Alistair Steele, CBC News
The head of a Montreal-based mineral exploration company is reassuring hundreds of residents of Gatineau, Que., that it has no immediate plans to mine for phosphate, a vital and increasingly sought-after component of electric car batteries, in the ground beneath their homes.
Environmental groups call on the BC government to deliver on its long-delayed promise to establish a public participation funding program for environmental assessments
xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) & səl̓ilwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Territories/VANCOUVER – Today, a coalition of BC environmental groups is urging the BC government to follow through on a key commitment that would better enable members of the public to participate in environmental decisions.
The Shuar Arutam People ratify its opposition to the Warintza mining project in response to a public announcement about advanced exploration and attempts to seek additional investments to expand a project that has not undergone a consultation process
(Quebec City) Today, Eau Secours, the Coalition Québec meilleure mine (QMM), and MiningWatch Canada released a first-of-its-kind guide addressing the impacts of mining activities on water, designed specifically to support collective action.
In Quebec, the media often singles out the mining industry for being a repeat offender. This reputation stems from the bad practices of certain mine developers who have abandoned contaminated mine sites and left Quebec residents on the hook for billions of dollars for restoration, turned rivers red for dozens of kilometres, or have used lakes as dumping grounds for the tailings from iron ore processing plants.
The Metals Company (TMC) continue to peddle their own version of reality, as they and their sponsoring state Nauru hold a gun to the head of governments at the International Seabed Authority (ISA), by threatening to submit their application to mine next year.
Mine waste safety expert Dr. Steven Emerman released findings of his independent review of Barrick Gold’s Environmental and Social Impact Assessment for the Naranjo Tailings Storage Facility (TSF), warning that the Canadian mining giant is failing to adequately disclose the environmental and social risks posed by its planned expansion at the Pueblo Viejo mine in the Dominican Republic.
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Activists and community members demonstrate outside the Dominican Republic’s Presidential Palace
(SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic) Today, over a hundred protesters gathered in front of the Presidential Palace in the Dominican Republic to demand justice for the 450 families living downstream of the Pueblo Viejo mine. They are asking the government to halt a planned expansion of the open-pit gold mine and meet demands to relocate affected families to a healthy environment where they can live free from the daily impacts of mining operations.
Following the murder of Xinka human and environmental rights defender, Noé Gómez Barrera, more than a hundred organizations - including MiningWatch Canada - issued the following letter:
