Africa

News release from the Tanzania Episcopal Conference (TEC), the Muslim Council of Tanzania (BAKWATA), and the Christian Council of Tanzania (CCT): A new report published by the Norwegian University of Life Sciences finds potentially life-threatening levels of arsenic around Barrick Gold’s North Mara mine in Tanzania. “If nothing is done the environment will be destroyed. It has already become heavily polluted by arsenic, cobalt and other heavy metals,” says Evans Rubara of the Christian Council of Tanzania, one of the organizations that commissioned the report.

Community Solidarity Response Toronto (CSRT) works to bring the voices and experiences of communities impacted by Canadian extractive industries to Toronto, where much of this industry is based. As Canada is a leader within the international mining industry, we recognize the pressing need for a movement within Canada to demand accountability in this sector. We also recognize that any activism related to these industries must take its direction from the impacted communities themselves.

Des organisations non gouvernementales congolaises et internationales saluent aujourd’hui la publication de l’examen des contrats miniers par le gouvernement de la République démocratique du Congo (RDC) et demandent à ce dernier de veiller à ce que la renégociation des contrats se déroule ouvertement et de manière équitable.

The Congolese government’s ‘fast track solution’ to its mining contract review may turn out to be a false trail unless it addresses civil society concerns, warns a coalition of Congolese and international non-governmental organisations (NGOs) today [1].

Joint news release: At the start of the Mining Indaba conference in Cape Town, an international coalition of non-governmental organizations warns that the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)’s mining contract review process has been hijacked. The organizations say that it is increasingly apparent that new deals are being struck behind closed doors despite the lack of completion or transparency in the review process.

"State of Mine, An Investigation of Canada's Extractive Industries", a special edition of The Dominion Newspaper, was published in November 2008 and is now available online.

A portal to groups researching and organizing around mining issues, particulary involving Barrick Gold.

(Joint news release) Congolese and international non-governmental organisations welcomed the publication of the review of mining contracts by the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and called on the government to ensure that the renegotiation of contracts is conducted openly and fairly.

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