Trial of Water Defenders in El Salvador Begins October 8 

Leading international groups, lawyers, and academics announce consecutive weeks of action to call on the Salvadoran government to drop charges ahead of Oct. 8 trial against five prominent water defenders known as the "Santa Marta Five."

By Olivia Alperstein, John Cavanagh, Pedro Cabezas

MONTREAL - After years fighting against the opening of a mining project with ties to the Pentagon, Louis Saint-Hilaire is breathing a sigh of relief.

That’s because this week, the Quebec government rejected the mining company’s application for public funding, a decision Saint-Hilaire says reflects the will of many of the people who live near the proposed site in the Laurentians region.

“It’s a big victory for us, but it’s not a total victory,” he said in an interview Wednesday.

“We are dying, ...we have no shelter from the rain, ...we are eating tree bark”

Ottawa – An already desperate situation at the site of Barrick Gold Corp.’s (Barrick) New Porgera Ltd.’s (Porgera) gold mine in the highlands of Papua New Guinea has become deadly for local Indigenous villagers in Porgera, who wonder why Barrick is doing nothing to help them.

MiningWatch Canada and the Coalition Québec Meilleure Mine hereby submit their joint comments on the Government of Canada's Emergency Order to Protect Boreal Caribou Habitat in Quebec (hereinafter, the "Federal Order") as part of the consultation process announced on June 19, 2024 and ending today.

Today, dozens of people from rural communities in the Dominican Republic living next to the world’s sixth largest gold mine are joined by allies from across the country as they enter their third day of protests. Over the last two days, community members marched over 100 kilometers to the capital, Santo Domingo, culminating with today’s protest in front of the National Palace and the Ministries of Mining and the Environment.

Jacob Lorinc, Bloomberg

The sudden collapse of Victoria Gold Corp.’s Eagle Mine — and with it, the company — is part of a long and ugly history in northern Canada.

To this day, Canada’s federal government is still cleaning up arsenic and cyanide spills from mines that were abandoned by their owners decades ago. The country’s taxpayers are footing the bill.

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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 ‘failure to comply’ leads to disaster.

Mining operations in B.C. store wet waste in tailings 'ponds' shored up by a dam. A dam failure could be catastrophic for watersheds and communities.

Shannon Waters, The Narwhal

The Mount Polley mine in B.C.’s Interior is home to the most notorious tailings dam in the province. But it’s far from the only mining waste storage facility raising concerns.

A faulty tailings dam at the B.C. mine dumped billions of litres of waste into the environment — and Quesnel Lake is still contaminated. Now Imperial Metals wants to expand the same dam

Shannon Waters, The Narwhal

It was a Monday morning and the sun had just begun to rise when Doug Watt received an alarming phone call from his local fire and rescue department on Aug. 4, 2014.