Marcopper Mine

Reckless Lending: How Canada's Export Development Corporation Puts People and the Environment at Risk
Wednesday, March 1, 2000

A report published by the NGO Working Group on the EDC, part of the Halifax Initiative Coalition. Includes case studies on Placer Dome's Marcopper Mine in the Philippines and the Ok Tedi Copper Mine in Papua New Guinea, partly owned by Inmet.

Marcopper Mine, Ok Tedi Mine - BHP-Billiton/Inmet, Corporate Accountability, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Environment, Export Development Canada, Barrick Gold, Indigenous Rights, World Bank/International Financial Institutions, Inmet, Placer Dome
Review of the Export Development Act - Presentation to the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade
Tuesday, November 16, 1999

The Export Development Corporation has been brought forcefully to our attention by communities and non-governmental organizations that have to deal with the impact of Canadian mining development abroad. They want to know what role Canadian institutions play in perpetuating the problems they face, and what — if anything — Canadian citizens are doing to support them.

INCO in Sulawesi, Marcopper Mine, Ok Tedi Mine - BHP-Billiton/Inmet, Sulawesi, Kenya, Chile, Corporate Accountability, Kyrgyz Republic, Papua New Guinea, Environmental Planning, Guyana, Environmental Assessment, Export Development Canada, Peru, Barrick Gold, Human Rights, BHP-Billiton, Indigenous Rights, Cambior, Cameco, Presentations, World Bank/International Financial Institutions, Inmet, Noranda/Falconbridge, Placer Dome, Rio Tinto, Teck, Tiomin, TVI Pacific, Xstrata (Falconbridge/Noranda)

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