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Mining Injustice Conference: Resisting Extractivism, Lessons and Inspiration from Front-line Communities and Fellow Activists
Tuesday, May 8, 2012

A concern about the social and environmental destruction caused by Canadian mining companies brought me to the fourth annual Mining Injustice Conference organized by the Mining Injustice Solidarity Network, held at the University of Toronto.

Canada, Water, Corporate Accountability, Coal, Ontario, Québec, Economic Development, Environmental Assessment, Health, Indigenous Rights, Cartier Resources
No Habitat - No Fish / No Protection - No Habitat
Thursday, March 15, 2012

Blog post: An internal government memo leaked to fisheries biologist Otto Langer suggests that the Federal government plans on removing a crucial provision of the Fisheries Act – one of Canada’s most important environmental laws.

Canada, Water, Environment, Environmental Assessment, Water and fisheries
Taseko Lawsuit Won’t Stop Opposition to “New” Prosperity Mine Project
Tuesday, March 6, 2012

News release: (Ottawa) MiningWatch Canada regrets that Taseko Mines Ltd. has initiated a lawsuit against the Western Canada Wilderness Committee for allegedly making defamatory and inaccurate comments on Taseko’s  proposed “New Prosperity” project.

Metal Mining Effluent Regulations, Water, British Columbia, Reforming Mining Laws and Policies, Environmental Planning, Environmental Assessment, Indigenous Rights, Taseko
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
Video: Co-author presents study "Searching for Gold in the Highlands of Guatemala: Economic Benefits and Environmental Risks of the Marlin Mine”.
Thursday, January 5, 2012

Dr. Lyuba Zarsky, a Senior Research Fellow for the Global Development and Environment Institute at Tufts University, is the co-author of a study on the Marlin Mine,  owned and operated by Vancouver-based Goldcorp Inc. in the western highlands of Guatemala. MiningWatch accompanied Dr. Zarsky during her visit to Ottawa in October 2011.

Water, Corporate Accountability, Guatemala, Goldcorp
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
Tshilquot'in National Government: No to Prosperity Mine
Tuesday, October 25, 2011

In October 2011, representatives of the Tsilhqot'in National Government visited Ottawa to tell elected officials and federal bureaucrats that the "new" proposal by Taseko Mines for their proposed Prosperity Mine was equally as dangerous as the original version turned down in November 2010.

In November 2011, the federal government granted the company a review of its re-worked proposal.

Water, British Columbia, Environmental Planning, Indigenous Rights, Taseko
International Organizations Protest Against the Criminalization of Environmental Defenders in Ecuador
Saturday, September 24, 2011

Open Letter: Civil society organizations in the US and Canada have sent a letter to Ecuadorian authorities in protest against the criminalization of indigenous and non-indigenous environmental defenders. Specifically, the letter speaks out against the criminalization of three leaders in the south-central province of Azuay who have been protesting IAMGOLD's proposed gold-silver project situated in the headwaters of dairy-producing communities.

Water, Ecuador, Human Rights, IAMGOLD
End the Costly and Pointless 'Prosperity' Mine Review Now, Tsilhqot'in Urge
Friday, August 26, 2011

News release: The Tsilhqot’in National Government today called on the Federal government to halt the continuous drain on everyone’s time and resources and to reject Taseko Mines Limited’s rebid for the 'Prosperity' copper-gold mine project.

Metal Mining Effluent Regulations, Water, British Columbia, Environmental Planning, Environmental Assessment, Indigenous Rights, Water and fisheries, Taseko

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