Ghana

Thursday, February 7, 2008

Includes a resource extraction section among its 10,000 articles from alternative sources from and about Africa, plus an e-zine of original writing, all for the promotion of human rights and economic justice.

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

The streets are hardly paved with gold. Despite producing gold on an industrial scale since 1873 – over nine million ounces’ worth – the place is really not much better off than the rest of the country. Scattered chunks of tarmac are the only evidence that the main road from Tarkwa to Prestea had once been paved.

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

News release: In defence of beleaguered Minister of International Cooperation, Bev Oda, Prime Minister Stephen Harper told Parliament that the Canadian International Development Agency should give money only to “the poorest and the most vulnerable.” This is NOT what CIDA is doing.

Wednesday, July 26, 2006

[EARTHWORKSFIAN-Germany • FIAN-Ghana • MiningWatch Canada • Oxfam America • WACAM] A group of Ghanaian and international organizations is calling for greater oversight of Golden Star Resources, a multinational mining company that is responsible for causing two cyanide spills in less than two years at its Bogoso/Prestea gold mine in Ghana. The US-Canadian mining company is a signatory to the International Cyanide Management Code, a voluntary initiative for the gold mining industry intended to improve the management of cyanide at gold mines and reduce the incidents of accidents such as cyanide spills. The civil society organizations are urging the International Cyanide Management Institute (ICMI) to immediately audit the Bogoso/Prestea mine and take steps to ensure that local communities are protected from cyanide exposure. As the administrator of the Cyanide Code, ICMI is responsible for ensuring that the operations of signatories are in compliance with the code.

Thursday, October 20, 2005

On October 20, 2005, MiningWatch Canada held a round table on "Regulating Canadian Mining Companies Operating Internationally" with industry, government, and civil society representatives, including invited guests from Latin America, Africa and Asia to examine options for regulatory and/or legislative change and debate the opportunities and difficulties of moving these options forward within the current Canadian political context.

Thursday, August 25, 2005

A report by Asad Ismi on the involvement of Canadian mining companies in the pillaging of Ghana's natural resources raised the ire of Mineweb's Tim Wood. Since Mineweb has deleted it from their archive, we have reproduced his outraged editorial, which interestingly does not link to the original (footnoted) article.

Thursday, August 25, 2005

A report by Asad Ismi on the involvement of Canadian mining companies in the pillaging of Ghana's natural resources – as the Ghanaian government prepares to open forest reserves to mining. This document has raised the ire of some in the industry; see Mineweb's outraged editorial, which interestingly does not link to the original (footnoted) article.

Wednesday, June 22, 2005
Wassa Association of Communities Affected by Mining (WACAM) Press Release -- 22nd June 2005 The news that the Military and the Police opened fire on demonstrators in Prestea and Himan who had embarked on peaceful demonstration to draw attention to the negative effects of the operations of Bogoso Gold Limited ...
Monday, April 11, 2005
April 11th, 2005, Accra, Ghana The purpose of this press conference is to update the media and the public on the campaign around the sudden and reckless liquidation of Bonte Gold Mines Limited (BGM) in March 2004. As you may be aware Bonte, which holds a 30-year mining lease and was operating in Bonteso in the Ashanti region of Ghana, is a subsidiary ...
Ghana
Saturday, October 23, 2004

Wassa Association of Communities Affected by Mining (WACAM)
P. O. Box 558 Tarkwa
Tel 233 362 20137
P. O. Box c/o 1200 Tema
Tel 233 22 200585
Ghana
email: wacam@ghana.com

23rd October 2004

WACAM wishes to bring to the public notice the cyanide spillage of Bogoso Gold Limited (BGL), a Canadian company, which occurred on Saturday 23rd October 2004.