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Another Protester Against Pacific Rim Mining Corporation's El Dorado Project Assassinated in El Salvador - Second Community Activist Killed in Less Than a Week

Joint communiqué with CISPES (Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador): On December 26, 2009, Dora “Alicia” Recinos Sorto, age 32, was assassinated, the second anti-mining activist killed this week in the small community of Nueva Trinidad in the department of Cabañas. Recinos Sorto was eight months pregnant and carrying her two-year old child when she was shot on her way back from doing laundry at a nearby river. She and her husband, José Santos Rodríguez, were outspoken opponents of the proposed El Dorado mine which Pacific Rim, a Vancouver-based mining company, is desperate to open despite widespread community opposition.

Monday, December 28, 2009

Corporate Social Responsibility, El Salvador, Pacific Rim

Canada-Ecuador: When Stock Exchanges Fuel Human Rights Violations

Recently, Toronto-based Pinetree Capital bought a few million shares of Copper Mesa Mining Corporation, making it the largest share owner of a failing company currently embroiled in a lawsuit . The takeover raised the price of its penny stock upwards to between three and five cents. Copper Mesa, however, got a lot more than what it bargained for.

Thursday, December 24, 2009

Corporate Social Responsibility, Ecuador, Copper Mesa/Ascendant Copper

Second Anti-Mining Activist Killed in El Salvador

CISPES (Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador) and MiningWatch Canada

Wave of violence centred around Vancouver-based Pacific Rim Mining’s gold project

Thursday, December 24, 2009

El Salvador, Human Rights, Pacific Rim

El Salvador's National Coalition Against Metallic Mining Condemns the Murders of Ramiro Rivera and Felícita Echeverría

Communiqué from the National Coalition Against Metallic Mining of El Salvador

Last Sunday, the 20th of December, environmentalist Ramiro Rivera Gómez, leader in the community resistance to the Canadian mining company Pacific Rim, was assassinated in the Trinidad region of Sensuntepeque, in Cabañas, El Salvador. His wife Felícita Echeverría, next to him, died as well, and a 13-year-old girl was wounded.

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

El Salvador, Human Rights, Pacific Rim

Urgent Appeal: Write to Barrick Gold to Protest Refusal to Reinstate Union Leader

UPDATE: After 2-day strike in the Veladero mine (December 17-18, 2009) OSMA-CTA (Organización Sindical de Mineros Argentinos) and Barrick Gold in Argentina signed a historic agreement on Jan. 12, 2010.

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Argentina, Barrick Gold, Labour

Mining and Jewelry Industry Self Certification System Falls Short

Joint news release with CAFOD, the Canadian Boreal Initiative, Earthworks, Great Basin Resource Watch, the International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers' Unions, and the Western Shoshone Defense Project: A mining and jewelry industry trade association -- the Responsible Jewellery Council -- launched its certification scheme this week. The RJC is comprised of mining and jewelry companies -- the very entities the certification scheme would govern. Unfortunately, RJC's system primarily serves to illustrate the need for independent, third-party monitoring.

Monday, December 21, 2009

Corporate Social Responsibility, Gold

Documents Show Corruption and Intimidation by Canadian Mining Firm Blackfire in Its Mexican operations – Ottawa Must Investigate Immediately

Joint news release with Common Frontiers-Canada, the Council of Canadians, and the United Steelworkers: Documents recently filed by the Mexican Network of People Affected by Mining (REMA, from the Spanish) with the Chiapas Attorney General’s Office have exposed Blackfire’s involvement in the corruption of local officials for the purpose of intimidating opponents to the company's open pit barite mine. “We have obtained documents – which Blackfire admits are genuine – that clearly show payments of US$1,000 a month going directly into the Mayor of Chicomuselo’s bank account on the understanding that municipal authorities would keep community members opposed to the mine under control,” explained Rick Arnold, coordinator for Common Frontiers-Canada.

Friday, December 18, 2009

Corporate Social Responsibility, Mexico, Blackfire

Victory for KI an Expensive Lesson for Ontario

MiningWatch Canada is very pleased with yesterday’s announcement from the Government of Ontario regarding a resolution to the three-year stand off between the community of Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug ("KI") and Toronto-based exploration company Platinex.

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Ontario, Free Entry/Land Access, Indigenous Rights, Platinex

A “Free for All” As Mining Claims More Than Double In Carbon-rich Ecosystem - Public Interest Groups Call For Land Withdrawals To Ease Pressure

Joint release with CPAWS-Wildlands Leagues and Ecojustice: TORONTO – A rapid increase in exploratory mining activities, including staking, drilling and clearance of vegetation in the heart of Ontario’s northern Boreal Forest, one of the world’s most carbon-rich ecosystems, has become a “Wild West” free-for-all, warn public interest groups. CPAWS Wildlands League, Ecojustice and MiningWatch Canada are concerned that development in an area known in the industry as the ‘Ring of Fire’ in Ontario’s Far North is exploding due to inadequate control under an antiquated Mining Act.

Monday, December 14, 2009

Ontario, Free Entry/Land Access

Innu, Doctors, Elected Officials, Local Residents Oppose Uranium Exploration on North Shore of Quebec

One of MiningWatch Canada's fundamental principles is that mining activiities, including exploration should only occur with the support of local communities. Our uranium policy also calls for a moratorium on new uranium projects.

Friday, December 11, 2009

Canada, Québec, Health, Indigenous Rights, Uranium, Terra Ventures