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ACTION ALERT: Canada’s Environmental Assessment Law Is Under Attack

The Harper Government wants to gut the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act. Tell the Conservatives that Canada’s environment matters – and environmental laws matter. Tell them we won’t accept shoddy “streamlined” public reviews and destructive megaprojects – even if they change the law to allow them to proceed.

Ottawa
Canada
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 - Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Canada, Environmental Planning, Environmental Assessment
ACTION ALERT: Student Anti-Mining Activist Assassinated in El Salvador – Call on the Attorney General and the Minister of Security to Investigate!

Salvadoran Juan Francisco Durán Ayala, anti-mining activist and university student, has been murdered (background information below). Join the Environmental Committee of Cabañas (CAC) and Juan Francisco's family in calling on the Attorney General and National Civilian Police to carry out an exhaustive investigation into the material and intellectual authors of this brutal murder and to and protect the lives of all anti-mining activists in El Salvador.

San Salvador
El Salvador
Friday, June 17, 2011 - Saturday, December 17, 2011
Corporate Accountability, Corporate Social Responsibility, El Salvador, Human Rights, International Trade and Investment, Pacific Rim
TAKE ACTION: Tell the Federal Government to turn down Taseko

Canadians want just and sustainable development not fake lakes and abuse of Aboriginal rights!

The federal review panel on the proposed Prosperity Gold-Copper Mine has released its final report. It has concluded that the project, if approved, would have significant and lasting negative environmental effects and represent a significant loss to the area's First Nations.

Williams Lake, British Columbia
Canada
Thursday, June 9, 2011 (All day) - Friday, December 23, 2011 (All day)
Water, British Columbia, Environmental Planning, Environmental Assessment, Indigenous Rights, Water and fisheries, Taseko
Urgent Action: Protect Vital Wetlands in Colombia from Canadian Mining Project

This urgent action is being distributed by the Colombian Network Against Large-Scale Transnational Mining (Reclame Colombia), which brings together nearly fifty organizations in Colombia. The letter can also be signed on to at the RECLAME web site: http://www.reclamecolombia.org/

Bucaramanga, Santander
Colombia
Friday, January 21, 2011 - Thursday, March 31, 2011
Water, Corporate Accountability, Colombia, Greystar Resources
Urgent Action: Denounce recent wave of death threats and crimes against El Salvadoran anti-mining movement

Our allies in the Cabañas environmental movement as well as the National Roundtable Against Metallic Mining (the Mesa) are very concerned about a recent wave of death threats and crimes against members of El Salvador’s anti-mining movement as well as other violent crimes recently committed in Cabañas.

El Salvador
Wednesday, January 19, 2011 - Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Corporate Accountability, El Salvador, Human Rights, International Trade and Investment, Goldcorp, Pacific Rim
Urgent Action: Threats and Violence Against Community Leaders in Cabañas, El Salvador
Victoria, Cabanas
El Salvador
Friday, August 20, 2010 (All day) - Thursday, March 31, 2011 (All day)
Corporate Accountability, El Salvador, Pacific Rim
Urgent Action: Shooting of Community Leader Opposing Goldcorp Inc.'s Marlin Mine in Guatemala; Threats Against Local Leaders Escalate
Tuesday, July 13, 2010 (All day) - Thursday, March 31, 2011 (All day)
Corporate Accountability, Corporate Social Responsibility, Guatemala, Goldcorp
Action Alert: No Means No! Put an End to the Prosperity Mine Proposal

On World Water Day, March 22, allies and supporters of the Tsilhqot’in National Government would like you to take action to protect Teztan Biny-Fish Lake. Let the federal and provincial governments know that you still stand with the Tsilhqot’in communities in opposition to the proposed Prosperity Mine by Taseko Mines Ltd.

British Columbia
Canada
Monday, December 21, 2009 - Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Metal Mining Effluent Regulations, Water, British Columbia, Environment, Environmental Assessment, Free Entry/Land Access, Indigenous Rights, Water and fisheries, Taseko
Bill C-300 – Corporate Accountability for the Activities of Mining, Oil or Gas Corporations in Developing Countries
Bill C-300, Corporate Accountability, Corporate Social Responsibility
Urgent Action: Support legislation to impose standards on Canadian government support for mining companies operating internationally

(Update) Bill C-300 - a "responsible mining bill" - goes to a vote in the House of Commons in September or October. See a video on what it's about and who's supporting it - and send a sample letter of support to join in promoting it.

Bill C-300, Corporate Accountability, Corporate Social Responsibility

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