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Shareholders Announce Resolution to Suspend Controversial Goldcorp Mine in Guatemala
Tuesday, March 22, 2011

News release: Shareholders have presented a resolution to Goldcorp asking the company to suspend operations at its embattled Marlin mine in Guatemala's western highlands. The resolution urges the company to voluntarily comply with international recommendations and its own Human Rights Assessment to suspend operations and further mine expansion, pending further investigations and effective state-led consultation with affected communities.

Corporate Accountability, Corporate Social Responsibility, Guatemala, Human Rights, Impact on Communities, Indigenous Rights, Goldcorp
First Anniversary Update on Complaint filed with RCMP over Canadian Mining Company’s Apparent Involvement in Mexican Corruption Case
Thursday, March 10, 2011

Joint news release with Common Frontiers: A year ago today a coalition of nine Canadian non-governmental groups filed a memo with the RCMP asking that Calgary-based Blackfire Exploration Ltd. and its Mexican subsidiary be investigated under the Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act.

Corporate Accountability, Corporate Social Responsibility, Mexico, Blackfire
First Nations and Greens Urge Credit Suisse: No Funds for Taseko's Prosperity Mine
Monday, March 7, 2011

Joint news release with EARTHWORKS: First Nations and environmentalists are urging a major international financial institution to say "no" if Taseko Mines Ltd. seeks funding for its revised proposal for the open-pit Prosperity mine, which would threaten the traditional way of life of the Tsilhqot'in people and a celebrated trout lake high in the Chilcotin Mountains of British Columbia.

Metal Mining Effluent Regulations, Water, British Columbia, Corporate Accountability, Reforming Mining Laws and Policies, Environmental Planning, Environmental Assessment, Gold, Indigenous Rights, Submarine/Subaqueous Tailings Disposal, Water and fisheries, Taseko
CIDA Subsidizes Mining’s Social Responsibility Projects
Tuesday, February 22, 2011

News release: In defence of beleaguered Minister of International Cooperation, Bev Oda, Prime Minister Stephen Harper told Parliament that the Canadian International Development Agency should give money only to “the poorest and the most vulnerable.” This is NOT what CIDA is doing.

Ghana, Corporate Accountability, Corporate Social Responsibility, Barrick Gold, Peru, Rio Tinto
Human Rights Report Confirms Rapes by Security Guards at Barrick Mine in Papua New Guinea
Tuesday, February 1, 2011

News release: A report released today by Human Rights Watch confirms allegations of gang rapes and other human rights abuses by security guards of Barrick Gold’s Porgera Joint Venture mine in Papua New Guinea.

Porgera Mine - Barrick, Corporate Accountability, Papua New Guinea, Barrick Gold, Human Rights
Project to restart asbestos mine in Quebec: A forest in Australia, a cemetery in India?
Thursday, December 9, 2010

Québec. A forest in Australia, a cemetery in India? If Quebeckers felt proud to have an Australian forest named after Québec Premier Jean Charest for his actions to address climate change, how would they feel if, one day, a cemetery in India was named after their Premier to commemorate the victims of Québec asbestos?

Asbestos in Québec, LAB Chrysotile, Corporate Accountability, Asbestos, Québec, Health
Award Winning Mining Company Being Sued for Violent Death of Community Leader: Industry Out of Step with Canadian Values and Expectations
Thursday, December 2, 2010

News release: A recently announced lawsuit against HudBay Minerals Inc. points to the industry's failure to take responsibility for corporate abuses beyond Canadian borders. Paradoxically, the company recently won an award for Corporate Social Responsibility from the Mining Association of Canada. Toronto-based HudBay and two of its subsidiaries are being sued for the death of Adolfo Ich Chamán, who was hacked and shot to death by private security forces employed at the company's nickel mining project in eastern Guatemala on September 27th 2009.

British Columbia, Manitoba, Corporate Accountability, Québec, HudBay Minerals, Iron Ore Company of Canada, Teck
Administrative Tribunal Sides With Communities of Northern Costa Rica, Annuls Infinito Gold's Mining Concession
Wednesday, November 24, 2010

On Wednesday, November 24th, 2010, the Contentious Administrative Tribunal (TCA by its initials in Spanish) sided with the demand of organizations that form part of the Opposition Front to mining in the north of Costa Rica when it ordered the annulment of the concession for gold extraction granted to the transnational company Infinito Gold in the district of Crucitas de Cutris in San Carlos province, along the border of Costa Rica with Nicaragua.

Corporate Accountability, Costa Rica, Infinito Gold
Class Action Filed Against Anvil Mining by Congolese Victims
Tuesday, November 16, 2010

(Adapted from the joint news release.) An association representing Congolese citizens filed a class action against Anvil Mining Limited in a Montreal court on November 8, 2010. The group alleges that by providing logistical assistance the company was involved in human rights abuses, including the massacre by the Congolese military of more than 70 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo in October, 2004.

Congo - Democratic Republic, Corporate Accountability, Anvil, Corporate Social Responsibility, Newsletter 29: Autumn 2010
Suppressed Report Confirms International Violations by Canadian Mining Companies
Monday, October 18, 2010

News release: A report obtained by MiningWatch Canada reveals that Canadian mining companies are implicated in four times as many violations of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) as mining companies from other countries. The report was commissioned by the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) in 2009 but was never released to the public.

Bill C-300, Corporate Accountability, Corporate Social Responsibility

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