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Newsletter 20: Autumn 2005 - PDF version

Friday, December 23, 2005

Ascendant gets a rough ride in Ecuador, can’t get picked up in Toronto

Ascendant Copper launched its IPO (initial public offering) on the Toronto Stock Exchange, but it was their camp in Ecuador that really caught fire. The company launched its IPO on October 14, 2005 (stock symbol ACX), ...

Wednesday, December 21, 2005

Ecuador, Copper Mesa/Ascendant Copper

Guatemalans Present Demands to World Bank President re: Marlin Mine

On December 9, 2005, World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz met with Mario Tema, an indigenous Maya leader from Sipacapa, Guatemala, and Magali Rey Rosa of the Guatemalan environmental organisation MadreSelva. Representatives of Friends of the Earth Canada, Oxfam America, and the Bank Information Center were also present.

Wednesday, December 21, 2005

Guatemala, Glamis Gold, Goldcorp

Barrick Gold Faces Determined Opposition at Pascua Lama and Veladero

Community groups on both side of the Argentina-Chile border are increasing their opposition to Barrick Gold’s proposed Pascua Lama project in Chile, while criticism of its Veladero project already under way on the Argentinean side of the border is also mounting. There have been protests in both countries and even a blockade on the Argentinean side.

Wednesday, December 21, 2005

Argentina, Chile, Barrick Gold

Funds to Pay for Intervention on Proposed Kemess North Mine in BC

MiningWatch Canada has received $31,270 from the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency as part of the participant funding for the Kemess North mine environmental assessment. The funds were a portion of the $99,000 given out by the Agency for intervenors. The four affected First Nations elected to boycott the process on the basis ...

Wednesday, December 21, 2005

British Columbia, Northgate

Regulating Canadian Mining Companies Operating Internationally - October 2005 Conference

Canadian mining companies have been alleged to be at the root of forced resettlement, environmental destruction, negotiating with hostile regimes, as well as being involved in a morass of violations of human, workers’ and indigenous rights. MiningWatch Canada has documented international cases to expose the negative social, environmental, economical and political consequences of Canadian-based or Canadian-financed mining operations.

Wednesday, December 21, 2005

Corporate Social Responsibility

Ensuring the fox has streamlined access at the henhouse: the federal Smart Regulation initiative.

On March 24, 2005, Treasury Board President Reg Alcock said, “Ottawa is making sweeping changes to the way it regulates Canadian business to help firms compete at home and abroad in the face of lagging productivity growth, rapid scientific advances and emerging global juggernauts such as China.”

Wednesday, December 21, 2005

Environmental Assessment, bcMetals, Water and fisheries, Imperial Metals

MiningWatch welcomes Susan Murdock as Resource Development and Administrative Coordinator

MiningWatch Canada’s Directors and staff are pleased to announce that Susan Murdock has accepted the position of Resource Development and Administrative Coordinator. She takes over from Julea Boswell, whose abrupt departure brought us the good fortune of having Liz Kim help out on an interim basis until a new hiring process brought Susan on board. Liz’s good nature and commitment made her a pleasure ...

Wednesday, December 21, 2005

Tensions Explode Around Canadian Mining Operation in Ecuador: Residents Torch Building

MiningWatch Canada has been informed that on Saturday, December 10, local residents set fire to, and destroyed, at least one building owned by the Canadian mining company Ascendant Copper Corporation in Ecuador. According to the Ecuadorian daily El Comercio, more than 300 residents, including representatives from a range of local communities, set fire to the building in a compound described by Ascendant as a demonstration farm. This action was apparently taken to protest development of Ascendant’s proposed Junín mine.

Tuesday, December 13, 2005

Ecuador, Copper Mesa/Ascendant Copper

Technical Review of the El Dorado Mine Project Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), El Salvador

Independent hydrogeologist Robert Moran did this review of the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) for Pacific Rim Mining Corp's El Dorado project for the Asociación de Desarrollo Económica y Social, Santa Marta (ADES) of Sensuntepeque, Cabañas, El Salvador.

Wednesday, December 7, 2005

El Salvador, Pacific Rim