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Undermining human rights: A report back from northwestern Guatemala

Photo essay: Despite repeated recommendations from the international community during 2010 to suspend Goldcorp’s controversial Marlin mine in the northwestern highlands of Guatemala, the open-pit mine continues operating. Its presence in the indigenous municipalities of San Miguel Ixtahuacán and Sipacapa has led to allegations of serious human rights violations and social upheaval.

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Corporate Social Responsibility, Guatemala, Health, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, Women, Glamis Gold, Goldcorp

Sandy Pond Christmas Appeal

A holiday appeal from the Sandy Pond Alliance: The Sandy Pond Alliance, a group of private citizens, has launched a legal challenge to nullify Schedule 2 and prevent the destruction of lakes, ponds, rivers and streams. Your gift will go directly to the Sandy Pond Alliance to support their legal challenge. This action involves commitment, effort and dedication to our province and country.

Monday, December 20, 2010

Metal Mining Effluent Regulations, Newfoundland & Labrador, Water and fisheries, Vale (incl. Inco)

Residents raise alarm over toxic mining outflows into northern Manitoba lake: Company and government actions questioned in toxic poisoning of Kississing Lake

Western Canada Wilderness Committee news release: The Wilderness Committee is responding to the appalling news from Sherridon, Manitoba, where a government funded reclamation of an abandoned mine site continues to show that government and industry are not ready to deal with the long-term environmental damage resulting from mining.

Thursday, December 9, 2010

Abandoned Mines, Acid Mine Drainage, Manitoba, Water and fisheries, Sherritt Gordon

Project to restart asbestos mine in Quebec: A forest in Australia, a cemetery in India?

Québec. A forest in Australia, a cemetery in India? If Quebeckers felt proud to have an Australian forest named after Québec Premier Jean Charest for his actions to address climate change, how would they feel if, one day, a cemetery in India was named after their Premier to commemorate the victims of Québec asbestos?

Thursday, December 9, 2010

Asbestos in Québec, LAB Chrysotile, Asbestos, Québec, Health

Strateco Over-states Support for Uranium Project

MiningWatch Canada is concerned about the statements made by junior mining company Strateco Resources claiming that recent hearings in Mistissini and Chibougamau showed it had “strong support” for its Matoush Uranium Exploration Project in the James Bay region of Quebec.

Thursday, December 2, 2010

Québec, Environmental Assessment, Uranium, Strateco

Award Winning Mining Company Being Sued for Violent Death of Community Leader: Industry Out of Step with Canadian Values and Expectations

News release: A recently announced lawsuit against HudBay Minerals Inc. points to the industry's failure to take responsibility for corporate abuses beyond Canadian borders. Paradoxically, the company recently won an award for Corporate Social Responsibility from the Mining Association of Canada. Toronto-based HudBay and two of its subsidiaries are being sued for the death of Adolfo Ich Chamán, who was hacked and shot to death by private security forces employed at the company's nickel mining project in eastern Guatemala on September 27th 2009.

Thursday, December 2, 2010

British Columbia, Manitoba, Québec, HudBay Minerals, Iron Ore Company of Canada, Teck

Submission to the House of Commons Standing Committee on International Trade on the Canada-Panama Free Trade Agreement

Canada moves to support mining investment in Panama in the face of mounting human rights abuse by the Panamanian government and concerted opposition from Indigenous peoples, affected communities, and environmental groups. "The agreement as negotiated presents a very real risk of entrenching an ineffective and possibly irresponsible regulatory regime by protecting investments from tougher environmental or fiscal measures."

Monday, November 29, 2010

Panama, International Trade and Investment, Corriente Resources, Inmet, Petaquilla Minerals

Green Budget Coalition Releases Self-Financing Recommendations for 2011 Federal Budget

(Ottawa) Following Finance Minister Jim Flaherty's kick-off to his pre-budget consultations in Toronto Friday, Canadian environmental organisations released their priority recommendations for the 2011 federal budget, including measures that could save the government well over $800 million per year.

Thursday, November 25, 2010

Canada, Asbestos, Economics & Taxation

Administrative Tribunal Sides With Communities of Northern Costa Rica, Annuls Infinito Gold's Mining Concession

On Wednesday, November 24th, 2010, the Contentious Administrative Tribunal (TCA by its initials in Spanish) sided with the demand of organizations that form part of the Opposition Front to mining in the north of Costa Rica when it ordered the annulment of the concession for gold extraction granted to the transnational company Infinito Gold in the district of Crucitas de Cutris in San Carlos province, along the border of Costa Rica with Nicaragua.

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Costa Rica, Infinito Gold/Vanessa

MiningWatch's Review of Matoush Environmental Impact Statement

The guidelines set out in the Directives have clearly not been met by the proponent, and where they may have been met in the table of contents and section numbers the quality of the work is not sufficient for you, the communities of Mistissini, Cree Regional Authority, Chibougamau residents, or other stakeholders to really assess the potential impacts and benefits of this project.

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Québec, Uranium, Strateco