(Ottawa) While MiningWatch Canada is pleased that the National Orphaned and Abandoned Mining Initiative (NOAMI) has finally released the first, pan-Canadian inventory of contaminated mine sites just this week, the organisation is also concerned that key provinces and territories are missing from the inventory.
(Ottawa) Two women who have suffered sexual violence at the hands of mine security at Barrick’s massive Porgera Joint Venture mine in Papua New Guinea appealed directly to the Government of Canada today. They seek help in accessing equitable remedy for the mining-related harm they and other villagers are suffering.
(Malartic, Quebec) Malartic community members living closest to the biggest open pit mine next to city in Canada are pleased with today’s Quebec Superior Court authorizing a class action suit for damages they suffer from the dust, noise and daily blasts for years. The Court gave its ‘go-ahead’ for a suit which could amount to more than $40 million, including $20 million in exemplary damages against some of the company's behaviour. The mine is co-owned by Agnico Eagle & Yamana Gold.
(Vancouver) Community members joined Vancouver’s Mining Justice Alliance outside Nevsun Resources’ Annual General Meeting today to present over 240,000 signatures on petitions calling for the company’s shareholders to divest from operations in Eritrea, a country where forced labour is widespread.
Scientists and civil society organisations from around the world welcome Apple’s 2017 Environment Responsibility Report announcing the communication technology giant’s goal to “stop mining the earth altogether”[1]. They call on other companies to match this commitment.
Community members will join Vancouver’s Mining Justice Alliance outside Nevsun Resources’ Annual General Meeting on Wednesday, May 3rd, to call attention to accusations that the company profits from slave labour at its Bisha gold/copper mine in Eritrea. The group will present a petition and make the case that the company’s investors must divest from operations in Eritrea, a country where forced labour is widespread.
‘They like raping us, the security guards’
By Hilary Beaumont on Apr 26, 2017
Two women from Papua New Guinea flew half-way around the world this week to tell their stories of sexual assault at a Canadian mining giant’s shareholders’ meeting — but when they arrived at the meeting, they say they were told they couldn’t speak.
(Toronto) Today, for the first time, Barrick’s directors and shareholders heard directly from two women who have suffered sexual violence at the hands of mine security at the company’s massive Porgera Joint Venture mine in Papua New Guinea.
Barrick’s directors and shareholders heard first-hand about excess use of force by private and public mine security guarding the Porgera Joint Venture mine in Papua New Guinea when indigenous Ipili men travelled to Canada to speak out at Barrick’s AGM. In 2008, 2009, and 2010 Ipili men stood up in the shareholder’s meeting and told company directors and shareholders about killings and rapes of local men, women and children by mine security. These allegations were repeatedly met with denial by Barrick.
