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No Means No: The Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug and the Fight for Resource Sovereignty

No Means NoIn 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.

Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Canada, Ontario, Free Entry/Land Access, Human Rights, Impact on Communities, Indigenous Rights, Publications, Platinex
Troubled Waters: How Mine Waste Dumping is Poisoning Our Oceans, Rivers and Lakes

Each year, mining companies dump more than 180 million tonnes of hazardous mine waste into rivers, lakes, and oceans worldwide, threatening vital bodies of water with toxic heavy metals and other chemicals poisonous to humans and wildlife, according to this report by Earthworks and MiningWatch Canada.

Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Canada, Metal Mining Effluent Regulations, British Columbia, Ok Tedi Mine - BHP-Billiton/Inmet, Manitoba, Porgera Mine - Barrick, Indonesia, Newfoundland & Labrador, Waste Rock and Tailings, Northwest Territories, Papua New Guinea, Ontario, Québec, Saskatchewan, Environment, Barrick Gold, BHP-Billiton, Cliffs, Publications, Submarine/Subaqueous Tailings Disposal, Water and fisheries, Goldcorp, Iron Ore Company of Canada, Labrador Iron Mines, Newmont, Northern Dynasty, Placer Dome, Rio Tinto Alcan, Rio Tinto, Taseko, Teck, Vale (incl. Inco), Xstrata (Falconbridge/Noranda)
Decolonizing Environmental Management: A Case Study of Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug

Wilkes, James. Decolonizing Environmental Management: A Case Study of Kitchenuhmaykoosib InninuwugBy James Wilkes. This study was done as a Masters thesis at Trent University and is posted here at the request of the author. Canadian environmental management involving Indigenous communities is at a crossroads. First Nation communities in regions holding mineral and other natural resources are coping with legal, economic and political pressures to comply with government and industry demands for resource extraction and exploitation.

Friday, December 2, 2011
Ontario, Free Entry/Land Access, Indigenous Rights, Publications, Platinex
The Theory and Practice of Perpetual Care of Contaminated Sites

The Theory and Practice of Perpetual Care of Contaminated SitesIn fall 2010, Alternatives North hired Dr. Joan Kuyek to do a study. Giant Mine in Yellowknife has 237,000 tonnes of arsenic trioxide to take care of. There is a plan to freeze this arsenic, so it can’t leak out and hurt the people and the land. For the Environmental Assessment of this plan, Alternatives North asked for a study of how contaminants are managed in other places.

Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Abandoned Mines, Canada, Arsenic, Northwest Territories, Environment, Gold, Impact on Communities, Publications, Toxics/National Pollutant Release Inventory, Xstrata (Falconbridge/Noranda)
Land and Conflict: Resource Extraction, Human Rights, and Corporate Social Responsibility - Canadian Companies in Colombia

Land and Conflict: Resource Extraction, Human Rights, and Corporate Social Responsibility - Canadian Companies in ColombiaThis report, researched by MiningWatch Canada, CENSAT-Agua Viva, and Inter Pares, looks at four case studies of Canadian extractive industry investment projects in Colombia, analyzing their associated potential human rights risks. Referring to principles developed by the UN Special Representative on Human Rights and Transnational Corporations, the report identifies issues and circumstances that clearly indicate that transparent and independent human rights impact assessments are necessary to avoid significant potential risk to human rights in existing and proposed extractive projects. Available from Inter Pares on request or download the PDF. Also available in French and coming soon in Spanish.

Thursday, October 1, 2009
Colombia, AngloGold Ashanti, Corporate Social Responsibility, B2Gold/Glencairn, Human Rights, Colombia Goldfields, Publications, Greystar Resources/Eco Oro Minerals
Effects of Mining on Women’s Health in Labrador West

Effects of Mining on Women’s Health in Labrador WestIn 2004 MiningWatch Canada partnered with the Labrador West Status of Women Council and the Femmes francophones de l’Ouest du Labrador on a joint effort to explore community women’s own perceptions

Wednesday, August 24, 2005
Labrador, Newfoundland & Labrador, Health, Cliffs, Publications, Women, Iron Ore Company of Canada
The Legacy of Greenstone Resources in Nicaragua

"We Cannot Just Speak About Things That Are Pretty" - The Legacy of Greenstone Resources in NicaraguaAnneli Tolvanen traveled to the mining communities of Bonanaza and La Libertad in August, 2001, interviewing men, women, and youth, community

Thursday, August 11, 2005
Artisanal and Small-scale Mining, Corporate Social Responsibility, Nicaragua, B2Gold/Glencairn, Publications
Grave Diggers: A Report on Mining in Burma

Grave Diggers: A Report on Mining in BurmaBy Roger Moody: In the course of my research, several salient facts emerged. First, the number of mining companies invited into Burma by the military regime, the State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC), is greater than we previously suspected.

Friday, September 1, 2000
Burma, Human Rights, Militarisation, Publications, Ivanhoe
On the Ground Research: A Workshop to Identify the Research Needs of Communities Affected by Large-Scale Mining

On the Ground Research: A Workshop to Identify the Research Needs of Communities Affected by Large-Scale MiningReport from the Workshop held in Ottawa, April 14-16, 2000.

Friday, September 1, 2000
Canada, INCO in Sulawesi, Africa, Ghana, Lead, Sulawesi, Arsenic, Colombia, Nevada, Anaconda, Asbestos, New Mexico, Northwest Territories, Papua New Guinea, Cyanide, Ontario, Philippines, Economic Development, Guyana, Saskatchewan, Yukon, Mexico, Peru, Barrick Gold, Gold, Suriname, Battle Mountain, Impact on Communities, Cambior, Cameco, Militarisation, Publications, Uranium, Water and fisheries, World Bank/International Financial Institutions, Goldcorp, Golden Star, Infinito Gold, Newmont, Noranda/Falconbridge, Placer Dome, Teck, Xstrata (Falconbridge/Noranda)
Undermining the Forests. The need to control transnational mining companies: a Canadian case study

Undermining the Forests. The need to control transnational mining companies: a Canadian case studyThis study by Forest Peoples Programme, Philippine Indigenous Peoples Links and the World Rainforest Movement, published in January 2000, is the second report in a series which focuses on the social, environmental, economic and political impacts of transnational corporations (TNCs) on forests and forest peoples. The first one, titled High Stakes; The Need to Control Transnational Logging Companies: a Malaysian case study was published by the World Rainforest Movement and Forests Monitor in August 1998.

Tuesday, March 14, 2000
Indonesia, Philippines, Guyana, Barrick Gold, Suriname, Indigenous Rights, International Trade and Investment, Cambior, Publications, Golden Star, IAMGOLD, Infinito Gold, Teck, TVI Pacific, Yamana Gold

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