Platinex

First Nation and Conservation Groups Seek Investigation of Exploration Company God’s Lake Resources by Securities Regulator

Mardi, mars 20, 2012

News release: Today four conservation groups have joined with the northern Ontario Oji-Cree
community Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (KI) to request that the Ontario Securities Commission investigate junior exploration company God’s Lake Resources (stock symbol GLR).

Étiquettes: Canada, Reforming Mining Laws and Policies, Ontario, Environmental Planning, Free Entry/Land Access, Gold, Indigenous Rights, Platinex

Decolonizing Environmental Management: A Case Study of Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug

Vendredi, décembre 2, 2011

By 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.

Étiquettes: Ontario, Free Entry/Land Access, Indigenous Rights, Publications, Platinex

KI Passes Protocols and Water Declaration, MiningWatch Answers Call to Action

Mercredi, juillet 20, 2011

Faced with ongoing pressures from the mining sector KI have developed a Water Declaration and Consultation Protocols.

Étiquettes: Ontario, Environmental Planning, Indigenous Rights, Water and fisheries, Platinex

Victory for KI an Expensive Lesson for Ontario

Mardi, décembre 15, 2009

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.

Étiquettes: Reforming Mining Laws and Policies, Ontario, Free Entry/Land Access, Indigenous Rights, Platinex

Groups call for comprehensive reform of Ontario’s outdated mining laws: Courts being used to punish people who peacefully oppose mining projects

Vendredi, novembre 28, 2008

TORONTO - With the Ontario legislature resuming sitting this week, over 30 groups and organizations are urging the government to overhaul its outdated mining laws and policies. In an Open Letter to the Premier, a wide range of social justice organizations, faith groups and environmental groups express their deep concern that the Mining Act in Ontario is taking precedence over human rights and ecological concerns.

Étiquettes: Ontario, Free Entry/Land Access, Indigenous Rights, Frontenac Ventures, Platinex

Aboriginal Leaders Face Jail Time in Spreading Disputes over First Nations Rights and Mining Claims - Consultation and Conservation Demands Conflict with Outdated Mining Law across Canada's Boreal Forest

Vendredi, novembre 28, 2008

(Thunder Bay, ON) Spreading disputes between First Nations and mining companies may lead to jail time for Aboriginal leaders in northern Ontario pending the outcome of an Ontario Superior Court of Justice appearance today. Chief Donnie Morris and other members of Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (KI), an Aboriginal community in the Boreal Forest of Ontario, may be jailed for refusing to comply with an October,2007 court ruling that allows Platinex Inc., a Toronto-based mineral exploration company, to begin drilling on KI traditional lands without protest or obstruction.

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

Environmental Commissioner of Ontario Calls for Major Overhaul of Mining Act

Mardi, décembre 4, 2007

[News release] Ontario should amend the Mining Act to provide for consultation with First Nations when granting mining claims and leases and stop treating public lands as freely open to mineral exploration, according to Ontario’s Environmental Commissioner, Gordon Miller.

Étiquettes: Reforming Mining Laws and Policies, Ontario, Free Entry/Land Access, Impact on Communities, Indigenous Rights, Uranium, Frontenac Ventures, Platinex

Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug: Our Home and Native Land

Lundi, juin 25, 2007

[The following is a speech made by John Cutfeet on Saturday, June 2nd, 2007, as part of a Roundtable on “the Duty to consult aboriginal peoples and Ontario's Mining Act” at the Canadian Law and Society Association meetings at the Congress of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon.]

Greetings to all of you from Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug!

Étiquettes: Ontario, Platinex

Ontario Attacks Aboriginal and Treaty Rights in Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (KI) Litigation

Mercredi, janvier 31, 2007

THUNDER BAY - Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN) Deputy Grand Chief Alvin Fiddler and Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (KI) spokesperson John Cutfeet are outraged by the Government of Ontario's attack on Aboriginal and treaty rights during court proceedings in the case of KI vs. Platinex on January 26, 2007. "Ontario's legal argument dismisses constitutionally protected Aboriginal and ...

Étiquettes: Ontario, Indigenous Rights, Platinex

Analysis of Platinex Inc. v. Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug First Nation case

Vendredi, septembre 15, 2006

Borden Ladner Gervais LLP Aboriginal Legal Issues e-Newsletter by Scott Kerwin, reproduced with permission.

Étiquettes: Reforming Mining Laws and Policies, Ontario, Free Entry/Land Access, Indigenous Rights, Platinex