Ontario

First Nations Meet with Conservation Groups to Protect the Boreal Forest
Sunday, March 7, 2004
Members and representatives from seventeen First Nations met with nine conservation groups and others on January 28-29, 2004 in Thunder Bay to talk about how they could work together and care for the northern boreal forest in Ontario and Manitoba. Ontario and Manitoba's northern boreal forest is globally significant because it is the largest intact forest in North ...
Manitoba, Ontario, Newsletter 15: Winter 2003-2004
Mining Companies Try to Duck Liabilities at Old Uranium Mines
Sunday, March 7, 2004
Recent months have seen mining companies trying to get out of their obligations at the closed-out uranium mines in Cluff Lake, Saskatchewan and Elliot Lake, Ontario. In January, Denison Mines Limited (now known as Denison Energy) brought an application to the Canadian ...
Abandoned Mines, Ontario, Saskatchewan, Newsletter 15: Winter 2003-2004, Denison, Uranium
Diamonds in Northern Ontario: Fighting for Responsible Mining
Sunday, March 7, 2004

MiningWatch Canada, along with Nishinawbe Aski Nation (NAN), Northwatch and Mushkegowuk Tribal Council have filed highly critical comments on the plan for an environmental assessment of De Beers' Victor Project at Attawapiskat on James Bay.

Victor Project, Ontario, Diamonds, Newsletter 15: Winter 2003-2004, De Beers
Northwatch Comments on the Scoping of the Environmental Assessment of DeBeers' Victor Project at Attawapiskat on James Bay
Friday, January 23, 2004

RE: Victor Diamond Project, De Beers Canada Exploration Inc., FEAI Reference Number 40658 - Draft Guidelines for the Conduct of a Comprehensive Study and the preparation of a Draft Comprehensive Study Report dated December 12, 2003

Victor Project, Ontario, Diamonds, De Beers
Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN) Comments on the Scoping of the Environmental Assessment of DeBeers' Victor Project at Attawapiskat on James Bay
Friday, January 23, 2004

RE: Victor Diamond Project, De Beers Canada Exploration Inc., FEAI Reference Number 40658 - Draft Guidelines for the Conduct of a Comprehensive Study and the preparation of a Draft Comprehensive Study Report dated December 12, 2003

Victor Project, Ontario, Diamonds, De Beers
Mushkegowuk Tribal Council Comments on the Scoping of the Environmental Assessment of DeBeers' Victor Project at Attawapiskat on
Friday, January 23, 2004

Mushkegowuk Council is the regional organization that represents the interests of seven Cree First Nations in the James Bay Basin of North-Eastern Ontario. Besides Attawapiskat First Nation, it includes three other remote communities on the shores of James Bay: Moose Cree, Fort Albany and Kashechewan First Nations. It also includes three road accessible communities: Taykwa Tagamou (New Post), Chapleau Cree and Missanabie Cree First Nations.

Victor Project, Ontario
MiningWatch Canada Comments on the Scoping of the Environmental Assessment of DeBeers' Victor Project at Attawapiskat on James Bay
Friday, January 23, 2004

RE: Victor Diamond Project, De Beers Canada Exploration Inc., FEAI Reference Number 40658 - Draft Guidelines for the Conduct of a Comprehensive Study and the preparation of a Draft Comprehensive Study Report dated December 12, 2003

Victor Project, Ontario, Diamonds, De Beers
Ruling on Private Land in Ontario
Saturday, December 27, 2003

By Marilyn Crawford

The Mining and Lands Commissioner Tribunal has made it clear that regulations prioritize the interest of miners over the interest of property owners seeking to exercise their right before staking and prospecting can take place and to have areas exempt from mining claims.

Reforming Mining Laws and Policies, Ontario, Free Entry/Land Access
Falconbridge Granted Permit to Pollute the Groundhog River
Saturday, December 27, 2003
Falconbridge might be feeling fourth time lucky after the Ontario Ministry of the Environment's recent approval and Ontario's Environmental Review Tribunal okaying of their Plan (#4) to dump the effluent from a new copper-nickel mine into a sturgeon spawning ground in a pristine stretch of the Groundhog River. Past ...
Ontario, Newsletter 14: Autumn 2003, Noranda/Falconbridge
Ontario First Nations Sign Declaration to Protect Rights and Interests on Traditional Territories
Friday, September 19, 2003
On July 8, 2003, Chief Peter Moonias, Chief Roger Oskineegish, and Chief Dean Cromarty signed a Declaration for the Protection of Rights and Interests to the Traditional Territories of the Neskantaga First Nation, Nibinamik First Nation, and Wunnumin Lake First Nation. Addressed to the Government of Canada, the Government of Ontario, Aurora Platinum Corp., De Beers Canada Corp., Lake Shore Gold ...
Ontario, Newsletter 13: Summer 2003, Indigenous Rights, De Beers

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