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Keno City Residents and Businesses Suffering the Effects of Yukon Mining Boom as Alexco Takes Over the Town
Tuesday, March 20, 2012

A major mining boom is underway in Keno, as in other parts of the Yukon, driven by high mineral prices. But a boom that’s good for exploration and mining companies can have an underside  for communities. The pace of development surrounding Keno is creating conditions that one resident says is like “being trapped in a living hell.” The noise, dust, huge trucks rumbling through town and concerns over exposure to toxic by-products paint a not-so quaint picture of a contemporary mining town.

Abandoned Mines, Canada, Reforming Mining Laws and Policies, Environmental Planning, Economic Development, Yukon, Environment, Environmental Assessment, Impact on Communities
First Nation and Conservation Groups Seek Investigation of Exploration Company God’s Lake Resources by Securities Regulator
Tuesday, March 20, 2012

News release: Today four conservation groups have joined with the northern Ontario Oji-Cree
community Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (KI) to request that the Ontario Securities Commission investigate junior exploration company God’s Lake Resources (stock symbol GLR).

Canada, Reforming Mining Laws and Policies, Ontario, Environmental Planning, Free Entry/Land Access, Gold, Indigenous Rights, Platinex
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
Taseko Mines’ Libel Chill Bid to Silence Opposition Won’t Work - Tŝilhqot’in
Monday, March 5, 2012

News release: (Tŝilhqot’in Territory) The Tŝilhqot’in National Government is shocked that Taseko Mines Ltd. (TML) has launched a defamation suit against an environmental group for questioning the company’s claims that its ‘new’ Prosperity Mine proposal addresses all concerns and will save Teztan Biny (Fish Lake).

Metal Mining Effluent Regulations, 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)
Royalties, Environment and Citizens’ Rights: Survey Results Support Demands of Quebec Mining Reform Coalition
Monday, February 27, 2012

News release: (Montréal) "The survey by Léger Marketing on the mining industry confirms the relevance and importance of our work over the last four years,” said Ugo Lapointe of the Coalition Québec meilleure mine (Better Mining Coalition). According to the survey, a majority of residents of Québec including the Abitibi region (the most active mining area of Québec) agree that there is a need for further reforms to improve royalties, environmental protection and respect of citizens’ rights.

Canada, Reforming Mining Laws and Policies, Québec, Economics & Taxation, Environment, Impact on Communities
MiningWatch Canada Welcomes Drummond Commission’s Recommendation to Examine Mining Taxes
Thursday, February 16, 2012

News release: For over a decade, MiningWatch has been saying that Ontarians should be getting a better share of the resource wealth that is extracted in the province. MiningWatch welcomed the recommendation to eliminate a key tax break for mining companies and to review the mining tax system in the recently released report from the Commission on the Reform of Ontario’s Public Services, chaired by Donald Drummond.

Canada, Reforming Mining Laws and Policies, Ontario, Economics & Taxation
Two Killed in Panama Mining Protests
Wednesday, February 8, 2012

News Alert: Two indigenous Ngöbe-Buglé men were killed and dozens more injured in connection with a police crackdown on dissent over mining and hydroelectric developments in Panama, where Canadian mining companies have a significant presence.

Reforming Mining Laws and Policies, Panama, Human Rights, Inmet, Petaquilla Minerals
Honduran Civil Society Groups Reject Proposed Mining Law That Puts Corporate Interests Before Human Rights
Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Communiqué: Twenty-one Honduran environmental, indigenous and human rights organizations have issued a joint statement demanding that the Honduran government create space for real and effective debate over a proposed new mining law. They also report that the congressional commission that wrote the law has been under pressure to get it passed.

Reforming Mining Laws and Policies, Corporate Social Responsibility, Aura Minerals, Honduras, Breakwater Resources, Goldcorp
Wahgoshig First Nation (Ontario) Wins Injunction Against Solid Gold Resources' Exploration
Wednesday, January 4, 2012

News release: (Toronto) The Ontario Superior Court of Justice has ordered that Solid Gold Resources Corp. cannot carry on any further exploration activity on its claims block for 120 days, and that during this time the company and the Ontario Crown must engage with Wahgoshig in a process of meaningful consultation and accommodation about any such further exploration.

Reforming Mining Laws and Policies, Ontario, Free Entry/Land Access, Impact on Communities

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