environmental groups urge strong and immediate action on abandoned mines, contaminated sites in wake of new report
Report of the Commissioner for the Environment and Sustainable Development - Background
World Bank Rejects Controversial Gold Mine Project - Community Leaders Call on Government and Private Lenders to Oppose Rosia Montana Mining Project
The Boreal Below: Mining Issues and Activities in Canada’s Boreal Forest Region
Canadian Potash Company Faces Constitutional Hurdles, Community Opposition in Thailand
World Heritage Site Application for New Caledonia Reefs Cancelled
Images from the August 30, 2002 demonstration in Noumea
Declaration by the Kanak Indigenous People
Kanak Appeal for Aid and International Solidarity
Newsletter 9: Summer 2002 - PDF Version
"Canadian Mining Companies in Latin America: Community Rights and Corporate Responsibility" Conference Held At York University
North American Indigenous Mining Summit held at Mole Lake, Wisconsin, June 12-15
Report on Regional Mining Workshop and WSSD Prep Com IV, Bali, Indonesia, May 24-June 3
Planet in Focus: Toronto International Environmental Film & Video Festival Coming in September
Update on the Metal Mining Effluent Regulations
New MiningWatch Staff: Mel Quevillon, Regional Organizer
Fatality at Troubled Kumtor Gold Mine -- Kyrgyz and International NGOs Renew Call for Independent Environmental/Safety Audit; Coalition to Assemble Audit Team
Submarine Tailings Disposal Toolkit
NGOs Shine Spotlight on Mining Industry Abuses: Call for An End to Business As Usual in the Mining Sector - New Website, Report
Canadian Mining Companies in Latin America: Community Rights and Corporate Responsibility
Tanzanian Environmental Activists Persecuted for Speaking Out Against World Bank Group Gold Mine
Placer Dome Case Study: Marcopper Mine (Marinduque, Philippines)
Placer Dome Case Study: Porgera Joint Venture (Papua New Guinea)
Placer Dome Case Study: Golden Sunlight Mine (Montana, USA)
Mining Operations Under Residential Areas
Report of the International NGO Fact-finding Mission to Tanzania
What Really Happened at the Barrick Gold Mine in Tanzania?
The Successful Struggle Against Submarine Tailings Disposal in Marinduque, Philippines
Bulyanhulu: Special Investigative Report – The Men Who Moil for Gold
Placer Dome Case Study: Misima Mine (Papua New Guinea)
Newsletter 8: Winter/Spring 2002 - PDF Version
Canada's Auditor-General Takes On Northern Abandoned Mines
Changes to Federal Environmental Assessment Act Under Review
SPECIAL: Battling the Mining Industry on the World Stage
Mexico: Building Links
Tanzania: International Fact Finding Mission Blocked from Bulyanhulu
Abandoned Mines Working Group Formed
Inco's Goro Project Faces Environmental Challenges
Placer Dome's Ongoing Problems in the Philippines
MiningWatch Annual General Meeting Held in Vancouver
Now Available: Monitoring Your Mine Handbook
Romanian Villagers Oppose Canadian Gold Mine at Rosia Montana
Memo from Senat Coutumier to Commission of Inquiry on Goro Nickel Project
Support the Mohawks of Kanesatake - Stop Niocan!
Submission re: Bill C-19: an Act to Amend the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act
Letter to Her Excellency Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, President of the Republic of Philippines
Response from MiningWatch Canada and the Council of Canadians to the National Post article of Dec. 29, 2001 re: Barrick Gold's Bulyanhulu project
New Caledonians Demand Independent Review of INCO's Mining Plans
Tanzanian Police Raids
Newsletter 7: Autumn 2001 - PDF Version
Western Mining Activist Network Meets in Albuquerque, New Mexico
Mining's Privileged Access to Land Challenged: Bedford Mine Alert
Save the Boreal Forest
Kanak Chiefs from New Caledonia Tour Canada
African Mining Activists and Researchers Meet in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania
Making Connections in Kenya
Nishnawbe Aski Nation Invited to UN Human Rights Workshop
Mining and Water Pollution in Canada
Canadian Mining in the Philippines
Board News
Companies and Events in 1996, Bulyanhulu Area, Tanzania
Sutton Resources, Barrick Gold and Bulyanhulu: Statement from MiningWatch Canada
Canadian Resources Company Creating Conflict in Eastern Kenya
Northwatch Submission on Metal Mining Effluent Regulations
MiningWatch Comments on Proposed Metal Mining Effluent Regulations (MMER)
Submission from Canadian Environmental Network Mining Caucus members re: MMER
Report to Mines Ministers from MiningWatch Canada
Background Information on Proposed Metal Mining Effluent Regulations
Feds Fall Short on New Regulations to Protect Water from Mine Toxins – Proposed New Metal Mine Effluent Regulations Finally Published
Newsletter 6: Spring/Summer 2001 - PDF Version
Sudbury Workshop on Abandoned Mines Co-sponsored by Assembly of First Nations
National Workshop on Orphaned/Abandoned Mines Held in Winnipeg
Placer Dome Loses Porgera Environmental Committee Chair Over "Propaganda"
Reforms Introduced for Export Development Corporation
Indigenous Leader Abducted in Colombia
Colombia Mining Forum Proposes Changes to Mining Law
"The Ocean is not for Tailings" - Indonesian Conference Opposes Threat to Tropical Oceans
The "Toxic Thirteen" - Sierra Club of Canada and MiningWatch Canada Call For a Federal Contaminated Sites Program
The Curse of El Dorado - Video Available on Canadian Gold Interests in Colombia
After the Mine: Healing our Lands and Nations
Financial Options for the Remediation of Mine Sites: A Preliminary Study
Reality Check – The Globalisation of Natural Resources
TOXICanada: 13 Good Reasons to Establish A Clean Canada Fund
From Québec to Copan: Globalization and the Case of San Andrés Minas
Profiles of Some Canadian Mining Companies Operating in Africa
Drummond Reneges on Security Promises to Colombian Coal Miners Union After Murders
Mining in Remote Areas: Issues and Impacts -- A Community Primer
Manado Declaration on Submarine Tailings
Yati Bun Resignation from Porgera Environmental Advisory Komiti (PEAK)
Tribal People in India Confront Alcan Investment: Three Die
Annual General Meeting in Sudbury Sets Plans for the Future
Settlement Reached in Sudbury Falconbridge Strike
Falconbridge Strike Analysis: a Union Perspective
Kenyan Villagers Take Tiomin to Court
Royal Oak's Nasty Legacies: Colomac and Giant Mine Updates
Federal Government Creating Inventory of Contaminated Sites
Communities Organise Against Ocean Dumping
Protestors Trash Manhattan Minerals Offices and Camp in Tambogrande, Peru
Report Links Canadian Business to Paramilitary Violence in Colombia
New Book Coming Soon from MPI: The Silver Bullet: Communities Confronting Mining and Globalisation
'Honduras is worth more than gold'
More Cyanide Uncertainties: Lessons From the Baia Mare, Romania, Spill – Water Quality and Politics
One Year After Romanian Cyanide Spill, New Report Exposes Shortcomings in Industry-Government Disaster Response
Urgent Action: Support Tribal People in India Confronting Alcan Investment
Philippine Indigenous Tribe Urges Calgary Mining Company to Respect their Land Rights
Newsletter 4: Autumn 2000 - PDF Version
Community monitoring in the Yukon
Kenyans tour to raise awareness of Tiomin's strip-mining plans for titanium
New mining effluent regulations to be gazetted this fall
International workshop video released: "Our Stories Belong to That Mountain"
Sudbury Falconbridge workers out on strike since August 1
Victory against plan to dump Toronto garbage in abandoned Adams mine
Work on cleaning up abandoned mines continues
Action needed on abandoned mines: Regulations not working at Britannia
"Sustainable Development" in the Canadian Government
Workshop on Women, Mining and the Environment held in Whitehorse
Newsletter 1: Autumn 1999 - PDF Version
Canadian Mining Companies Profit from Burma's Misery
Why Ivanhoe Mines is Incorporated in the Yukon: Sanctions and the Taxation of Foreign Mining Investment in Yukon and Canada
Grave Diggers: A Report on Mining in Burma
On the Ground Research: A Workshop to Identify the Research Needs of Communities Affected by Large-Scale Mining
A Response from Tiomin Resources
Federal Timidity on Tough Regulations to Limit Mine Pollution Places Communities, Environment at Risk
Newsletter 3: Spring 2000 - PDF Version
MiningWatch hosts workshop for communities affected by large scale mining
Sulawesi activists visit Toronto, Nitassinan (Labrador) and Sudbury
Spotlight on Canadian Rôle in Relocations in Tarkwa, Ghana
Placer Dome's "sustainability" policies challenged by community activists
Philippines a Litmus Test for Placer Dome's Environmental Policy
Citizens oppose Niocan's proposed niobium mine in Oka, Québec
Communications update - Newsletter #3
Mining's Many Faces: Environmental Mining Law and Policy in Canada
Presentation to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs on Mining Issues in Central Asia
Submission to the Public Hearings on applications by Canadian United Minerals for licences to conduct mineral exploration in Tombstone Park
Submission to CEAA Regarding the Five-Year Review of the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act
Undermining the Forests. The need to control transnational mining companies: a Canadian case study
World Bank Calls for Ok Tedi Mine Closure Following Romanian Cyanide Spill - Message to BHP: Clean Up Ok Tedi; Message to Mining Industry: Stop Dumping in Rivers
Towards a Spiral of Violence? The Dangers of Privatisation of Risk Management of Investments in Africa: Mining Activities and the Use of Private Security Companies
Reckless Lending: How Canada's Export Development Corporation Puts People and the Environment at Risk
Newsletter 2: Winter 1999-2000 - PDF Version
Contamination from abandoned mines gets a higher profile
"On the Ground Research" conference getting off the ground
Environmental and human rights repercussions of Canadian mining investment in Ghana, West Africa
Canadian Environmental Assessment Act under review
Regional grants program announced
First-ever Annual General Meeting set for Toronto, March 3-5, 2000
Stopping Mining in Tombstone Park
Communications update - Newsletter #2
Abandoned Mines in Canada
Mining Association Environmental Report More Spin than Substance
Critique of the Mining Association of Canada Environmental Progress Report, 1999
Mining's Toxic Orphans: A Plan for Action on Federal Contaminated and Unsafe Mine Sites
INCO in Indonesia: A Report for Canadian People
Canadian Gold Mining Interests Involved in Police Shootings in Ghana, West Africa
Balancing the Books: The Hidden Costs of Mining
Review of the Export Development Act - Presentation to the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade
Newsletters
Innu Nation co-hosts aboriginal workshop with MiningWatch Canada
Planning for International “Real Costs of Mining” Conference
Export Development Canada taking some heat
MiningWatch Responds to Request for Help from Philippines — TVI repressing Subanen people
Natural Resources Canada pushing “sustainable development indicators” — Indicators of what?
Communications Update - Newsletter #1
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Aboriginal Communities and Mining
Innu Nation and MiningWatch Canada Host Aboriginal Workshop on Mining
Canadian Mining Company Threatens Indigenous Filipinos
Keynote Speech by Daniel Ashini - Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Aboriginal Communities and Mining
Taxpayers to Pay for Clean-Up at Northern Mines: MiningWatch Canada and Regional Organizations Call for Preventive Measures
One of World's Worst Mine Disasters Gets Worse – BHP Admits Massive Environmental Damage at Ok Tedi Mine in Papua New Guinea, Says Mine Should Never Have Opened
Response to Comprehensive Study Report - Diavik Diamond Project
The Need for MiningWatch Canada
MiningWatch Canada Activities
EMCBC Mining and the Environment Primer: Environmental Impacts of Mining
EMCBC Mining and the Environment Primer: Mineral Financing
EMCBC Mining and the Environment Primer: Taking Action
EMCBC Mining and the Environment Primer: Mineral Efficiency
EMCBC Mining and the Environment Primer: Labour
EMCBC Mining and the Environment Primer: Water
EMCBC Mining and the Environment Primer: Roads
EMCBC Mining and the Environment Primer: Mineral Exploration
EMCBC Mining and the Environment Primer: Mining and Wildlife
EMCBC Mining and the Environment Primer: Acid Mine Drainage