MiningWatch Canada joins as a signatory to this letter to Equinox Gold, expressing deep concern over escalating tensions around the Canadian company's Los Filos mine in Mexico.
To Mr. Greg Smith
CEO & President, Equinox Gold
Re: Threats against Carrizalillo ejido and call for respectful negotiations
Th...
On Thursday, March 6th, four members of the peaceful resistance to protect the Kimsakocha páramo in Southern Ecuador – all of them women, and one of them a senior citizen – were attacked by a group of five women carrying various objects like sticks, scissors, and a heavy padlock on a small...
On Sunday, representatives of the community of Carrizalillo, a community of 3,500 located roughly 500 metres from the cyanide leaching pad of Equinox Gold’s Los Filos mine in Guerrero, Mexico, sent a letter to CEO and President Greg Smith. The correspondence denounces a surprise visit to the...
This open letter was written by Proyecto Dulcepamba and was originally posted in Spanish here. Translation by MiningWatch Canada, who is also a signatory.
Three community leaders were sentenced to four years in prison by the Bolívar Criminal Court. The defenders were convicted of an alleged act of...
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On Monday, the Committee for the Defence of Water and Páramo of Santurbán, Colombia rallied outside the Ministry of the Environment in Bogota, Colombia. They presented more than 4,000 signatures to Vice Minister Mauricio Cabrera demanding that a Temporary Reserve Area in the Santurbán region of the...
The Ejido of Carrizalillo has written an open letter to Equinox Gold CEO Greg Smith and Board Chairman Ross Beaty calling on the company to commit to fair negotiations of their temporary land use and social agreements for the operations of the Los Filos mine in Guerrero, Mexico. The agreements are...
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Communities in Ecuador are denouncing an attempt to advance a consultation in the southern community of Escaleras on the issue of mining – a consultation they say is being carried out with only a select handful of people and one that is not necessary, given communities have already voted against...
This open letter was originally published in French in Le Devoir here.
Twice in recent weeks, the Québec government has missed historic opportunities to ensure that its mining laws and practices respect the rights of Indigenous Peoples. First, the province rejected proposed amendments to its Mining...
“We felt displaced in our own homes,” says Rosa Masapanta, the President of the small farmers’ cooperative Associación Flor de Caña in northern Ecuador. On March 11 and 12, 2024, a reported 1000 members of Ecuador’s state security forces descended on Rosa’s community of Palo Quemado and the...
On October 27, 2024, the Ecuadorian military entered the small parish of Palo Quemado in northern Ecuador, temporarily militarizing the community for the third time in less than two years.
According to community residents, at least eight trucks and several vans arrived in Palo Quemado in the early...
MiningWatch Canada applauds the Mitchikanibikok Inik First Nation's major victory over the Quebec government in Quebec Superior Court!
From a statement from the Centre québecois du droit de l'environnement: "Represented by lawyers from the Centre québécois du droit de l’environnement (CQDE) and Ecoju...
The following was written by Dave Jorgenson, a member of Friends of Responsible Economic Development (FRED) in Wells, British Columbia. This article is republished with permission and was originally posted here.
Government seizes Barkerville Gold’s sister operation in Yukon after mis-management and ...