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I am writing to you on behalf of MiningWatch Canada regarding the tragic attack on 26 December 2002 upon community members from Canatuan, Siocon, Zamboanga del Norte. Madam President we wish to express through you our sympathy for the victims of this act of violence. It is of great personal regret to me that this violence was related to the operations of a Canadian mining company, TVI Pacific. When I met you in Ottawa with Congressman Reyes from Marinduque, almost exactly a year ago, we discussed the ravages left behind by the Canadian mining company, Placer Dome Inc. Now I must write to you to urge your Government to act to address the sources of violence in the Canatuan area. It is clear to us that the presence of TVI has been a source of tragedy, tension and conflict since their first arrival in the area in 1994.

Joint release by the Kanak Senat Coutumier and Action Biosphere of New Caledonia, and MiningWatch Canada

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Imagine a gathering of 125 mining activists from all over the western USA and Canada, environmentalists, biologists, geologists, community organisers, First Nations and Native American people, researchers and academics. The combination of creativity and determination would be phenomenal. Well, every two years, the Western Mining Activist Network (WMAN) brings together just such a diversity of people. This year, twenty-two Canadians, many of them First Nations, joined our colleagues from the US in Albuquerque, New Mexico, at the beginning of November.