In Mexico, the government promotes the exploitation of lithium as part of an effort to strengthen national sovereignty, justifying mining by designating lithium extraction as being in the public interest. But what is being promoted as positive and necessary for the country's development is in fact a project strongly tied to private capital – one that poses high risks to the public treasury, while being based on the dispossession, destruction and militarization of the territories where this mineral is located.

(Sept-Îles, Québec, Montréal) Without questioning the importance of the Bloom Lake mine for Fermont city and the Innu communities, eleven local and national organizations as well as three persons from Mani-Utenam and Moisie are calling on federal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault not to authorize the destruction of lakes to store tailings and waste rock in Fermont, as proposed by Quebec Iron Ore (QIO).

Canadian companies have been linked to allegations of killings, torture, forced labour, arbitrary detention and intimidation amongst other abuses, according to six new reports published this morning by the Canadian Network on Corporate Accountability (CNCA).

A new manifesto critiques the "clean energy" transitions of the Global North and offers an alternative vision from the Global South.

"The energy transition should be part of a comprehensive vision that addresses radical inequality in the distribution of energy resources and advances energy democracy. It should de-emphasize large-scale institutions—corporate agriculture, huge energy companies—as well as market-based solutions. Instead, it must strengthen the resilience of civil society and social organizations."

Minister Wilkinson of Natural Resources and Minister Murray of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard issued a statement today on seabed mining that fails to align Canada with global calls for a moratorium on seabed mining in international waters.

Underwater mining to make batteries could create ‘a massive deadzone’ on the ocean floor. Canada has issued a temporary domestic ban — but regulating international waters is trickier

Francesca Fionda, The Narwhal

Olivia Rosane, EcoWatch

A leaked video of a deep-sea mining test showing a plume of sediment being released into the ocean is reigniting concerns about the controversial practice. 

Galiano Gold says authorities investigating deaths of contractors near a tailings storage facility

CBC News

A Vancouver-based gold mining company is reporting the deaths of two contractors at its operation in the West African country of Ghana.

Frank Landymore, Futurism

A group of scientists hired by a Canadian firm to monitor its deep sea mining operations was so alarmed by the firm's careless discharging of sediments into the ocean, The Guardian reports, they covertly recorded the dumping and leaked it to the public.

Leyland Cecco, The Guardian

Video footage from a deep-sea mining test, showing sediment discharging into the ocean, has raised fresh questions about the largely untested nature of the industry, and the possible harms it could do to ecosystems as companies push to begin full-scale exploration of the ocean floor as early as this year.

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