Burma

Halifax Initiative Publishes Canadian Mining Map
Wednesday, February 21, 2007

The Canadian mining map was produced by the Halifax Initiative during the National Roundtables on Corporate Social Responsibility and the Canadian Extractive Industry in Developing Countries. The Roundtables, which took place between June and November of 2006, fulfilled one of the recommendations made in the groundbreaking report, Mining in Developing Countries and Corporate Social Responsibility, tabled by the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade (SCFAIT) in June 2005.

Canatuan Project - TVI Pacific, Congo - Democratic Republic, Goro and Prony, INCO in Sulawesi, Kashipur Bauxite Project, Udon Thani - Asia Pacific Resources, Bolivia, Bulgaria, Burma, Marcopper Mine, Sulawesi, Chile, Corporate Accountability, Kyrgyz Republic, Colombia, Indonesia, Nevada, Romania, Anvil, New Caledonia, Spain, Tanzania, Corporate Social Responsibility, Philippines, Guatemala, Thailand, Guyana, Mexico, Barrick Gold, Peru, Suriname, Cambior, Cameco, Dundee Precious Metals, Gabriel Resources, Glamis Gold, Goldcorp, Golden Star, IAMGOLD, Ivanhoe, Metallica Resources, New Gold, Orvana, Placer Dome, Rio Tinto Alcan, TVI Pacific
Canadian Mining Companies Profit from Burma's Misery
Monday, September 18, 2000

[News release] The largest single mining investment in Burma, Ivanhoe Mines Ltd., is a company registered in the Yukon to take advantage of Canada's generous tax breaks for foreign exploration and development.

Burma, Corporate Accountability, Ivanhoe
Why Ivanhoe Mines is Incorporated in the Yukon: Sanctions and the Taxation of Foreign Mining Investment in Yukon and Canada
Wednesday, September 13, 2000

MiningWatch Canada Backgrounder

1. Sanctions do not include investment. Investment is not included in the sanctions imposed by Canada on Burma in 1997. The sanctions were restricted to imports and exports. According both the First Dynasty and Ivanhoe Mines Annual Information Returns 2000, "the sanctions in their current form do not affect the company's investments in Myanmar". US sanctions include investment.

Burma, Corporate Accountability, Reforming Mining Laws and Policies, Economics & Taxation, Yukon, Ivanhoe
Grave Diggers: A Report on Mining in Burma
Friday, September 1, 2000

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.

Burma, Corporate Accountability, Human Rights, Militarisation, Publications, Ivanhoe

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