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News release: A MiningWatch representative sees corporate impunity at the root of ongoing abuses by Toronto-based Excellon Resources that workers and communal landowners from the Ejido La Sierrita in Durango, Mexico have been protesting. Recent aggression against their protest camp in Durango coincided with escalating tensions in Oaxaca and the murder of two community activists in Chihuahua, where local groups are also fighting Canadian mining investments.

Contents:

• Ontario First Nations Put a Damper on Ring of Fire Development
• No Means No: The Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug and the Fight for Resource Sovereignty
• Parti Québécois Scuttles Plans to Re-open Asbestos Mines
• Changes Coming to National Effluent Regulations
• Canada’s Development Aid Dollars at Odds with Communities
• Guatemala’s ‘Goldcorp Law’
• Corporations Fight Against Access to Domestic Courts for Harm Caused Overseas
• Anvil case - Supreme Court of Canada declines opportunity to rule on Canadian courts as appropriate forum
• Seeking a legal fix to the problem of access to justice in Canada
• Access to justice against corporations now threatened in the US
• Westray + 20 – Corporate Criminal Negligence in Canada
• Ghanaian Farmers Run Out of Patience with Kinross/Chirano Gold Mines

In 2006, a remote Ontario First Nation, Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (KI), said 'no' to a mining company, was sued for $10 billion, had its leaders found in contempt of court and jailed but eventually prevailed when, three years later, the Ontario government paid the company $5 million to go away. This 7-page e-book by KI's political advisor and former MiningWatch board member David Peerla tells how it all happened.

Despite sweeping changes to key parts of the Fisheries Act in last spring’s omnibus budget bill, Section 36, which deals with the release of “deleterious” substances, remained intact. That means the Metal Mining Effluent Regulations (MMER) which fall under Section 36 have also remained as they were – at least for now.