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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)
Focus on Mining Giant Vale at World Social Forum
Tuesday, January 5, 2010

At the invitation of Brazilian activists who are supporting communities struggling against multinational mining giant Vale (formerly Companhia Vale do Rio Doce) in Brazil, and with support from the Steelworkers Humanity Fund and the Canadian Auto Workers Social Justice Fund, MiningWatch’s Catherine Coumans attended the World Social Foru

Goro and Prony, INCO in Sulawesi, Labrador, Sulawesi, Brazil, Indonesia, Newfoundland & Labrador, New Caledonia, Ontario, Health, Labour, Newsletter 27: Winter 2009-2010, Vale (incl. Inco)
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
Watchdogs Call For Immediate Ban on Mine Waste Dumping
Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Joint news release: Oxfam Australia, Mineral Policy Institute and MiningWatch Canada

Australian, Canadian, and US mining companies that persist in dumping billions of tonnes of toxic heavy metals such as mercury and lead into the rivers and oceans of some of the world's poorest countries are causing irreversible environmental damage as well as driving human poverty. This warning came from a coalition of human rights groups and mining watchdogs as mining ministers from the Asia-Pacific region gather in Perth this week for a summit.

Ok Tedi Mine - BHP-Billiton/Inmet, Porgera Mine - Barrick, Indonesia, Barrick Gold, Submarine/Subaqueous Tailings Disposal, Inmet
Community Leaders from Indonesia, Guatemala, New Caledonia, and Canada Discuss Struggles Against Inco
Friday, February 2, 2007

A unique opportunity presented itself as a result of the Roundtables on Corporate Social Responsibility and the Extractive Sector in Developing Countries. On November 13th, 2006, MiningWatch Canada brought together a panel in Montreal made up of community leaders from Indonesia, Guatemala, New Caledonia, and Canada who discussed their struggles against Inco (now CVRD-Inco, having been acquired by the Brazilian firm CVRD-Companhia Vale do Rio Doce).

Goro and Prony, INCO in Sulawesi, Sulawesi, Corporate Accountability, New Caledonia, Corporate Social Responsibility, Ontario, Guatemala, Newsletter 24: Winter 2006-2007, Vale (incl. Inco)
New Book: "Reverse Anthropology: Indigenous Analysis of Social and Environmental Relations in New Guinea"
Tuesday, October 24, 2006

by Stuart Kirsch
Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2006
cloth $55.00, paperback $21.95
see http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?book_id=5341%5342 for ordering details

Ok Tedi Mine - BHP-Billiton/Inmet, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, BHP-Billiton, Newsletter 23: Summer/Autumn 2006, Inmet
Protests and Blockades Continue Against Inco in Indonesia
Wednesday, September 28, 2005

Mining Advocacy Network (JATAM) – MiningWatch Canada – Society for Corporate Environmental and Social Responsibility (CESR)

For Immediate Release

Today, Wednesday, September 28, 2005, over five hundred people are staging a blockade at the PT Inco mine site in Sorowako, Indonesia while facing intimidation by hired men to break up the blockade and create horizontal conflict within the community. Several people earlier detained by police for several hours have been released.

INCO in Sulawesi, Sulawesi, Indonesia, Vale (incl. Inco)
Save Indonesia's Protected Forest Areas from Mining
Wednesday, September 14, 2005
Deforestation in Indonesia has reached 2.4 million hectares (1.2%) per year or approximately 10 acres of rainforest a minute. Mining multinational companies and foreign governments are lobbying the Indonesian government to open up protected forest areas, national parks and other protected areas for mining while local communities and environmental justice groups are ...
Sulawesi, Indonesia, Barrick Gold, BHP-Billiton, Newmont, Placer Dome, Rio Tinto
"Spare our homeland" rainforest tribes plead with B.C. mining giant
Wednesday, September 14, 2005
Provincial governments, indigenous peoples, environmentalists and academics from Canada to Asia to Australia are lining up to stop mining giant Placer Dome from tearing down a rainforest on the island of Borneo to hunt for gold.The company is eyeing the last remaining native forest in Kalimantan called the Meratus Mountain Range, which is on the Indonesian side of Borneo.The ...
Indonesia, Barrick Gold, Placer Dome
Government and Community Demand Placer Dome Out of Borneo
Wednesday, September 14, 2005
The government of South Kalimantan (Borneo), Indonesia, and Dayak Indigenous Community leaders have strongly denounced Placer Dome, a Vancouver and Sydney-based mining company, for its plans to commence mining operations in one of the last protected tropical forests in Indonesia. Despite fierce local government and community backlash, the mining giant intends to exploit mineral ...
Indonesia, Barrick Gold, Placer Dome

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