Corporate Social Responsibility

Miércoles, Septiembre 21, 2011

Press Release: Effective September 19th, Goldcorp has been removed from the Dow Jones North America Sustainability Index. The announcement comes in the context of ongoing allegations of human rights violations and evidence of environmental contamination in communities affected by Goldcorp’s mining activities.

Martes, Septiembre 20, 2011

Anthropologist Elizabeth Ferry reviews what took place during a recent strike at the El Cubo mine owned by Canada's AuRico Gold (formerly named Gammon Gold) near Guanajuato, Mexico. While the strike has now been resolved and most of the workers are back at work, the strike raised important issues about labour relations between Canadian mining companies and workers and surrounding communities.

Miércoles, Agosto 31, 2011

Traducción: Versión en español de la noticia original sobre el allanamiento por la Policía Montada Real Canadiense (RCMP por sus siglas en inglés) de las oficinas de Blackfire Exploration Ltd. por alegaciones de coima el 20 de julio de 2011.

Lunes, Agosto 29, 2011

News release: MiningWatch Canada, Common Frontiers, the United Steelworkers (USW), and Council of Canadians welcome news of an RCMP raid on the Calgary office of Blackfire Exploration, the privately-held company whose barite mine in Chiapas, Mexico has been in the news since the November 2009 murder of anti-mining activist Mariano Abarca.

Lunes, Agosto 29, 2011

Communiqué: The Mexican Network of Communities Affected by Mining - Chiapas chapter released a statement following revelations that the RCMP raided Blackfire Exploration's Calgary-based offices on July 20, 2011.

Lunes, Agosto 15, 2011

Argentine Federal Prosecutor Gustavo Gómez describes what he calls the cycle of corruption (círculo cerrado): companies are allowed to operate without adequate regard for the environment and subsequently use their enormous profits to ensure ever-increasing impunity. Mr. Gómez firmly believes that his office is best employed in prosecuting company directors as the intellectual authors of environmental crimes – feasible under Argentinean law, but difficult to do even under relatively progressive governments.

Lunes, Agosto 15, 2011

Argentine Federal Prosecutor Gustavo Gómez outlines five lines of investigation related to this mining operation, from environmental issues to concerns about the Argentinean State's lost revenues.

Lunes, Agosto 15, 2011

A number of Argentinean universities have refused to accept donations from mining companies and Argentine Federal Prosecutor Gustavo Gómez calls on Canadian institutions to carefully look at company practices when considering offers of this type of funding.

Lunes, Agosto 15, 2011

In Argentina, the movement to protect the environment has moved from the fringes and the university classroom, to communities concerned for their well-being, to the court room. Mr. Gómez discusses the challenges and his hopes for his country’s future. He also provides an interesting insight into the effectiveness of calling for justice from the judges hearing environmental cases, arguing that public attention helps counter-balance the behind-the-scenes influence often wielded by companies.

Lunes, Agosto 15, 2011

The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court was adopted in 1998 and can be viewed as a precedent, according to Argentine Federal Prosecutor Gustavo Gómez, for the establishment of an international environmental crimes court. He believes such a body is essential to ending the impunity that multi-national companies causing large-scale, long-term environmental damage enjoy. He explains how this dream could come true.