Communications Update - Newsletter #5

Last issue, we mentioned the workshop Gaining Ground: Women, Mining and the Environment that was held at Lake LaBerge, Yukon, last September. Well, a booklet has been published out of that workshop, and it is available from the Yukon Conservation Society, Box 4163 Whitehorse, YT Y1A 3S9, tel. (867) 668-5678, fax (867) 668-6637, e-mail ycs@ycs.yk.ca

We also jointly released a new report,"More Cyanide Uncertainties: Lessons from the Baia Mare, Romania Spill — Water Quality and Politics," together with the U.S. Mineral Policy Center. The report, by renowned geochemical and hydrogeological expert Robert Moran, exposes shortcomings in industry and government disaster response, issues a call to action to prevent future cyanide disasters, and points to the same danger at many of today's gold mines. See our press release "One Year After Romanian Cyanide Spill, New Report Exposes Shortcomings in Industry-Government Disaster Response".