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Centerra Gold: The Ugly Face of Canadian Capitalism
09.06.2021
Webinar: Green Energy, Green Mining, Green New Deal?
19.04.2021
Free City Radio interview with Jamie Kneen – Canadian Foreign Policy Institute Sessions
02.03.2021
Indigenous, Environmental Groups Call for Moratorium on Mining Development in Ring of Fire
26.02.2021
URGENT ACTION: Call on Canadian Banks to Stop Funding Conflict at the Los Filos mine
25.11.2020
Video of virtual round table: "Turning Down the Heat: Can We Mine Our Way Out of the Climate Crisis?"
19.11.2020
Audio recording of the virtual round table: "Turning Down the Heat: Can We Mine Our Way Out of the Climate Crisis?"
19.11.2020
What Do Mine Tailings Dam Disasters Teach Us?
05.11.2020
Virtual round table: "Turning Down the Heat: Can We Mine Our Way Out of the Climate Crisis?"
30.10.2020
Take Action To Protect the Ida Mountains, Turkey
30.10.2020
From Mines to Electric Vehicles: Three conditions to ensure electrification isn’t a mining disaster
23.10.2020
An Open Letter to Prime Minister Trudeau on Investor Lawsuits & COVID-19
29.06.2020
Canadian Company Threatens Biodiverse Forest in Victoria, Australia with Plans for New Gold Mine
16.06.2020
Legal Experts Call for Immediate Halt to Mineral Staking and Permitting in Ontario Under Pandemic Conditions
05.06.2020
Supreme Court of Canada Confirms Death of Zombie “New Prosperity” Mine Project
14.05.2020
COVID-19: Mining Companies Putting Workers and Communities at Greater Risk
31.03.2020
Bankruptcy Court Informed of Misleading Information in Mining Company Lydian’s Affidavit
02.03.2020
MiningWatch and JATAM Write to Vale Indonesia and Vale Canada to Support Karonsi'e Dongi Demand for Electricity
03.02.2020
Banro Corporation in the Democratic Republic of Congo
10.01.2020
Federal Court of Appeal Shuts Down Taseko Mines Over "Prosperity" Mine Rejection
20.12.2019
Selected Background Readings for "Turning Down the Heat: Can We Mine Our Way Out of the Climate Crisis?"
21.11.2019
What riches await…
01.11.2019
We Have a New Federal Impact Assessment Act. Yay.
28.08.2019
Open Letter to Prime Minister Trudeau Expresses Alarm Over Project List Under New Impact Assessment Act
02.08.2019
Mi'kmaq Matters Episode 105: Preparing for the Valentine Lake Environmental Assessment
19.07.2019
Save the Date! Announcing Our 20th Anniversary Conference – Ottawa, November 14-15, 2019
10.06.2019
Mi'kmaq Matters – Episode 99: Mining Mi'kmaq Land
14.05.2019
Talking Points podcast episode 4 - Digging for Dividends
08.05.2019
Announcing MiningWatch Canada’s 20th Anniversary Annual General Meeting
07.04.2019
Aura Minerals & Honduran Government Criminalizing 19 Azacualpa community Defenders
04.03.2019
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
Letter to the Minister of Environment and Climate Change re: development of the Project List under the proposed Impact Assessment Act
18.04.2018
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
#WeAreUofT E.19 - #WeBelieveSurvivors of Barrick Gold ft. Porgera Women's Rights Watch & MiningWatch Canada
24.04.2017
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
Of Vampires and a Zombie Mine in Transylvania
08.09.2013
Canadian Ambassadors, or Ambassadors for Canadian Mining Companies?
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
Gold and Democracy Don’t Mix – Eldorado Gold Faces Determined Opposition in Greece
02.05.2013
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
Parti Québécois Scuttles Plans to Re-open Asbestos Mines
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
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
Environmental Defenders in Danger in Mesoamerica
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
URGENT ACTION: Bill C-300 – Corporate Accountability for the Activities of Mining, Oil or Gas Corporations in Developing Countries
18.08.2009
Aur Resources - merged with Teck
05.06.2009
Uranium - Overview
04.06.2009
Mineral Sands - Overview
04.06.2009
Impact on Communities - Overview
04.06.2009
Gold - Overview
04.06.2009
After the Mine
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
Mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo
06.05.2009
B2Gold
03.05.2009
Mining in Canada
28.04.2009
Mining in Latin America and the Caribbean
26.04.2009
Mexico - background
26.04.2009
Teck Resources
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
Letter to Shareholder Group re: Human Rights Impact Assessment for Goldcorp's Guatemala Mine
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
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
Potash Mining
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
Kanak-led Opposition to Goro Nickel Widens in New Caledonia
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
07.09.2005
Protected Areas: Testifying Before Indonesia's Constitutional Court
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
Sulawesi Communities Reject Inco, Call for Renegotiation of PT Inco's Contract of Work
12.08.2005
Indonesian Environmentalist Highlights Inco Dangers in Sulawesi
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
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
Impact and Benefit Agreements
23.06.2005
Land Rights
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 James Bay
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
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
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
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