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New from the Canary Institute: "Mining Closure Plans: Your Right to Know!"
Information on how to review and comment on a Mine Closure Plan – based on Part VII of the Ontario Mining Act and enabling Regulations. Published by our sister organization, the Canary Research Institute on Mining Environment and Health. Available as a PDF file ...
Friday, August 26, 2005
Ontario
From Paradise to Toxic Wasteland: Oxfam Report Exposes a Canadian Mining Company’s Lack of Corporate Accountability in Philippine Island Mining Disaster

(Ottawa) “Our report tells how Placer Dome Inc. of Vancouver, built a million dollar mining operation on the tiny Philippine island of Marinduque and then abandoned it, leaving behind a toxic legacy that threatens lives today. We want Placer to take responsibility, clean up its waste and pay up what it owes,” says Oxfam’s Mining Ombudsman, Ingrid Macdonald.

Wednesday, August 24, 2005
Marcopper Mine, Corporate Social Responsibility, Philippines, Barrick Gold, Placer Dome
Leaked Review Slams World Bank Over Canadian Mine in Guatemala

MiningWatch Canada – Friends of the Earth Canada – Halifax Initiative

(Ottawa, 22 August, 2005) A leaked internal audit assessing the World Bank’s involvement in a controversial Canadian gold mine in Guatemala has exposed glaring deficiencies in the due diligence undertaken by the Bank prior to approving a $45 million loan for the mine.

Monday, August 22, 2005
Guatemala, World Bank/International Financial Institutions, Glamis Gold, Goldcorp
Internal Review Slams World Bank Over Lapses at Guatemala Mine - Backgrounder
A forthcoming report by the Compliance Advisor Ombudsman (CAO), a body responsible for conducting internal reviews at the World Bank’s private sector lending arm, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), identifies glaring deficiencies in the due diligence the institution conducted for a controversial new gold-mining project in Guatemala. The project, currently under construction by Canadian ...
Monday, August 22, 2005
Guatemala, World Bank/International Financial Institutions, Glamis Gold, Goldcorp
ILO Investigates Claim Charging Violation of Convention 169 Regarding Skye Resources’ Guatemalan Nickel Project

From AEPDI: (Guatemala) The International Labour Organization (ILO) is currently investigating a claim filed in March 2005 charging that Guatemala’s government violated its obligations under Convention 169 when it granted mine exploration licences to Skye Resources’ Guatemalan subsidiary in December 2004, in the northeastern part of the country largely populated by Q’eqchi’ Mayan indigenous communities.

Tuesday, August 16, 2005
Guatemala, HudBay Minerals, Skye
MiningWatch Board Meets in Yellowknife

The Board of Directors of MiningWatch Canada met in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, on October 1 to 3, 2004. The meeting included a tour of the closed Giant Mine and presentations from the Independent Environmental Monitoring Agency, CPAWS (Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society, NWT Chapter), and the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC). Bringing our Board members from around the country to the NWT was a fine experience for the Board and our hosts.

Sunday, August 14, 2005
Northwest Territories
Yukon Pushes Weakened Reclamation Policy
In the Yukon, there are 120 mines that have been abandoned by their owners, of which 45 have serious toxic and physical stability problems. (At present, placer mining is the only mining activity in the Yukon.) The costs of cleaning up these sites is estimated at over $400 million. Despite this overwhelming evidence, the Yukon government is still considering a reclamation policy that ...
Sunday, August 14, 2005
Abandoned Mines, Yukon
Kemess: British Columbia First Nations Organise to Protect Amazay (Duncan Lake) from Mine Waste
Five First Nations in BC have won agreement from Northgate Minerals that it will not mine without First Nations approval. They are also demanding that any environmental assessment of the project be done by a tri-partite panel, including First Nations as equal representatives with federal and provincial governments. Northgate Minerals Corporation has applied for a permit to ...
Saturday, August 13, 2005
British Columbia, Northgate
Victor Diamond Mine Undergoes Environmental Assessment

MiningWatch has submitted comments on the Victor Diamond Mine Environmental Assessment. This huge project, on the traditional territory of Attawapiskat First Nation, is being proposed by DeBeers. It may drain and dry out over 1950 square kilometres of muskeg, will dramatically affect flows an important fish-bearing river, and will have untold effects on the social, cultural and economic life of the region.

Saturday, August 13, 2005
Victor Project, Ontario, Diamonds, De Beers
Representatives from Siocon, Southern Philippines, Oppose Canadian Mining Company TVI Pacific

(Ottawa) Representatives of the local government, Indigenous Peoples, civil society and sectoral organizations from Siocon, a municipality in the southern Philippines, have travelled to Canada to declare their collective opposition to the plans of Canadian mining company TVI Pacific to operate a gold, copper and silver mine on Mount Canatuan. The mine is within the ancestral land of the Subanon people and within the critical watershed of the downstream communities of Siocon.

Saturday, August 13, 2005
Canatuan Project - TVI Pacific, TVI Pacific

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