On World Water Day, March 22, allies and supporters of the Tsilhqot’in National Government would like you to take action to protect Teztan Biny-Fish Lake. Let the federal and provincial governments know that you still stand with the Tsilhqot’in communities in opposition to the proposed Prosperity Mine by Taseko Mines Ltd. In her first meeting as premier with Prime Minister Harper, Christy Clark urged Harper to approve the project. Tell them this project must be permanently stopped.

Media Advisory: (Ottawa/Iqaluit) MiningWatch Canada’s Canada Program Coordinator, Ramsey Hart, is on his way to Iqaluit today on the request of the Nunavut non-profit group Nunavummiut Makitagunarningit (Makita for short). Over the next ten days he will be participating with Makita in two different consultation processes on uranium mining in Nunavut.

On March 1, 2011, MiningWatch Canada and two of our partner organizations in Papua New Guinea submitted a Request for Review to the office of the Canadian National Contact Point (NCP) for the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises.

Quebec's struggling asbestos industry has been left in an increasingly precarious position as two long-time supporters, the Quebec labour council CSN (Conseil des syndicats nationaux) and the Canadian government, began to change their tune.

Joint news release with Common Frontiers: A year ago today a coalition of nine Canadian non-governmental groups filed a memo with the RCMP asking that Calgary-based Blackfire Exploration Ltd. and its Mexican subsidiary be investigated under the Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act.

This urgent action is being distributed by the Colombian Network Against Large-Scale Transnational Mining (Reclame Colombia), which brings together nearly fifty organizations in Colombia.

The letter below can also be signed on to at the RECLAME web site: http://www.reclamecolombia.org/

Doctor
Beatriz Elena Uribe Botero
Minister of Environment, Housing, and Territorial Development
Republic of Colombia

Honourable Doctor,

News release: For the last three days MiningWatch Canada’s Canada Program Coordinator Ramsey Hart has been participating in a delegation examining the uranium mining industry in Saskatchewan. The group of thirty made stops in Regina, Saskatoon, at the Rabbit Lake Mine and at a mill in northern Saskatchewan.

News release from Matawa First Nations: While regional municipalities from Thunder Bay to Sudbury compete for site selection for the smelter facility and construction route of a transportation corridor into our traditional territory, our First Nations who actually live in the Ring of Fire have not yet been invited to the table to even initiate discussions over community impacts.

Photo essay: Despite repeated recommendations from the international community during 2010 to suspend Goldcorp’s controversial Marlin mine in the northwestern highlands of Guatemala, the open-pit mine continues operating. Its presence in the indigenous municipalities of San Miguel Ixtahuacán and Sipacapa has led to allegations of serious human rights violations and social upheaval.