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Canada’s Environmental Assessment Law Is Under Attack

The present Canadian government doesn’t understand or value environmental assessment any more than it understands or values sustainable development. Unless the Canadian public – not just environmental groups – takes a stand, we could lose what’s left of the federal environmental assessment process, and with it the possibility of building a coherent and consistent framework for planning for sustainable development.

Based on developments over the last couple of years, the federal government...

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Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Quebec, Monday February 6, 2012. The Coalition Québec meilleure mine (Better Mining Coalition) is appalled that federal Environment Minister, Peter Kent, has approved the Matoush uranium exploration project, despite opposition from the Mistissini Cree and the findings of a controversial review panel report from July of last year.

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Communiqué: Twenty-one Honduran environmental, indigenous and human rights organizations have issued a joint statement demanding that the Honduran government create space for real and effective debate over a proposed new mining law. They also report that the congressional commission that wrote the law has been under pressure to get it passed.

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

News Alert: Protests against Osisko Mining suggest company lacks the social licence to operate at its Famatina gold project in La Rioja, Argentina.