(Toronto/Ottawa) The family of Mariano Abarca, a highly respected community leader who was murdered in late 2009 after leading peaceful protests over the impacts of a Canadian-owned mine, has applied for judicial review of a decision from the Public Sector Integrity Commissioner.

The Commissioner refused to investigate allegations that the Canadian Embassy in Mexico provided support to Blackfire Exploration, which put Mr. Abarca’s life at greater risk.

We the maritime communities from the Bismarck and Solomon Seas have been resisting Nautilus Minerals experimental projects since 2008.

Our seas are recognized and protected by our cultural and custom knowledge and as custodians and gatekeepers of this heritage, we recognize that Solwara 1 Project is a dangerous and bad investment.

(Toronto) A delegation representing Alaskan business leaders, Bristol Bay Tribes, commercial fishermen and conservation organizations will appear today at the annual meeting of First Quantum Minerals to give shareholders a message: the Pebble Mine is a bad investment.

“Bristol Bay, and the world’s greatest wild salmon fishery it supports, must be protected,” said Robin Samuelson, Board Chair of the Bristol Bay Economic Development Corporation. “The Pebble Mine is the wrong mine in the wrong place.”

The Sisson Mine project (Northcliff/HDI/Todd Minerals) is currently applying for permission to dump millions of tons of mining waste into the headwaters of the pristine Nashwaak river and watershed. The federal government, through Environment Canada, is accepting comments from the public until May 3, 2018.

Act now to reject this project and protect the Nashwaak river

From April 27 to 30, MiningWatch partners will be joining delegates from Canada and the Global South will participate in the International Gathering of Women Resisting Extractivism in Montreal. This gathering will bring together more than 40 land and life defenders from around the world to share their experiences and strategies of resistance, as well as to speak out against the threats they are facing because of their work.

(Ottawa) MiningWatch Canada invites the media and the public to attend an information session on April 28, 2018, in Coniston/Sudbury, about Noront’s recent bid to find a ‘willing community’ in northern Ontario to host a ferrochrome plant to process it’s highly speculative Ring of Fire’s chromite deposits. This information session is hosted by the Coalition for a Liveable Sudbury and the Laurentian University School of the Environment. It is free, open to the public and will welcome four experts and guest speakers to answer questions from the public.

Quebec City. While the “Objectif Nord” conference is being held today in Quebec City, a coalition of citizen and environmental organizations is sounding the alarm about the hidden face of transportation electrification, an unprecedented “mining boom” observed in many regions of Quebec and associated environmental impacts.

(Toronto) As shareholders assess the past year’s operations at Barrick Gold’s Annual General Meeting, victims of ongoing human rights abuses at the Porgera mine in Papua New Guinea and the North Mara mine in Tanzania demand that Barrick do more to halt violence by mine security and police at these mines, and ensure equitable remedy for all victims of mine-related human rights abuses. 

Thirteen environmental and nature groups sent a letter to the Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Catherine McKenna, on April 18, 2018, in response to the Discussion Paper on the Proposed Project List under the proposed Impact Assessment Act, Part 1 of Bill C-69, An Act to enact the Impact Assessment Act and the Canadian Energy Regulator Act, to amend the Navigation Protection Act and to make consequential amendments to other Acts that was published on February 8, 2018, to express concern about the public consultation process to revise the 

This year we have two topics, with special guests to present and discuss them with us. All are invited.

“Silent No More: Women Resisting Mining and Demanding Justice”

Our partners in Canada and overseas call on the federal government to act to prevent harms and give access to remedies for women affected by Canadian mining here and abroad. With