By Jan Morrill, Earthworks and Diana Martin, MiningWatch Canada
This month representatives of communities living in the shadows of the Pueblo Viejo gold mine and their allies traveled almost 30,000 kilometres around the world to draw attention to the impacts of its mining on their homes and families...
Leoncia Ramos lives beside Barrick Mining’s Pueblo Viejo gold mine in the Dominican Republic, where communities report water contamination, air pollution, and other health impacts. Barrick brought Pueblo Viejo back into production in 2012, and has since generated vast quantities of mine waste as...
What is the real cost of Canadian mining abroad, and who is paying the price?
This October, two inspiring community leaders from Haiti and the Dominican Republic are coming to Ottawa to share their firsthand experiences and call for greater accountability for the social, environmental, and human...
The undersigned international organizations express their deep concern regarding the recent escalation of acts of intimidation, harassment, and stigmatization against the Committee for the Defense of Water and the Santurbán Páramo (hereinafter, the Committee). This mounting intimidation follows the...
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This teach-in explores how the Canadian government protects Canadian foreign investors like mining companies in Latin America. It is an introduction to a pesky colonialist tool called "Investor-State Dispute Settlement" (ISDS), which poses serious obstacles to...
We are very excited to be part of the newly-released podcast series Continental Shift, a joint production of Adrienne Buller (The BREAK—DOWN podcast) and Youssef Bouchi (Geopolitical Ecology).
This four-part series on the global rush for critical minerals and what it means for the North American...
MiningWatch Canada adds our name to the following joint letter along with 130+ organizations from around the world, urging Member States to put justice, equity, rights, and accountability at the heart of critical mineral governance. Click here for the full list of signatories.
Excellencies,
Two...
MiningWatch Canada adds our signature to the following letter, calling for anti-SLAPP legislation to be adopted in Alberta. See the full list of signatories here.
We, the undersigned, are Canadian journalists, digital media creators, writers, members of civil society organizations, labour unions...
MiningWatch Canada adds our signature to the following statement in solidarity with the communities of Las Naves, San Luis de Pambil, and Zapotal, and to the Ecumenical Commission on Human Rights (CEDHU) in Ecuador. Communities have faced repression, widespread criminalization, and the rapid...
A couple of weeks ago, a little-known Canadian junior mining company appointed former U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) Kristi Noem to its advisory board. The backlash from Canadians was swift. The company, NovaRed, was flooded with messages telling its President and CEO Brian Goss that...
Today, MiningWatch Canada joined allies in the Canadian Network on Corporate Accountability (CNCA) in denouncing the federal government's decision to shut down the Office of the Canadian Ombudsperson for Responsible Enterprise (CORE).
MiningWatch has long advocated for an effective Ombudsperson who...
The following was co-written by Diana Martin (MiningWatch Canada) and Jan Morrill (Earthworks).
As the world observes World Environment Day 2026, global attention is increasingly focused on the urgent need for climate action and environmental protection. This year’s theme, “Inspired by Nature. For...
Today MiningWatch Canada attended Barrick Mining’s virtual Annual General Meeting. MiningWatch’s Catherine Coumans attended as a proxy holder. She input the four questions below well before the request for questions was made by CEO Mark Hill. When it came time for someone appointed by Barrick to...
