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Jamaican Bauxite Environmental Organization Wins Restoration of Alcan Tailings Pond

The Mount Rosser bauxite tailings pond, St. Catherine’s, Jamaica.The Jamaican Bauxite Environmental Organization (JBEO) has won a major victory for the environment.

Friday, February 2, 2007
Aluminum, Jamaica, Rio Tinto Alcan
Transboundary Watershed Alliance Calls For Bi-National Assessment of Taku Mine: Fishery Too Valuable for Experiment With Unproven Technology

Transboundary Watershed Alliance News Release:

(January 30, 2007–Whitehorse, Yukon, and Juneau, Alaska) The Transboundary Watershed Alliance (TWA) has called upon authorities in British Columbia, Alaska, and at the federal level in Canada and the United States to undertake a full, open, and public binational environmental assessment of the new development proposal for the Tulsequah Chief project in northwest British Columbia.

Friday, February 2, 2007
British Columbia, Redfern
Ontario Attacks Aboriginal and Treaty Rights in Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (KI) Litigation
THUNDER BAY - Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN) Deputy Grand Chief Alvin Fiddler and Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (KI) spokesperson John Cutfeet are outraged by the Government of Ontario's attack on Aboriginal and treaty rights during court proceedings in the case of KI vs. Platinex on January 26, 2007. "Ontario's legal argument dismisses constitutionally protected Aboriginal and ...
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Ontario, Indigenous Rights, Platinex
Urgent Action and Update: 48 Arrested at Pascua Lama Blockade, Chile
After the arrests by the federal police (Carabineros), the local community returned to re-take the intersection. The peaceful occupation and blockade of mining machinery will be maintained indefinitely. Update from OLCA (Observatorio Latinoamericano de Conflictos Ambientales - Latin American Environmental Conflict Watch) More ...
Monday, January 29, 2007
Chile, Barrick Gold
Opposition Surges to Romanian Gold Project Propaganda

NEWS RELEASE

Alburnus Maior * MiningWatch Canada * EARTHWORKS * Friends of the Earth * Greenpeace in Romania *

Tuesday, January 23, 2007
Romania, Gabriel Resources
Mining’s “Bad Actors” May Finally be Held to Account
The Yukon Supreme Court has made a very significant decision (January 3, 2007) that grants the Canadian government leave to pursue the “oppression remedy” to “pierce the corporate veil” in order to hold perpetrators of bad mining practices responsible for their actions, even if they are operating under different corporate names. BYG Resources owned ...
Wednesday, January 10, 2007
Abandoned Mines, Economics & Taxation, Yukon

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