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After the Mine: Healing our Lands and Nations

Report from a workshop on abandoned mines sponsored by the Assembly of First Nations and MiningWatch Canada, Sudbury, Ontario, May 11-13, 2001: Abandoned mines are a serious and immediate danger to human health and the environment.

Friday, July 6, 2001

Abandoned Mines, After the Mine, Economic Development, Impact on Communities, Indigenous Rights, Publications

Financial Options for the Remediation of Mine Sites: A Preliminary Study

Abandoned mines are a key source of pollution in Canada.

Friday, July 6, 2001

Abandoned Mines, Economics & Taxation, Environment, Publications

Reality Check – The Globalisation of Natural Resources

By Jamie Kneen: Mining and the World Bank/International Monetary Fund - A Special Focus on Ghana, Honduras, Mexico, and Peru. Since the 1990s, foreign-backed mining activity in the “developing world” has been expanding rapidly.

Monday, July 2, 2001

Ghana, Honduras, Mexico, Peru, Publications, World Bank/International Financial Institutions

TOXICanada: 13 Good Reasons to Establish A Clean Canada Fund

[Report by MiningWatch Canada and the Sierra Club of Canada] Unlike most developed countries, Canada has no national program to deal with contaminated sites. Abandoned mines and tailings ponds create toxic nightmares, contaminating rivers, lakes and surrounding lands. Local communities are left to deal with the toxic legacy, or, frequently, to cope and live with the contamination and its impacts on their health and the health of their children. Recent increases in imports of hazardous waste from our trading partners, paired with Canada's inability to deal with existing waste properly increase the urgency for developing an effective national program to deal with the problem.

Sunday, July 1, 2001

Abandoned Mines, Alberta, British Columbia, Northwest Territories, Saskatchewan, Yukon, B2Gold/Glencairn, Noranda/Falconbridge, Xstrata (Falconbridge/Noranda)

From Québec to Copan: Globalization and the Case of San Andrés Minas

No one was thinking about the small Mayan community of San Andrés Minas, in Honduras, when political and business “leaders” met in Québec City, April 2001, to discuss the FTAA - “Free” Trade Agreement of the Americas. No one considered the community devastation wrought by Greenstone, a Canadian gold mining company, when it forcibly relocated the community of San Andrés. No one gave second thought to the destruction of San Andres' one hundred year old church. Not one “elected” leader protested the deforestation of surrounding mountainsides. No one cared that Greenstone illegally discharged pollutants into the Lara River. Not a single business leader spoke up to denounce increasing respiratory and other illnesses.

Monday, June 25, 2001

Honduras, Aura Minerals, Yamana Gold

Profiles of Some Canadian Mining Companies Operating in Africa

The mining sector is the largest source of foreign private investment on the African continent, and Canadian investors are at the centre of this economic boom. By the Groupe de recherche sur les activités minières en Afrique (GRAMA) at UQAM (University of Québec at Montréal).

Thursday, May 24, 2001

Congo - Democratic Republic, Ghana, Kenya, Mali, AngloGold Ashanti, Tanzania, Banro, Barrick Gold, IAMGOLD, Tenke, Tiomin

Drummond Reneges on Security Promises to Colombian Coal Miners Union After Murders

by J. MacNeil

On March 12, 2001 the President and Vice-President of the union local representing workers at the Drummond mine at La Loma, Cesar, Colombia, were murdered after several months of conflict between the union and the company.

Saturday, May 12, 2001

Colombia, Labour

Mining in Remote Areas: Issues and Impacts -- A Community Primer

To respond effectively to the challenges of mineral development, communities need the context and information necessary to understand and weigh the issues. This booklet profiles major impacts associated with mines developed in remote areas. Produced for MiningWatch Canada by the Environmental Mining Council of British Columbia.

Friday, May 11, 2001

Canada, Economic Development, Educational Materials, Environment, Impact on Communities, Publications

Supporting materials from the forum on "Mining, Environment, and Peace"

The forum on "Mining, Environment, and Peace" was convoked by SINTRAMINERCOL (the union of workers of Minercol, Colombia's state mining company) on May 3-4, 2001, in Bogota. PDF and PowerPoint files. In Spanish only.

Monday, May 7, 2001

Artisanal and Small-scale Mining, Colombia, Gold

Manado Declaration on Submarine Tailings

People from Southeast Asia and the Pacific region came together in Manado, Indonesia from April 23-30, 2001, with others from the home countries of transnational mining companies, to discuss the issue of the ocean dumping of mine waste, known as Submarine Tailings Disposal.

Monday, April 30, 2001

Indonesia, Submarine/Subaqueous Tailings Disposal

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