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Political contributions, DFO letters, raise more questions about BC’s approval of bad mine
Friday, September 24, 2010

Tsilhqot’in National Government news release: Political contribution records show that Taseko Mines Ltd suddenly began funding the BC Liberal Party as the province moved towards an environmental review of its Prosperity mine proposal. DFO letters show that the department – which has continued to object to the net losses that would still result from Taseko’s plan to build a small fake lake reservoir to replace Teztan Biny – declared the project out of bounds 15 years ago.

Water, British Columbia, Corporate Accountability, Reforming Mining Laws and Policies, Environmental Planning, Environmental Assessment, Indigenous Rights, Taseko
Guatemala Suspends Marlin mine - Human rights and environmental organizations applaud the decision, urge President Colom’s government to protect communities against retaliation
Thursday, June 24, 2010

Joint news release with CIEL: (Ottawa and Washington, D.C., June 24, 2010) — Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom announced yesterday that he is suspending operations at the Marlin mine, operated by Vancouver-based Goldcorp, Inc. According to the Guatemalan government, the process to shut down the mine might take months. The Center for International Environmental Law and MiningWatch Canada are calling on the government to complete the administrative process in a timely fashion.

Corporate Accountability, Guatemala, Goldcorp
Judge Rules that Canadian Ambassador Slandered Documentary Video Maker – Both Ambassador and Canadian Government ordered to pay almost $10,000 in damages and costs
Thursday, June 17, 2010

News Release from Klippensteins, Barristers and Solicitors: (Toronto, June 16, 2010) An Ontario judge has ruled that former Canadian Ambassador to Guatemala, Kenneth Cook, slandered Ph.D. student and videographer Steven Schnoor by making false statements about a documentary video that Schnoor made that was critical of the practices of a Canadian mining company.

Corporate Accountability, Guatemala, HudBay Minerals, Skye, Vale (incl. Inco)
Bill C-300 – Private Member's Bill Promotes Industry and Government Accountability
Tuesday, January 5, 2010

On February 9, 2009, Liberal Member of Parliament John McKay tabled a private member’s bill in the House of Commons. Bill C-300, titled An Act respecting Corporate Accountability for the Activities of Mining, Oil or Gas in Developing Countries, would codify a number of key recommendations on accountability for Canadian extractive companies operating in developing countries from the March 2007 Final Report of the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Roundtables.

Bill C-300, Corporate Accountability, Corporate Social Responsibility, Newsletter 27: Winter 2009-2010
Another Protester Against Pacific Rim Mining Corporation's El Dorado Project Assassinated in El Salvador - Second Community Activist Killed in Less Than a Week
Monday, December 28, 2009

Joint communiqué with CISPES (Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador): On December 26, 2009, Dora “Alicia” Recinos Sorto, age 32, was assassinated, the second anti-mining activist killed this week in the small community of Nueva Trinidad in the department of Cabañas. Recinos Sorto was eight months pregnant and carrying her two-year old child when she was shot on her way back from doing laundry at a nearby river. She and her husband, José Santos Rodríguez, were outspoken opponents of the proposed El Dorado mine which Pacific Rim, a Vancouver-based mining company, is desperate to open despite widespread community opposition.

Corporate Accountability, Corporate Social Responsibility, El Salvador, Pacific Rim
Mining and Jewelry Industry Self Certification System Falls Short
Monday, December 21, 2009

Joint news release with CAFOD, the Canadian Boreal Initiative, Earthworks, Great Basin Resource Watch, the International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers' Unions, and the Western Shoshone Defense Project: A mining and jewelry industry trade association -- the Responsible Jewellery Council -- launched its certification scheme this week. The RJC is comprised of mining and jewelry companies -- the very entities the certification scheme would govern. Unfortunately, RJC's system primarily serves to illustrate the need for independent, third-party monitoring.

Corporate Accountability, Corporate Social Responsibility, Gold
Documents Show Corruption and Intimidation by Canadian Mining Firm Blackfire in Its Mexican operations – Ottawa Must Investigate Immediately
Friday, December 18, 2009

Joint news release with Common Frontiers-Canada, the Council of Canadians, and the United Steelworkers: Documents recently filed by the Mexican Network of People Affected by Mining (REMA, from the Spanish) with the Chiapas Attorney General’s Office have exposed Blackfire’s involvement in the corruption of local officials for the purpose of intimidating opponents to the company's open pit barite mine. “We have obtained documents – which Blackfire admits are genuine – that clearly show payments of US$1,000 a month going directly into the Mayor of Chicomuselo’s bank account on the understanding that municipal authorities would keep community members opposed to the mine under control,” explained Rick Arnold, coordinator for Common Frontiers-Canada.

Corporate Accountability, Corporate Social Responsibility, Mexico, Blackfire
Guatemalan Community Leaders ask Canadian Government to Investigate Human Rights Violations Allegedly Committed by Goldcorp Inc. at Marlin Mine
Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Joint news release with CIEL, the Center for International Environmental Law: A coalition of community groups from San Miguel Ixtahuacán, Guatemala, has filed an OECD complaint with the Canadian government requesting an investigation into human rights violations allegedly committed by Goldcorp Inc. at the company's Marlin gold mine. “The Marlin mine has divided our town, harassed protesters, and made us afraid for the health of our families,” said Sister Maudilia López Cardona with the San Miguel Ixtahuacán Catholic parish and coordinator of the FREDEMI coalition (the Front in Defence of San Miguel Ixtahuacán). “Is this economic development? Could Goldcorp do this in Canada?”

Corporate Accountability, Corporate Social Responsibility, Guatemala, Goldcorp
Canadian Company Accused of Disobeying Court, Misleading Shareholders - Citizens’ group argues New Gold violated disclosure rules in a complaint lodged with BC Securities Commission
Tuesday, November 10, 2009

MONTREAL – Controversy continues to embroil Canadian New Gold Inc. (TSX:NGD) and its Cerro de San Pedro mining operation as the November 2nd press release issued by its public-relations firm Peak Communicators Ltd. regarding a recent ruling of the Mexican Federal Tribunal of Administrative and Fiscal Justice is put into question.

Corporate Accountability, Corporate Social Responsibility, Mexico, Metallica Resources, New Gold
MiningWatch Appeals to U.N. over Human Rights Abuses Related to Barrick Mine in Papua New Guinea
Friday, May 8, 2009

MiningWatch Canada has sent an Urgent Appeal to several United Nations Special Rapporteurs regarding human rights abuses near Barrick Gold’s Porgera Joint Venture (PJV) mine in Papua New Guinea.

Porgera Mine - Barrick, Corporate Accountability, Corporate Social Responsibility, Barrick Gold, Militarisation

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