Newsletter 23: Summer/Autumn 2006

Martes, Octubre 24, 2006
On October 11, 2006, at 8:30 in the morning – minutes before the hearing was to begin – Industrias Infinito, the Costa Rican subsidiary of Calgary-based Vannessa Ventures, dropped its lawsuit against Marco Tulio Araya for defamation and damages. The company also agreed to reimburse Araya, a journalist ...
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By Ken Luckhardt, Chairperson, PBI-Canada and Board Member, MiningWatch Canada

Martes, Octubre 24, 2006

The Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace is launching a five year action program in solidarity with its partners in communities in Africa, Asia and Latin America to promote sustainable human development through participatory management, democratic control, and the equitable distribution of resources.

The first two years of the campaign will focus on mining by Canadian companies in the Global South. Development and Peace campaigners will encourage people to ask the Canadian government to:

Martes, Octubre 24, 2006

The community at TVI Pacific’s mine site in the municipality of Siocon, Zamboanga del Norte is made up of indigenous Subanon, some of whom are native to that place and included in the Certificate of Ancestral Domain Title, and others that have been come from others areas to work for TVI Pacific, and “settlers,” mainly from the Visayan region of the Philippines, some of whom were small scale miners all of whom are now agricultural.

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The final public sessions in the Roundtables on Corporate Social Responsibility and Canada’s Extractive Sector in Developing Countries take place on Tuesday, November 14 in Montreal. The deadline to register to make an oral presentation is October 31. If you are interested in observing the presentations, simply show up at the Doubletree Plaza Hotel, 505 Sherbrooke Street E., at 9 a.m. or 6 p.m.

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Thirty-two members of the Ontario Mining Action Network met in Sault Ste. Marie September 15-16, 2006, for a technical workshop on Acid Mine Drainage and a strategy session.

The Ontario Mining Action Network promotes responsible mining practices through mutual support founded on common interests, taking into account the social, cultural, economic and environmental impacts of mining in Ontario.

The OMAN participants came from First Nations and communities all over the province.

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Mining projects in Ontario are supposed to be subjected to two levels of Environmental Assessment: Federal and Provincial.

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Friday, November 3, 2006
7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto

MiningWatch Canada is sponsoring two films at this years’ Planet in Focus environmental film festival in Toronto.