Joint blog by MiningWatch Canada and Earthworks.

People living near the world's sixth-largest gold mine are taking legal action to protect their communities, ecosystems, and their rights.

Local communities and civil society organizations have filed two constitutional protection actions (amparos) calling for an immediate halt to Barrick Mining Corporation's recent efforts to begin construction of their massive new dam that would hold mine waste, including tailings and waste rock. 

Peggy Nash, Viviana Herrera and Caren Weisbart, originally published in the Hill Times

Human rights, not corporate rights, should drive international trade relations under this new government.

International relations today are rife with difficult challenges to peace, security, democracy, the rule of law, human rights, and a healthy environment. 

Environmental defenders in Southern Ecuador filed an injunction (medida cautelar) against Canadian-owned Loma Larga project and announced several actions protesting the arbitrary decision of the Ministry of Environment, Water and Ecological Transition (“MAATE”) to grant an environmental licence for exploitation to Dundee Precious Metals. 

As the Chairman of the Porgera Landowners Association (PLA), I am compelled to respond to the recent statement by Prime Minister James Marape on the achievements of New Porgera Limited (NPL) in the first quarter of 2025.

Duhamel, July 8, 2025 — After six years of criticizing the La Loutre mining project for its incompatibility with the environmental, economic, and tourist resources of the Outaouais region, the Regroupement de protection des Lacs de la Petite-Nation (RPLPN) is launching a grassroots civic engagement campaign ahead of the local referendums regarding the mine's social acceptance, which will be held simultaneously on August 31 in the municipalities of Duhamel, Lac des Plages, Lac Simon, Chénéville, and Saint-Émile de Suffolk.

Quito-Ottawa: Yesterday, July 2, 2025, 283 Ecuadorian, Canadian, and international organizations, unions, and coalitions sent a letter expressing deep concern about the systematic criminalization of 29 human rights and land defenders in Bolivar province in Ecuador, due to their legitimate and peaceful opposition to the Canadian owned Curipamba-El Domo mining project.

A North American labour dispute panel is examining allegations union members were threatened into joining a competing union.

by Isaac Phan Nay

The union for workers at the Camino Rojo mine in Zacatecas, Mexico, is calling for Canada and the United States to resolve allegations its members were threatened into joining a competing union.

Orla Mining, a $3.8-billion company based in Vancouver, owns and operates the gold and silver mine, which sits 580 kilometres northwest of Mexico City.

(Unceded Anishinaabe Algonquin Territories – Ottawa) Environmental and civil society groups condemn Parliament’s reckless passage of Bill C-5’s controversial Building Canada Act. The Act erodes democratic principles, runs roughshod over Indigenous rights, shuts Canadians out of decisions that could affect them, and puts the environment at risk.

July 20, 2025 – Global Activation to Stop Deep-Sea Mining: Take to the water for a moratorium 

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