In Honduras, the Canadian government is spending taxpayer dollars to help set up a favourable legal framework for Canadian mining operations against the will of Honduran civil society, while remaining silent about rampant targeted attacks and threats against the press and social movements.

Efforts by the Canadian government and the mining industry to promote and support mining as a core element of international development have lately became the focus of intense and prolonged media coverage, opening the issue up to broader public scrutiny.

"Goldcorp has reaped the benefits of our communities and land while we have reaped the bitter consequences.” - Reina Gamero, teacher and member of the Siria Valley Environmental Committee in Honduras.

Two new maps are now available on our website. The first illustrates a hopeful trend among mining-affected communities to use local votes to demonstrate peaceful resistance to unwanted mining activities. The second is a disturbing window onto the threats and violence that communities and community...

The way the Quebec government has presented the Plan Nord as a non-stoppable project and Premier Charest's responses to its critics make it seem that accepting the plan will be the only way for northern communities to get the government to deal with their pressing social issues.

I spent the early part of this week in Mistissini, the largest Cree community in Eeyou Istchee, the Cree Territory of northern Quebec, particpating in a two-day licencing hearing held by the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC). The hearing was part of the CNSC’s decision process for the...

The Harper Government has introduced an Omnibus Budget Implementation Bill, C-38, which will actually repeal the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act and replace it with a crude hand-drawn facsimile of a real federal environmental assessment process. Tell the Conservatives that Canada’s environment...

Continuation of Vancouver-based Pacific Rim Mining's lawsuit against El Salvador will be costly for all involved: the company, the state and, most of all, the Salvadoran people.

Focusing just on the new Canadian Environmental Assessment Act included in Bill C-38, the proposed budget implementation Act, we find that every one of the government’s proclamations is specious, disingenuous, or plain old horse exhaust.

The month of May may also prove to be a game-changer for the mining industry in Québec. Underreported in the mainstream media, one event should be looked at to understand why opposition to Charest’s aggressive resource extraction agenda has shifted in Québec. The Forum Plan Nord 2012 – The North...

MiningWatch Canada would like to submit these comments on the potential licencing of Strateco’s proposed Matoush Uranium Advanced Exploration Project to the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission.

The Canadian government’s human rights report tabled in Parliament Tuesday regarding implementation of the Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement might as well have been a comic strip of three monkeys: “see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.”

In the last few years, environmental defenders have organized to confront the social and environmental impacts of the mining industry. For their work protecting natural resources and the environment, environmental defenders have been subjected to human rights violations, which include threats...

Map: Since the first local vote in Tambogrande, Peru in 2002, the "consulta", or community referendum, has emerged as a powerful tool for communities affected by unwanted mining projects to voice their collective opinion on a project through engaging in popular democracy. By giving residents of...

Ottawa, May 9, 2012. In paired press releases the Ontario Government and U.S. mining company Cliffs Natural Resources today announced plans to proceed with the next step in the development of a chromite deposit in the area dubbed the “Ring of Fire”. The remote area of northern Ontario and the...

In this submission to the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, the Global Caucus of Indigenous Peoples draws the links between the Doctrine of Discovery and the contemporary Doctrine of Development - both of which have had and continue to have disastrous effects on Indigenous Peoples...