Jamie Kneen

Communications and Outreach Coordinator responsible for: strategic research, social media, and public engagement; our Africa program, environmental assessment, and uranium mining.

Blog Entries

Report One Month After the Crime-Tragedy of Brumadinho

25.02.2019

Can Slave Labour Charges Against Canadian Company Be Heard in Court in Canada? Supreme Court of Canada Hears Arguments Today

23.01.2019

Prosperity Mine Case goes to Federal Court of Appeal

14.01.2019

Canadian Copper Mine Destroying Forests in Panamian Sector of Mesoamerican Biological Corridor

28.12.2018

Catherine Coumans talks to Coop Radio's "Redeye" about the Ombuds

15.12.2018

OceanaGold Fails to Refute Report’s Critical Findings

11.12.2018

Statement by the Mesoamerican Movement in Resistance to the Extractivist Model (M4) on State-Regulated Consultations

30.11.2018

Willa Mine in Southern British Columbia – Abandoned by its Owners?

19.11.2018

MiningWatch Canada Pleased to Welcome New Latin America Program Coordinator Kirsten Francescone

10.09.2018

Porgera Stories – Justice Foundation for Porgera

06.09.2018

Women Speak Out About Abuse at Barrick Gold’s North Mara Mine in Tanzania

25.06.2018

New Report Points To Corporate Complicity in Human Rights Abuses in Eritrea as Canadian Company Goes To Supreme Court Over Allegations of Forced Labour

14.06.2018

MiningWatch Partners Join International Gathering of Women Resisting Extractivism in Montreal

27.04.2018

MiningWatch Annual Seminar – May 4, 2018

18.04.2018

Bill C-69: New Federal Environmental Review Laws Fall Short of Promises

09.02.2018

Canadian Embassy in Mexico Subject of Complaint to Public Sector Integrity Commissioner

05.02.2018

The DNI Metals Mining Project in Vohitsara, Madagascar Must Really Be Stopped!

02.02.2018

Indigenous Malaysian Forest Activists Bring Quest for Justice to Canada with Film Tour

25.01.2018

Complete and Permanent Closure of Pascua Lama: The Power of Conviction and Persistence

23.01.2018

Protect Jacko Lake and the Pípsell Cultural Area from Mining – Take Action Now!

01.12.2017

Launch of OECD Watch ‘Remedy is the Reason’ Campaign

27.11.2017

Mining “Development and Progress” Spills Blood Once Again in Guerrero, Mexico: Two more deaths on the conscience of Prime Minister Trudeau

20.11.2017

House Subcommittee Hearings on Mining in Latin America a Public Disservice

18.10.2017

Guatemalans Denounce Tahoe Resources’ Plan to “Pick Them Apart”

16.10.2017

DNI Metals Digs Itself in Deeper in Madagascar

25.09.2017

Public Statement on the 10th Anniversary of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

13.09.2017

Environmental Groups Send Letter to Ministers re: Reforming Federal Environmental Assessment Law

30.08.2017

Let’s Get It Right: It's Time to Strengthen Canada's Environmental Laws

14.08.2017

Is the Federal Government Backing Away from Environmental Assessment Reform Promises?

11.08.2017

Clean Energy and Extractivism – Does getting to sustainability require greater sacrifices?

28.06.2017

Indigenous Women Speak Out About Mining's Impacts on Women – Ottawa Event

23.04.2017

MiningWatch Annual Seminar – April 27, 2017

18.04.2017

Berta Cáceres Petition Presentation – Ottawa

04.04.2017

Experts Call for Next-Generation Environmental Assessment Law

21.03.2017

Prosperity Mine – A Precautionary Tale: The Importance of Environmental Assessments

31.01.2017

Canada Needs a Human Rights Ombudsperson for the International Mining, Oil and Gas Sectors

23.01.2017

In Memoriam: Arthur Manuel

14.01.2017

Background: MiningWatch Canada Charges Against B.C. Government and Mount Polley Mine

18.10.2016

The Chevron Case: Debate with Representatives of the Affected Communities of the Ecuadorian Amazon

13.09.2016

A North-South Dialogue on Extractivism: Resistance and Alternatives

11.08.2016

Join MiningWatch at the World Social Forum!

05.08.2016

Federal Government Opens Door to Paradigm Shift in Environmental Assessment

21.06.2016

Mining Offshore – Jurisdictions, That Is

13.05.2016

Fears of Contamination of Drinking Water of Turkey’s Third Largest City Fuel Opposition to Eldorado Gold’s Efemçukuru Mine

09.10.2015

Supreme Court of Canada Affirms International Enforcement of the Law, Allows Ecuadorans to Pursue Chevron Assets in Canada

26.09.2015

Canadian Mine Among Sites of Gross Human Rights Violations in Eritrea – UN Report

09.06.2015

MiningWatch Canada Pleased to Welcome New Team Member Diana Martin

08.06.2015

Mokopane Residents Picket Canadian High Commission in South Africa to Protest Ivanhoe Mines

21.05.2015

Canadian Embassy went too far to protect mining company interests in Mexico, critics say

25.02.2015

Discredited Fraser Institute Mining Survey Resurfaces

24.02.2015

"Mining if necessary, but not necessarily mining"

23.02.2015

“The Process Is the Punishment”: Taseko Takes Wilderness Committee to Court Over Fight to Save Fish Lake

20.01.2015

Five Years After Mariano Abarca Was Murdered for his Resistance Against Blackfire Exploration, We Demand Justice!

27.11.2014

MiningWatch Canada Newsletter #36 – Spring/Summer 2014

16.06.2014

We’re Celebrating Fifteen Years of Action in Support of Communities Affected by Mining

05.06.2014

Canadian Mining Investment Benefits Eritrea’s Repressive Regime

21.05.2014

Letter to Barrick regarding African Barrick Gold’s non-judicial “remedy programs” at North Mara, Tanzania

21.02.2014

Imagine if Canada were Open for Justice!

30.01.2014

MiningWatch Canada Newsletter #35 – Fall/Winter 2013

05.12.2013

Opposition Builds to First Quantum Minerals’ Copper Mine, Dams, and Land Grab in Zambia

29.11.2013

The Giant Mine: Will Reason Prevail?

25.10.2013

(Not) Canada's Way

21.10.2013

Of Vampires and a Zombie Mine in Transylvania

08.09.2013

Global Condemnation of Barrick’s Effort to Secure Legal Immunity from Rape Victims

04.06.2013

Canadian Ambassadors, or Ambassadors for Canadian Mining Companies?

04.06.2013

Algonquin Communities Push for Joint Review for Matamec’s Rare Earths Project Under New Federal Environmental Assessment Rules

04.06.2013

Is Mine Closure in Ontario Protecting the Public?

04.06.2013

Ontarians Still Waiting for Review of Mining Tax

04.06.2013

Alternative Mining Indaba Brings Community Perspective to South African Mining Debates

04.06.2013

Background on Eldorado Gold’s Proposed Mines in Northern Greece

24.05.2013

Preliminary Report: Gold Mining and the Defence of Water in El Salvador

22.05.2013

Barrick Under Global Pressure to Withdraw Conditions on Remedy for PNG Rape Victims

14.05.2013

Gold and Democracy Don’t Mix – Eldorado Gold Faces Determined Opposition in Greece

02.05.2013

Canada’s Development Model: Beyond Extraction

04.04.2013

New Investment Agreements Show Canadian Commitment to Africa Mining Vision a Hollow Promise

06.03.2013

MiningWatch Canada: a profile

13.02.2013

Federal Government Balking at First Small Step to Rebuild Environmental Assessment – Improved Regulations

17.12.2012

Ontario First Nations Put a Damper on Ring of Fire Development

26.11.2012

Parti Québécois Scuttles Plans to Re-open Asbestos Mines

26.11.2012

Changes Coming to National Mine Effluent Regulations

26.11.2012

Canada’s Development Aid Dollars at Odds with Communities

26.11.2012

Guatemala’s ‘Goldcorp Law’

26.11.2012

Corporations Fight Against Access to Domestic Courts for Harm Caused Overseas

26.11.2012

Ghanaian Farmers Run Out of Patience with Kinross/Chirano Gold Mines

26.11.2012

Proposed Amendments to the Regulations Designating Physical Activities Under the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act 2012

24.08.2012

Death of Evidence Rally: How Budget Cuts Will Affect Mining Issues

19.07.2012

Mining Threatens One of BC’s Largest Sockeye Salmon Runs

15.06.2012

KI Achieves Protection for 23,000 Square Kilometres; Ontario Makes Another Multi-million Dollar Buy-out

15.06.2012

Backgrounders Published on Environmental & Health Risks of Chromium

15.06.2012

Canada’s Subsidies to the Mining Industry Don’t Stop at Aid: Political Support Betrays Government Claims of Corporate Social Responsibility

15.06.2012

The Debate Over Mining and Development Continues...

15.06.2012

Communities Shouldn’t Pay To Clean Up Goldcorp’s Mess in Central America

15.06.2012

Mapping Canadian Mining in Latin America: Referendums and Risks

15.06.2012

ACTION ALERT: Budget Omnibus Bill C-38 Will Shred Canada’s Environmental Assessment Law (Among Many Other Things)

07.06.2012

Shining a Light on the Federal Government’s False Claims on Environmental Assessment and the Budget

01.06.2012

Presentation to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance on Bill C-38, the Budget Implementation Act

01.06.2012

Environmental Defenders in Danger in Mesoamerica

14.05.2012

Local Votes and Mining in the Americas

14.05.2012

ACTION ALERT: Sherritt Must Be Accountable for All Human and Environmental Damage Caused by the Ambatovy Project

02.05.2012

Goldcorp Shareholders Ask Company to Ensure Full Independent Financing and Disclosure of Closure Plans for Marlin Mine

17.04.2012

Another Mining Horror Story? Sherritt International Corporation’s Ambatovy Project in Madagascar

10.04.2012

Federal Government Hides Behind Budget with Changes to Environmental Assessment

29.03.2012

Statement Regarding Quebec Court of Appeal Decision in Canadian Association Against Impunity v. Anvil Mining Limited

21.03.2012

Mexico and Canada uphold impunity in Blackfire case

15.03.2012

Peruvians Oppose CIDA’s Joint CSR Initiative with Barrick Gold and World Vision

09.03.2012

Canadian Mining Overseas: Counter to Development Goals and Discrediting Canada

01.03.2012

Over two hundred organizations from thirty countries raise concerns with Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

21.02.2012

Superficial Review of Canadian Environmental Assessment Act Cannot Sustain Public Confidence or Produce Real Results

13.02.2012

Indigenous leader asks CIDA, World Vision and Barrick not to pursue joint CSR project in Peru

10.02.2012

CIDA Subsidizes the Corporate Social Responsibility of Multinational Mining Companies

03.02.2012

Raging Grannies Sing the CEAA Blues

26.01.2012

ACTION ALERT: Canada’s Environmental Assessment Law Is Under Attack

25.01.2012

Video: Co-author presents study "Searching for Gold in the Highlands of Guatemala: Economic Benefits and Environmental Risks of the Marlin Mine”.

05.01.2012

Submissions to the House of Commons Environment Committee on the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act (CEAA) 7-Year Review

06.12.2011

Defending land and life against an impending train wreck: Canadian mining in Colombia

04.12.2011

Surviving a Mine: Canada’s Uranium District and the Western Mining Action Network Conference 2011

29.11.2011

New Brunswickers Persevere Through Gruelling Hearings

29.11.2011

BC’s Zombie Mine – “New Prosperity”

29.11.2011

Kamloops Residents, Town, and Regional Council Seek Review Panel for Ajax Mine

29.11.2011

Indigenous Rights and Mining – Recent Developments, Opportunities and Challenges

29.11.2011

Ghana's Golden Deception

29.11.2011

Whose development? Mining, local resistance and development agendas

29.11.2011

International Organizations Protest Against the Criminalization of Environmental Defenders in Ecuador

24.09.2011

Canadian Mining and the Costs to Workers: Notes on the El Cubo/Local 142 Strike, 2010-2011

20.09.2011

Gustavo Gómez: Contamination and Corruption

15.08.2011

Gustavo Gómez: The Alumbrera Mine – A Case in Point

15.08.2011

Gustavo Gómez: Corporate Donations to Universities

15.08.2011

Gustavo Gómez on the Right to Protest

15.08.2011

Gustavo Gómez: Need for an International Tribunal to Address Environmental Crimes

15.08.2011

Argentine Prosecutor Gustavo Gómez on the Prosecution of Environmental Crimes

15.08.2011

Like Water for Gold in El Salvador

15.07.2011

International Call to Halt Criminalization of Environmental Defenders in Honduras

15.07.2011

Crossroads on the Tundra: Baker Lake struggles under pressure to allow uranium mining

06.06.2011

Courting Justice: Victims of mining abuses sue in Canada

06.06.2011

Having the Ruggie Pulled Out From Under Us: From “Sanction and Remedy” to non-judicial grievance mechanisms

06.06.2011

Outdated Mining Act Leads to Multiple Conflicts Over Exploration and Mine Development in Quebec

06.06.2011

Quebec Mining Conflicts from East to West, North to South

06.06.2011

Mining Mongolia: Ivanhoe, T-shirts, NGOs, and Wikileaks

05.06.2011

Comments on the draft UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights

31.01.2011

Urgent Action: Protect Vital Wetlands in Colombia from Canadian Mining Project

21.01.2011

Bill C-300: Hope for the future

07.12.2010

Federal Panel Reviews: An Essential Tool for Evaluating Complex and Controversial Mining Projects

23.11.2010

Bill C-300 a High Water Mark for Mining and Government Accountability

16.11.2010

Environmental Assessment – Federal Role Under Fire

15.11.2010

Federal Decision on Proposed Prosperity Mine: First Nations’ rights and fish-filled lakes not for sale to the mining industry

15.11.2010

Matoush Advanced Exploration Project Brings Uranium Debate to Northern Quebec

15.11.2010

Vale’s Billion Dollar Bonus – Another Example of EDC’s Faulty CSR

15.11.2010

And we thought we had it bad! Visitors from NWT shocked by Ontario’s lack of oversight for mineral exploration

15.11.2010

Vote on Bill C-300 Signals Strong Momentum Towards Regulation of Canadian Mining Industry Overseas

28.10.2010

Letter from 39 Latin American Human Rights Organizations Supporting Bill C-300

27.10.2010

Declaration in Defence of Wirikuta

13.10.2010

Getting Regulations Right Could Help Fix Flaws in Mining Act - MiningWatch Comment on Environment Commissioner of Ontario Annual Report

29.09.2010

Military Coups, Mining & Canadian Involvement in Honduras

23.09.2010

Lakes, Liabilities, and Legacies - The Real Impacts of "Modern" Uranium Mining

26.08.2010

Federal Government Moves Quickly to Bypass Supreme Court Ruling, Undermine Environmental Assessment

18.07.2010

Participation in Prosperity Panel Review Pays Off – Process Shows Value of Rigorous Environmental Assessment

18.07.2010

Ring of Fire: Growing Concerns About Violations of Aboriginal Rights, Environmental Damage

18.07.2010

Support for Mining Over Democratic Principles in Papua New Guinea

18.07.2010

Corruption and Oppression in Chiapas, Mexico

18.07.2010

Bill C-300 Goes to a Vote this Fall – We Need Your Support!

17.07.2010

Open Letter Regarding the Socio-economic Costs and Benefits of the Proposed Prosperity Mine

16.07.2010

Urgent Action: Shooting of Community Leader Opposing Goldcorp Inc.'s Marlin Mine in Guatemala; Threats Against Local Leaders Escalate

13.07.2010

Urgent Action: Support legislation to impose standards on Canadian government support for mining companies operating internationally

01.07.2010

Testimony on Bill C-300 at Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, June 8, 2010

08.06.2010

Andalgalá community wants Canadian company Yamana Gold to cease operations

27.04.2010

Make the Canadian Mining Industry More Accountable

25.03.2010

Editorial Note: Apologies for the Hiatus

05.01.2010

Ontario’s New Mining Act Leaves Gaping Holes

05.01.2010

The Government’s New “CSR Counsellor” for the Extractive Sector

05.01.2010

The Cordillera del Condor – Ecuador and Peru Turn On Their Own Peoples

05.01.2010

Focus on Mining Giant Vale at World Social Forum

05.01.2010

Canada-Ecuador: When Stock Exchanges Fuel Human Rights Violations

24.12.2009

Gaping Holes in Fish Habitat Safety Net – Watchdog Has Little Confidence Proposed Projects Will Achieve “No Net Loss” of Fish Habitat

03.12.2009

Mining Day on the Hill - What you should know about mining and Canadian mining companies

23.11.2009

Cracked Houses in San Miguel Ixtahuacan, Guatemala: The Marlin Mine Influence

11.11.2009

Urgent Action: Threats and Violence Against Community Leaders in Cabañas, El Salvador

21.08.2009

Sudbury Vale Inco Workers Striking to Maintain Hard-Won Benefits

18.08.2009

URGENT ACTION: Bill C-300 – Corporate Accountability for the Activities of Mining, Oil or Gas Corporations in Developing Countries

18.08.2009

MiningWatch Canada Responds to Ontario's Proposals for a Modernized Mining Act

12.06.2009

Aur Resources - merged with Teck

05.06.2009

Uranium - Overview

04.06.2009

Quarrying and Aggregates - Overview

04.06.2009

Schedule 2: Getting Around the Protection of Lakes and Rivers

04.06.2009

Mineral Sands - Overview

04.06.2009

National Pollutant Release Inventory - Overview

04.06.2009

Impact on Communities - Overview

04.06.2009

Gold - Overview

04.06.2009

Waste Rock and Tailings

04.06.2009

04.06.2009

Impact of Mining on the Environment

04.06.2009

Coal - Overview

04.06.2009

Asbestos - Overview

04.06.2009

Abandoned Mines - Overview

04.06.2009

Panamanian Organisations and Communities Unite Against Open-Pit Mining

01.06.2009

Backgrounder: Issues Related to Barrick’s Porgera Joint Venture Mine in Papua New Guinea

17.05.2009

Mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo

06.05.2009

B2Gold

03.05.2009

Mining in Ontario

28.04.2009

Mining in Canada

28.04.2009

Mining in Latin America and the Caribbean

26.04.2009

Mexico - background

26.04.2009

25.04.2009

What Role for Canada in the Americas? Corporate Accountability and the Extractive Industries

05.04.2009

MiningWatch's Recommendations for the 2009 Budget and Stimulus Package

22.01.2009

Ecuador

05.01.2009

Papua New Guinea Hosts International Meeting on Ocean Dumping of Mine Waste

04.01.2009

Meeting with Partners at Porgera Mine in Papua New Guinea

04.01.2009

Canadian Lakes and Streams at Risk of Being Converted to “Tailings Impoundment Areas”

04.01.2009

Letter to Shareholder Group re: Human Rights Impact Assessment for Goldcorp's Guatemala Mine

15.12.2008

Modernizing Mining in Ontario

15.12.2008

Pacific Rim Files Notice of Intent to Seek CAFTA Arbitration

09.12.2008

State of Mine: The Dominion Newspaper's Special Issue on Mining

17.11.2008

Presentation to Deep Sea Mine Tailings Placement Conference

07.11.2008

MiningWatch Comments on Proposed Amendments to Fisheries Act Regulations to Designate Sandy Pond and Include Hydromet Facilities

03.07.2008

Investing in Conflict - Public Money, Private Gain: Goldcorp in the Americas

04.05.2008

A Matter of Conscience

13.03.2008

MPP Randy Hillier and MP Scott Reid Letter of Support for Ardoch Algonquins and Bob Lovelace

23.02.2008

Xstrata Faces Growing Criticism Over Koniambo Nickel Project in Kanaky-New Caledonia

21.01.2008

Uranium Still a Hot Topic Across Canada

21.01.2008

Conversations with the Earth: A Community Arts Project in Sudbury

21.01.2008

End Mining’s Privileged Access to Land! Communities Across Canada Outraged by Free Entry System

21.01.2008

12.12.2007

MiningWatch Canada Policy Statement on Uranium Mining

11.12.2007

Urgent Appeal to United Nations Special Rapporteurs Regarding Human Rights Abuses at Porgera Mine

02.12.2007

Open Letter to His Excellency President Martín Torrijos Espino

30.11.2007

Breaching Indigenous Law: Canadian Mining in Guatemala

14.11.2007

Summary Review of Skye Resources’ Technical Report on an Update to the Fenix Project, Izabal, Guatemala

30.10.2007

Goldcorp Analysis

13.09.2007

Frequently Asked Questions

31.08.2007

Concerned Citizens of Michipicoten Bay

28.08.2007

Guatemala: Recuperating the Land that Belongs to Us

22.08.2007

MiningWatch Responds to the National Post

22.08.2007

Discrimination against the Subanon of the Philippines in the context of large-scale gold mining on their ancestral domain.

17.08.2007

Kwale Dispatch: Investigating Tiomin Resources' Criminal Activities In Kenya

07.08.2007

Canadian Mining Investment in Southeast Ecuador Exacerbates Divisions, Conflicts

18.07.2007

MiningWatch Responds to Ecuadorian Letters

05.07.2007

Government to Sacrifice More Canadian Lakes to the Mining Industry

25.06.2007

The Intolerable "No" and the "Must-Win" Mine

25.06.2007

Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug: Our Home and Native Land

25.06.2007

The New El Dorado by Tibor Kocis

14.06.2007

Our Story: Uranium Prospecting in our Backyard

12.06.2007

Dirty Business, Dirty Practices: How the Federal Government Supports Canadian Mining, Oil and Gas Companies Abroad

16.05.2007

Canadian Mining in Mexico: Made in Canada Violence

20.04.2007

Declarations of Oruro Gathering on Environmental Justice and Mining in Latin America

09.04.2007

Mining Is Inherently Unsustainable

03.03.2007

Canadian Ambassador to Guatemala Accused of Misinformation - Open Letter to the Canadian Government

27.02.2007

Halifax Initiative Publishes Canadian Mining Map

21.02.2007

Mining Association Responds to Critique of Mining Information Kit for Aboriginal Communities

19.02.2007

Billions, Millions, and the Peasant

13.02.2007

Canadian Mining Company Set to Destroy Mexican Heritage Village

13.02.2007

Uranium Mining in Canada – Past and Present

12.02.2007

Follow Up Letter to Skye Resources re: Fenix project

09.02.2007

Response from Skye Resources re: Fenix project

09.02.2007

Uranium Mining and its Impact on Laguna Pueblo: A Study Guide for an Interdisciplinary Unit

09.02.2007

Beneath the Surface: Aboriginal Rights and Mining Law in British Columbia

05.02.2007

Uranium Hype Hits Indigenous Opposition Globally, Provokes Conflict in the North

02.02.2007

Communities Divided Over Uranium Exploration in the Outaouais

02.02.2007

Why is Québec the mining industry’s favourite province?

02.02.2007

This Is What Development Looks Like: Skye Resources and Land Reoccupation in Guatemala

02.02.2007

Mining Investors and the Tax System

02.02.2007

Community Leaders from Indonesia, Guatemala, New Caledonia, and Canada Discuss Struggles Against Inco

02.02.2007

Declaration of the Water Carnival - Conay, Chile

31.01.2007

Digging for Potash, Mining Companies Encounter An Iron Will

29.01.2007

Violent Evictions at El Estor, Guatemala

17.01.2007

Violent Evictions at El Estor, Guatemala

17.01.2007

Laguna Pueblo Indian Reservation Case Study: Jackpile-Paguate Mine, New Mexico

08.01.2007

Mineral Policy Institute Case Study: Russia

07.01.2007

An Insult to Aboriginal People: A Critique of the Mining Information Kit for Aboriginal Communities Published by NRCan, PDAC, MAC and CAMA

05.01.2007

Consolidated Rutile Ltd. in Sierra Leone

04.01.2007

The Need to Shift Canadian Tax Incentives

19.12.2006

There Are No Clean Diamonds: What You Need to Know About Canadian Diamonds

06.12.2006

Urgent Action: Repression Against Residents, Leaders and Civil Authorities of Morona Santiago and Zamora Chinchipe, Ecuador

06.12.2006

An Insult to Aboriginal People: A Critique of the Mining Information Kit for Aboriginal Communities

05.12.2006

Declaration of the Indigenous World Uranium Summit

04.12.2006

Transnational Mining Tribunal: The Case of Barrick Gold Corporation in Latin America (Chile, Argentina and Peru)

02.12.2006

This is My Homeland: Stories of the effects of nuclear industries by people (Review)

02.12.2006

Submission to Joint Panel Review on Kemess North Mine, BC

28.11.2006

Land Conflicts in El Estor, Izabal, Guatemala & the Rights of the Maya Q'eqchi' People

19.11.2006

Intag Demonstration Against Ascendant Copper - video

02.11.2006

Landlords and Political Traps: how mineral exploration companies seek access to First Nations territory

01.11.2006

Report of CEDENMA Visit to Santa Rosa, Intag

30.10.2006

Raid on Ecuadorian Activist's Home: Letter to Ecuador's Minister of Government and Police

30.10.2006

Raid on Ecuadorian Activist's Home: Letter to Ascendant Copper

30.10.2006

Detailed and Truthful Account of What Happened on the 17th of October in Intag, Ecuador

25.10.2006

PBI-Canada Delegation to Guatemala Witnesses Struggle for Lake Izabal

24.10.2006

Outrageous! Most mines in Ontario escape meaningful environmental assessment.

24.10.2006

New Book: "Reverse Anthropology: Indigenous Analysis of Social and Environmental Relations in New Guinea"

24.10.2006

Aluminium Backgrounder

21.10.2006

Letter to Skye Resources re: Fenix project

29.09.2006

Environmental Impacts Fact Sheet

19.09.2006

Analysis of Platinex Inc. v. Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug First Nation case

15.09.2006

Mining Video - "No Significant Environmental Effects"

18.08.2006

Statement to Glamis Gold Shareholders from Honduras and Guatemala

16.08.2006

From San Félix to Rodeo: A Letter for the Resistance

15.08.2006

Mining's Privileged Access to Land Under Challenge Across the Country

19.07.2006

Indigenous Kanaks Take On Inco in New Caledonia

19.07.2006

New Book: Community Rights and Corporate Responsibility: Canadian Mining and Oil Companies in Latin America

19.07.2006

Fish Are Our Gold Mine: Backgrounder on Northern Dynasty's Proposed Pebble Mine

11.07.2006

The Bemidji Statement on Seventh Generation Guardianship

07.07.2006

The Real Blunder of Pascua Lama

06.07.2006

Canadian Roundtables on the Extractive Industries

12.06.2006

Issues of Concern re Aur Resources' Proposed Duck Pond Mine in Central Newfoundland - Updated

04.06.2006

Campaign against Barrick Gold's Pascua Lama project

01.06.2006

Comments on Regulations Amending the Metal Mining Effluent Regulations - Canada Gazette Part 1, Vol. 140, No. 14, published April 8, 2006

07.05.2006

The Proposed Pollution of Two Lakes in Central Newfoundland

18.04.2006

Kinross Gold and Katanga Mining: Part of the Pillage of the Democratic Republic of Congo?

08.04.2006

National Pollutant Release Inventory Drops Exemption for Mining

08.04.2006

The Legacy of Asbestos Mining in Newfoundland

08.04.2006

Two Trout and Salmon Lakes in Newfoundland Slated for Destruction by Mine Waste

08.04.2006

Urgent Need to Investigate Respiratory Impairment of Hemlo Miners

08.04.2006

The Mining Controversy: An Awareness and Education Kit for Ontario Grade 7

08.04.2006

Chalatenango Communities Step Up Resistance to Au Martinique

08.04.2006

From San Marcos to Colombia: The Regional Integration of Gold and Bullets

31.03.2006

Issues of Concern Regarding Aur Resources' Proposed Duck Pond Mine in Central Newfoundland

27.03.2006

Ha tlatgi ha kustiyi: Protecting the Taku Tlingit Land-based Way of Life

25.03.2006

The Kam Kotia Mine Disaster: Ontario's most notorious mine waste problem

25.03.2006

Letter to Foreign Affairs Minister Peter MacKay re: Kinross-Forrest Joint Venture in D.R. Congo

17.03.2006

Open Letter to Chilean President Ricardo Lagos Opposing Approval of Pascua Lama Project

07.02.2006

Summary of Findings from Environmental Studies of Calancan Bay related to Surface Disposal Dumping of Mine Tailings into the Bay from the Tapian Pit of the Marcopper Mine

03.02.2006

The Challenge of the Mines: The Role of Stakeholder Engagement in the Sustainable Development of Tanzania's Gold Mining Sector

29.01.2006

"Canadian Mining Companies in the Developing World" - Presentation to Engineers Without Borders' 5th Annual Conference

20.01.2006

MiningWatch Canada Comments on EIS for Kemess North project

05.01.2006

Barrick Gold Faces Determined Opposition at Pascua Lama and Veladero

21.12.2005

Regulating Canadian Mining Companies Operating Internationally - October 2005 Conference

21.12.2005

Ensuring the fox has streamlined access at the henhouse: the federal Smart Regulation initiative.

21.12.2005

MiningWatch welcomes Susan Murdock as Resource Development and Administrative Coordinator

21.12.2005

Technical Review of the El Dorado Mine Project Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), El Salvador

07.12.2005

Water Is More Precious Than Gold: The Pascua Lama Binational (Chile-Argentina) Mining Project

08.11.2005

Regulating Canadian Mining Companies Operating Internationally: background documents

20.10.2005

Philippine Province Files Suit Against Placer Dome – Background

04.10.2005

CAO Marlin Mine Assessment: Technical Responses

28.09.2005

Letter from Auki Tituaña, Mayor of Cotacachi County, Ecuador to the British Columbia Securities Commission

19.09.2005

Mining Concessions in Guatemala

14.09.2005

Elliot Lake Uranium Mines

13.09.2005

The Betrayal of Environmental Assessment

07.09.2005

Sacrificing Another of Canada's Lakes to Mining

07.09.2005

New Caledonia: International Nickel Symposium (July 2005)

07.09.2005

Book Review: The Profits of Extermination: How U.S. Corporate Power is Destroying Colombia by Francisco Ramírez Cuellar

07.09.2005

North American Indigenous Peoples Mining Summit, July 27-30, 2005

07.09.2005

Peter McCaslin Responds to Asia Pacific Resources' Criticism

31.08.2005

A Mineral-Efficient Future

27.08.2005

New from the Canary Institute: "Understanding Mining Rights in Ontario"

26.08.2005

Canadian Mining Companies Destroy Environment and Community Resources in Ghana

25.08.2005

Fisheries Act Regulations Under Review

13.08.2005

Philippines-Canada Exchange on Controversial TVI Pacific Mine

13.08.2005

Report from the Third International Women and Mining Conference in India

13.08.2005

"Plainspeak" analysis of Supreme Court decision on Taku River Tlingit case

13.08.2005

New Publications from the Canary Institute

13.08.2005

Cree Cultural Perspective on the Natural World – Mike Koostachin

12.08.2005

Backgrounder on Placer Dome in Marinduque, Philippines

12.08.2005

Statement of the Africa Initiative on Mining, Environment, and Society (AIMES) Meeting in Accra, Ghana

12.08.2005

Announcing the Canary Institute

12.08.2005

Open Letter to Guatemala's President, Mining Minister and Skye Resources

12.08.2005

In Memoriam: Roch Lanthier

12.08.2005

Book review: "Africa’s Blessing, Africa’s Curse: The Legacy of Resource Extraction in Africa"

12.08.2005

Book review: "In the Way of Development"

12.08.2005

Community Centred Health Research and Impacts of Mining on Women in Labrador West (Wabush/Labrador City)

10.08.2005

Yukon Faces Renewed Mining Problems

10.08.2005

Backgrounder: Bulyanhulu

09.08.2005

Asia Pacific Resources Responds to Peter McCaslin

02.08.2005

Critique of the Fraser Institute Mining Report 2002

13.07.2005

Report of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade: "Mining in Developing Countries -

05.07.2005

DeBeers in Manitoba

28.06.2005

Staking a Claim in Manitoba

28.06.2005

Abandoned Mines in the Yukon - Background

28.06.2005

Asbestos in Canada - Background

27.06.2005

Mine Closure and Environmental Plans

23.06.2005

Land Claims and "Modern Treaties"

23.06.2005

23.06.2005

Environmental Impact Assessments

23.06.2005

First Nations Guidelines and Consultation Processes

23.06.2005

Memoranda of Understanding (MOU)

23.06.2005

Impact and Benefit Agreements

23.06.2005

23.06.2005

DeBeers' Victor Diamond Project in Attawapiskat

23.06.2005

Ontario and Abandoned Mines

23.06.2005

Bring the Ontario Mining Act into the 21st Century

23.06.2005

Giant Mine - Background

23.06.2005

MiningWatch Canada responds to threat of a libel and defamation suit

13.06.2005

Presentation to the Constitutional Court of Indonesia Regarding Mining and the 1999 Forest Act

02.06.2005

Somboon Mining Project: A Failure of Democracy in Thailand

08.05.2005

Canadian Mining Companies Investments in Peru: The Tambogrande Case and the Need to Implement Reforms

30.04.2005

Pascua Lama Background

17.04.2005

Letter from Heller Ehrman to Ascendant Holdings

13.04.2005

Letter to MiningWatch Canada from TVI Pacific

18.03.2005

New Country, Same Story: Review of the Glamis Gold Marlin Project EIA, Guatemala

12.03.2005

Letter from the Mayor of Cotacachi Cantón, Ecuador, to the Toronto Stock Exchange (unofficial translation)

08.03.2005

Communities of Cerro Pelado, Barcelona, El Triunfo, and Junín; Parishes of García Moreno and Peñaherrera, Cantón Cotacachi, Province of Imbabura, Ecuador Oppose Mining Project

06.03.2005

Development for Whom? The Foundations of Corporate Social Irresponsibility

01.03.2005

OMAN Summary - PDF

28.02.2005

Tahltan Elders Statement “Dena nenn Sogga neh ’ine” (Protectors and Keepers of the Land)

25.02.2005

The Assault on First Nation Lands in British Columbia

23.02.2005

Elders with e-mail -- government and industry take note

23.02.2005

Open Letter on Pollution from Base Metal Smelters

21.02.2005

Letter to Toronto Stock Exchange re: Ascendant's Estimates of Junín Reserves

14.02.2005

A Brief History of Resistance to Mining in Intag, Ecuador

12.02.2005

Recent History of the Ongoing Struggle by Kanak People to Make Inco Respect Their Rights

10.02.2005

Failure to Disclose Material Risk: Are you aware of how Glamis Gold Limited operates in Central America? Is your investment truly "Low Risk"?

09.02.2005

Open Letter: Canadian mining around the world

09.02.2005

The Public Has a Right to Know the Toxins Produced by Mining

09.02.2005

Comments on the Proposed Tulsequah Chief Mine Project in Northwestern British Columbia, FEAI 36077

08.02.2005

Declaration by the Coordinadora Nacional de Organizaciones Campesinas (CNOC)

11.01.2005

Report on Mining in Guatemala

10.01.2005

Letter from Cotacachi Mayor Auki Tituaña Opposing Mining Activities in the Intag Region of Ecuador

15.12.2004

Urgent Action: Campaign against Barrick Gold’s Pascua Lama mining project and the “moving” of two glaciers.

13.12.2004

Brutal Police Action on Tribals in Kashipur: Orissa Government Using Police Force to Start Alumina Plant

01.12.2004

Mayan National Congress Declaration: “Mining Licences in Mayan Territory: Yet Another Form of Foreign Invasion”

30.11.2004

When Mining Doesn’t Work: Towards Sustainable Mining Communities

22.11.2004

Letter from Leigh, Day & Co.

17.11.2004

Comments on the Environmental Assessment of the Victor Diamond Project

28.10.2004

Statement by WACAM on the Cyanide Spillage by Bogoso Gold Limited

23.10.2004

Placer Dome and Corporate Social Responsibility

25.08.2004

Kemess North Mine Expansion - Amazay (Duncan Lake)

25.08.2004

Mining Myths: A Presentation to the Citizens' Mining Advisory Group

07.08.2004

Pure Water Is More Precious Than Gold

17.07.2004

Musselwhite Mine (Goldcorp/Kinross Gold) - Background

23.06.2004

After the Mine: Lynn Lake, Manitoba

27.05.2004

Massive mobilization and march to urge Alcan executives and shareholders to pull out of a destructive mining project in Kashipur

14.04.2004

BACKGROUNDER: Cheviot Mine

13.04.2004

Exporting Death: Asbestos and Canada

07.03.2004

Risk First, Safety Last

07.03.2004

"Overburdened" Women's Health Project: In Search of a Pilot Community

07.03.2004

Asbestos and Canada

04.03.2004

A Disaster Waiting to Happen: Prairie Creek Mine - PDF

27.02.2004

Background information: Brazilian Justice?

20.02.2004

Mining in Russia

01.02.2004

Undermining Our Future: How Mining’s Privileged Access to Land Harms People and the Environment

29.01.2004

Declaration on the Investment of Multinational Corporations in Colombia and Against the Elimination of MINERCOL, the State Mining Company of Colombia

28.01.2004

Mushkegowuk Tribal Council Comments on the Scoping of the Environmental Assessment of DeBeers' Victor Project at Attawapiskat on

23.01.2004

Northwatch Comments on the Scoping of the Environmental Assessment of DeBeers' Victor Project at Attawapiskat on James Bay

23.01.2004

Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN) Comments on the Scoping of the Environmental Assessment of DeBeers' Victor Project at Attawapiskat on James Bay

23.01.2004

MiningWatch Canada Comments on the Scoping of the Environmental Assessment of DeBeers' Victor Project at Attawapiskat on James Bay

23.01.2004

Ruling on Private Land in Ontario

27.12.2003

United Nations Whitewashes Canadian Mining Companies Operating in Democratic Republic of Congo

27.12.2003

Background on CanTung Water Licence

09.12.2003

Presentation before the Senate Banking, Trade and Commerce Committee on Bill C-48 Regarding the Taxation of Industry and Natural

05.11.2003

Mining in Canada: The Bigger Picture

29.10.2003

Canadian Asbestos: A Global Concern

19.09.2003

Ontario: The Old Mining Act Works!

19.09.2003

Asbestos Mining in Canada: Presentation

13.09.2003

Communiqué issued by the Rhéébù Nùù Committee

19.08.2003

Letter of Opposition and Demand to Halt Gold Mining Exploitation by PT Meratus Sumber Mas

25.06.2003

Rhetoric vs. Reality: Investing as if Human Rights Mattered

11.06.2003

MiningWatch Canada Annual Meeting

03.06.2003

Towards a New Approach for Minerals Stewardship

03.06.2003

Meridian Gold's Toxic History in the USA

12.03.2003

Interest Strong in Mining Subsidies Report

23.02.2003

National Orphaned/Abandoned Mines Initiative (NOAMI)

23.02.2003

NRCan's Minerals and Metals Indicators (MMI) Initiative

23.02.2003

Technical Work on Arsenic in Mining

23.02.2003

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

23.02.2003

Will Rising Closure Costs Sink Placer Dome?

14.02.2003

Project for Ecological Recovery - letter to International Finance Corporation (IFC)

03.02.2003

Beneath the Surface - Ontario government response

17.01.2003

Seven Deadly Secrets: What Export Development Canada does not want you to know: Canadian Companies May Be Wreaking Havoc with Taxpayers' Support

10.01.2003

New Caledonia Factsheet

08.01.2003

Submission to Parliament re: The Yukon Environmental and Socio-Economic Assessment Act

05.12.2002

LEAT Responds to CAO Bulyanhulu Report

02.12.2002

"Looking Beneath the Surface" Report Released on Real Costs of Mining

30.11.2002

Letter to the Editor of the National Post, November 4, 2002 — full text

04.11.2002

Report of the Commissioner for the Environment and Sustainable Development - Background

22.10.2002

Backgrounder: Asia Pacific Resources in Thailand

17.09.2002

Images from the August 30, 2002 demonstration in Noumea

30.08.2002

Declaration by the Kanak Indigenous People

23.08.2002

Kanak Appeal for Aid and International Solidarity

15.08.2002

"Canadian Mining Companies in Latin America: Community Rights and Corporate Responsibility" Conference Held At York University

14.08.2002

North American Indigenous Mining Summit held at Mole Lake, Wisconsin, June 12-15

14.08.2002

Report on Regional Mining Workshop and WSSD Prep Com IV, Bali, Indonesia, May 24-June 3

14.08.2002

Update on the Metal Mining Effluent Regulations

14.08.2002

Canadian Mining Companies in Latin America: Community Rights and Corporate Responsibility

12.05.2002

Placer Dome Case Study: Marcopper Mine (Marinduque, Philippines)

30.04.2002

Placer Dome Case Study: Porgera Joint Venture (Papua New Guinea)

30.04.2002

Placer Dome Case Study: Golden Sunlight Mine (Montana, USA)

30.04.2002

Mining Operations Under Residential Areas

25.04.2002

Report of the International NGO Fact-finding Mission to Tanzania

16.04.2002

What Really Happened at the Barrick Gold Mine in Tanzania?

16.04.2002

The Successful Struggle Against Submarine Tailings Disposal in Marinduque, Philippines

16.04.2002

Bulyanhulu: Special Investigative Report - The Men Who Moil for Gold

15.04.2002

Placer Dome Case Study: Misima Mine (Papua New Guinea)

12.04.2002

SPECIAL: Battling the Mining Industry on the World Stage

15.03.2002

Memo from Senat Coutumier to Commission of Inquiry on Goro Nickel Project

06.03.2002

Backgrounder: What's INCO doing in New Caledonia?

06.03.2002

Submission re: Bill C-19: an Act to Amend the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act

19.02.2002

Letter to Her Excellency Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, President of the Republic of Philippines

16.01.2002

Response from MiningWatch Canada and the Council of Canadians to the National Post article of Dec. 29, 2001 re: Barrick Gold's Bulyanhulu project

10.01.2002

Mining's Privileged Access to Land Challenged: Bedford Mine Alert

24.11.2001

Mining and Water Pollution in Canada

24.11.2001

Canadian Mining in the Philippines

24.11.2001

Companies and Events in 1996, Bulyanhulu Area, Tanzania

23.11.2001

Sutton Resources, Barrick Gold and Bulyanhulu: Statement from MiningWatch Canada

23.11.2001

Northwatch Submission on Metal Mining Effluent Regulations

26.09.2001

MiningWatch Comments on Proposed Metal Mining Effluent Regulations (MMER)

25.09.2001

Submission from Canadian Environmental Network Mining Caucus members re: MMER

25.09.2001

Report to Mines Ministers from MiningWatch Canada

11.09.2001

Background Information on Proposed Metal Mining Effluent Regulations

24.08.2001

The Curse of El Dorado - Video Available on Canadian Gold Interests in Colombia

20.07.2001

TOXICanada: 13 Good Reasons to Establish A Clean Canada Fund

01.07.2001

From Québec to Copan: Globalization and the Case of San Andrés Minas

25.06.2001

Drummond Reneges on Security Promises to Colombian Coal Miners Union After Murders

12.05.2001

Manado Declaration on Submarine Tailings

30.04.2001

Yati Bun Resignation from Porgera Environmental Advisory Komiti (PEAK)

27.04.2001

Tribal People in India Confront Alcan Investment: Three Die

25.03.2001

Annual General Meeting in Sudbury Sets Plans for the Future

25.03.2001

Settlement Reached in Sudbury Falconbridge Strike

25.03.2001

Falconbridge Strike Analysis: a Union Perspective

25.03.2001

Kenyan Villagers Take Tiomin to Court

25.03.2001

Royal Oak's Nasty Legacies: Colomac and Giant Mine Updates

25.03.2001

Federal Government Creating Inventory of Contaminated Sites

25.03.2001

Communities Organise Against Ocean Dumping

25.03.2001

New Book Coming Soon from MPI: The Silver Bullet: Communities Confronting Mining and Globalisation

25.03.2001

'Honduras is worth more than gold'

05.03.2001

Urgent Action: Support Tribal People in India Confronting Alcan Investment

17.01.2001

Philippine Indigenous Tribe Urges Calgary Mining Company to Respect their Land Rights

04.11.2000

Community monitoring in the Yukon

03.11.2000

Kenyans tour to raise awareness of Tiomin's strip-mining plans for titanium

03.11.2000

New mining effluent regulations to be gazetted this fall

03.11.2000

International workshop video released: "Our Stories Belong to That Mountain"

03.11.2000

Sudbury Falconbridge workers out on strike since August 1

03.11.2000

Victory against plan to dump Toronto garbage in abandoned Adams mine

03.11.2000

Work on cleaning up abandoned mines continues

03.11.2000

"Sustainable Development" in the Canadian Government

03.11.2000

Workshop on Women, Mining and the Environment held in Whitehorse

03.11.2000

Why Ivanhoe Mines is Incorporated in the Yukon: Sanctions and the Taxation of Foreign Mining Investment in Yukon and Canada

13.09.2000

A Response from Tiomin Resources

18.08.2000

MiningWatch hosts workshop for communities affected by large scale mining

23.05.2000

Sulawesi activists visit Toronto, Nitassinan (Labrador) and Sudbury

23.05.2000

Spotlight on Canadian Rôle in Relocations in Tarkwa, Ghana

23.05.2000

Submission to the Public Hearings on applications by Canadian United Minerals for licences to conduct mineral exploration in Tombstone Park

01.05.2000

Contamination from abandoned mines gets a higher profile

23.02.2000

Environmental and human rights repercussions of Canadian mining investment in Ghana, West Africa

23.02.2000

"On the Ground Research" conference getting off the ground

23.02.2000

Canadian Environmental Assessment Act under review

23.02.2000

Regional grants program announced

23.02.2000

First-ever Annual General Meeting set for Toronto, March 3-5, 2000

23.02.2000

Stopping Mining in Tombstone Park

23.02.2000

Critique of the Mining Association of Canada Environmental Progress Report, 1999

26.01.2000

INCO in Indonesia: A Report for Canadian People

07.01.2000

Balancing the Books: The Hidden Costs of Mining

22.11.1999

Innu Nation co-hosts aboriginal workshop with MiningWatch Canada

27.10.1999

Planning for International “Real Costs of Mining” Conference

27.10.1999

Export Development Canada taking some heat

27.10.1999

Natural Resources Canada pushing “sustainable development indicators” — Indicators of what?

27.10.1999

Keynote Speech by Daniel Ashini - Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Aboriginal Communities and Mining

12.09.1999

Response to Comprehensive Study Report - Diavik Diamond Project

20.07.1999

The Need for MiningWatch Canada

31.03.1999

MiningWatch Canada Activities

09.03.1999

EMCBC Mining and the Environment Primer: Mining and Wildlife

30.03.1998

EMCBC Mining and the Environment Primer: Environmental Impacts of Mining

30.03.1998

EMCBC Mining and the Environment Primer: Roads

30.03.1998

EMCBC Mining and the Environment Primer: Labour

30.03.1998

EMCBC Mining and the Environment Primer: Mineral Efficiency

30.03.1998

EMCBC Mining and the Environment Primer: Water

30.03.1998

EMCBC Mining and the Environment Primer: Mineral Exploration

30.03.1998

EMCBC Mining and the Environment Primer: Acid Mine Drainage

30.03.1998

EMCBC Mining and the Environment Primer: Mineral Financing

30.03.1998

EMCBC Mining and the Environment Primer: Taking Action

30.03.1998

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