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Murder in El Salvador Calls Canadian Mining Interests Into Question

Joint news release with Council of Canadians and Common Frontiers: Yet another anti-mining activist has been murdered in El Salvador. Canadian civil society organizations are calling for a full investigation into the murder of Juan Francisco Durán Ayala, the fourth such death in two years that local organizations believe are linked to the presence of Vancouver-based Pacific Rim Mining in the department of Cabañas.

Monday, June 20, 2011
Corporate Social Responsibility, El Salvador, Human Rights, International Trade and Investment, Pacific Rim
Over 200 Health Advocates Tell Prime Minister Harper - “It’s time to put human health ahead of asbestos!”

In an open letter released today, over two hundred environmental and health groups, labour unions and scientists from Asia, Africa, North & South America and Europe [including MiningWatch Canada], call on Prime Minister Harper to stop preventing the UN Rotterdam Convention from adding chrysotile asbestos to its list of hazardous substances. Chrysotile asbestos represents 100% of the global asbestos trade.

Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Asbestos in Québec, Asbestos, Québec, Health
Taseko’s “New Prosperity” PR Misrepresents Panel Findings

On a flashy new website, Taseko claims that it has addressed all of the issues raised by the review panel and that it continues to work collaboratively with the First Nations on whose traditional territory the massive open pit operation would be located.

Thursday, June 9, 2011
Metal Mining Effluent Regulations, British Columbia, Environmental Assessment, Indigenous Rights, Submarine/Subaqueous Tailings Disposal, Water and fisheries, Taseko
Tsilhqot’in Nation call on Governments to Reject Re-Submitted “New Prosperity” Mine

News release posted on behalf of the Tsilhqot'in National Government: The Tsilhqot’in view Taseko Mines Ltd.’s (TML) so-called “New Prosperity” proposal as equally dangerous as the first – the integrity of Teztan Biny and its surrounding environment are not ‘saved’ by literally surrounding this sacred lake by one of the world’s largest open pits, a tailings pond designed for 720 million tons of toxic waste, nor by continuing to destroy Little Fish Lake and Fish Creek.  The impacts clearly articulated in the “scathing” 2010 Federal Review Panel Report, and acknowledged by the federal government’s rejection of the project in November 2010, are not addressed by simply re-packaging an already assessed proposal.

Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Metal Mining Effluent Regulations, British Columbia, Environmental Assessment, Indigenous Rights, Submarine/Subaqueous Tailings Disposal, Water and fisheries, Taseko

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