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Centerra Gold Inc. Flouting Mongolia’s Environmental Protection Laws: Organizations File Complaint with Canadian Government
Thursday, March 15, 2012

News release: A consortium of Canadian and Mongolian organisations has filed a complaint with the Canadian government over apparent violations of Mongolian law and international corporate responsibility guidelines by Centerra Gold Inc. in its Mongolian operations.

Corporate Accountability, Mongolia, Corporate Social Responsibility, Centerra Gold
Troubled Waters: How Mine Waste Dumping is Poisoning Our Oceans, Rivers and Lakes
Tuesday, February 28, 2012

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 report released today by two leading mining reform groups.

Canada, Metal Mining Effluent Regulations, Water, British Columbia, Ok Tedi Mine - BHP-Billiton/Inmet, Manitoba, Porgera Mine - Barrick, Indonesia, Newfoundland & Labrador, Waste Rock and Tailings, Northwest Territories, Reforming Mining Laws and Policies, Papua New Guinea, Ontario, Québec, Saskatchewan, Environment, Barrick Gold, BHP-Billiton, Cliffs, 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)
SOPAC Framework on Deep Seabed Mining Will Disenfranchise Pacific Peoples
Wednesday, February 15, 2012

News release: NGOs across the Pacific are criticising the Secretariat of the Pacific Community's (SOPAC) proposal for a legislative and regulatory framework for deep sea mineral exploration and mining.

Water, Papua New Guinea, Subsea mining, Nautilus Minerals
Report Details Unacceptable Impacts from Deep Sea Mining by Canada's Nautilus Minerals
Thursday, November 24, 2011

News Release: The Centre for Environmental Law and Community Rights in Papua New Guinea and MiningWatch Canada and have released a new report called "Out of Our Depth." It details serious environmental and social impacts expected as a result of unprecedented mining of the ocean floor. 

Water, Papua New Guinea, Subsea mining, Nautilus Minerals
Philippine Province Bans Open Pit Mining – Affects TVI Pacific’s Operations
Tuesday, November 8, 2011

News release: The government of Zamboanga del Norte in the Philippines has issued an ordinance prohibiting new open pit mines in the province.

Canatuan Project - TVI Pacific, Corporate Accountability, Corporate Social Responsibility, Philippines, Human Rights, TVI Pacific
Ivanhoe Flees Opposition in the Philippines
Tuesday, October 18, 2011

News release: Ivanhoe Philippines, Inc. has asked the Philippine Mines and Geosciences Bureau for a "withdrawal of the company's exploration permit applications (...) in Tablas Island."

Corporate Accountability, Philippines, Ivanhoe
MiningWatch and Papua New Guinea Partners File Complaint on Porgera Mine
Monday, June 6, 2011

On March 1, 2011, MiningWatch Canada and our Papua New Guinea partners from Akali Tange Association and the Porgera Landowners Association filed a “Request for Review” with the Canadian National Contact Point for the OECD Guidelines on Multinational Enterprises.

Porgera Mine - Barrick, Corporate Accountability, Corporate Social Responsibility, Papua New Guinea, Barrick Gold, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, Newsletter 30: Spring 2011
Mining Mongolia: Ivanhoe, T-shirts, NGOs, and Wikileaks
Sunday, June 5, 2011

In 2005, Robert Friedland, chairman of the Vancouver-based Ivanhoe Mines Ltd., famously regaled potential investors in Florida with his Mongolian mega-project, the “cash machine we really intend to build,” – a massive copper-gold and coal project in the southern Gobi desert called Oyu Tolgoi or Turquoise Hill.

Corporate Accountability, Mongolia, Corporate Social Responsibility, Newsletter 30: Spring 2011, Ivanhoe
FPIC: The 'C' stands for 'Consent'
Friday, May 20, 2011

Free, prior and informed consent (FPIC) is clearly established as an international human rights norm. The right of Indigenous peoples to grant or withhold approval for actions affecting their rights is an integral element of the right of self-determination. Article 3 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) reflects the right of self-determination in common article 1 of the two human rights Covenants.

Australia, Canada, Corporate Accountability, United States, Indigenous Rights
Indigenous Papua New Guinea Leaders Protest Ongoing Abuses at Barrick’s Porgera Mine
Thursday, May 5, 2011

News release: (Ottawa, May 5, 2011) For the fourth year in a row, Indigenous Ipili leaders from Porgera in Papua New Guinea (PNG) are in Canada to protest ongoing severe environmental impacts and human rights abuses associated with Barrick’s Porgera mine.

Porgera Mine - Barrick, Corporate Accountability, Corporate Social Responsibility, Papua New Guinea, Barrick Gold, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights

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