The Quebec Meilleure Mine coalition is concerned with the recent 3 million dollar loan from Third Eye Capital to the uranium promotion company Strateco to finance its 190 million dollar lawsuit against the Quebec government. Strateco, a junior company on the verge of bankruptcy, is suing the Quebec government for not licensing its controversial Matoush uranium advanced exploration project in James Bay, Quebec.

(Quebec, 22 October 2015) The Coalition Quebec Meilleure Mine welcomes most of the provisions in the new Mining Transparency Act (Bill 55) passed yesterday, but warns it should have required full disclosure of all payments made by mining companies to different levels of governments and their agencies – not just those above $100,000.

(Guatemala/Ottawa/Washington/Tatamagouche) Forty-eight international organizations are calling for an investigation into the second armed attack in as many years against a well-known activist who is part of the peaceful resistance to Tahoe Resources’ Escobal silver mine in southeastern Guatemala.

(Courtenay, B.C., October 16, 2015) The B.C. Government’s Mining Code Review is a good first step towards preventing another Mount Polley tailings pond disaster, but fails to look at the broader changes needed to make mining safe, says a joint submission by concerned groups.

(Québec, October 16, 2015) In response to recent Investissement Quebec declarations regarding the withdrawal of Yara International from the Arnaud mining project in Sept-Iles, a Quebec coalition of environmental, community, and labour groups is calling for an end to the project and for an independent public inquiry on the social, environmental, and economic fiasco this project represents.

The Canadian Ambassador to Mexico is apparently not worried about violence, kidnapping and extortion at Canadian mine sites.

By Üstün B. Reinart for the Aegean Environmental Platform

(Turkey) Community groups, professional associations, and environmentalists want Eldorado Gold out of Efemçukuru, Izmir, while the company manœvres behind closed doors to illegally increase capacity three-fold.

Open Letter from the Council of Agrarian Authorities of the Montaña/Costa Chica region of Guerrero in Defence of Territory and against Mining and the Biosphere Reserve and the Mexican Network of Mining Affected Peoples (REMA)

President of the Republic of Mexico, Mr. Enrique Peña Nieto;
Mr./Ms. Minister of Energy and Secretary of Agrarian, Territorial and Urban Development (SEDATU);
National and Foreign Mining Companies;
The Mexican People:

(Updated at 6:19 pm on 29 September 2015) There are lingering tensions among victims of rape by employees of Canadian miner Barrick Gold at its Porgera Joint Venture in Papua New Guinea's Enga province. Barrick Gold is being urged to come clean about its varying levels of compensation for victims.