The Metals Company's Own Analysis Shows Project “Cannot Be Profitable”

A new independent analysis of the pre-feasibility study (PFS) produced by The Metals Company (TMC) has found that on its own numbers, this project makes zero profit then collapses, raising serious questions about the project’s financial and technical credibility.

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Deep Sea Mining Campaign – Greenpeace International – MiningWatch Canada

Wildsight requests independent review of Fording River mine expansion impacts

 
Wildsight asked Canada this week to appoint an independent panel of experts to review the environmental impacts of a proposed mine expansion in British Columbia’s Elk Valley.
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Wildsight

Marinduqueños Commemorate Mining Disasters - Celebrate $100 Million Legal Victory over Canadian Mining Company

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Yesterday, people from the small Philippine Island of Marinduque came together to commemorate the mining disaster of March 24, 1996, that filled their Boac River with mine waste from the mountains, where the Marcopper Mine was located, to the sea. The mine was closed after the disaster and remains so.

Take Action: Tell the Government of Canada to respect the Xinka people’s right to self-determination

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Take action and sign the new parliamentary e-petition calling on the Government of Canada to respect the Xinka people’s right to self-determination in relation to the Canadian-owned Escobal mine in Guatemala.

Thirty Years of Struggle for Justice: A Small Philippine Island Marks Anniversary of Mining Disaster Caused by Canadian Company

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Thirty years ago today, on the Philippine Island of Marinduque, people woke up to the largest mining disaster in Philippine history unfolding outside their homes. A major river on the island was filling up with mine waste from the mountains to the sea after a mine waste containment structure at the Marcopper Mine failed. 

MiningWatch's Rodrigue Turgeon Testifies Before the Standing Committee on National Defence as Part of its Study on the Nexus between National Security, National Defence, and Critical Minerals

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On Monday, March 13, Rodrigue Turgeon, MiningWatch Canada's National Program Co-Lead, presented a brief to the House of Commons Standing Committee on National Defence as part of its study on the links between national defence, national security, and critical minerals.

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Canada’s weakness lies beyond the mine gate, MPs hear

Henry Lazenby, the Northern Miner

Canada’s critical-minerals fragility lies more with what happens after ore leaves the ground than the ore in the ground, witnesses told a parliamentary panel this week.

In the House defence committee on Monday, MPs discussed how mining relates to refining and control of the value chain and how that matters for Canadian sovereignty.

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The Northern Miner

77 Civil Society Organizations Call on the Canadian Embassy in Ecuador to Speak Out on the Criminalization of Environmental Defenders by DPM Metals Inc.

Seventy-seven Ecuadorian, Canadian, and international civil society organizations and coalitions have sent a formal letter to the Canadian Ambassador to Ecuador, Craig Kowalik, urging the Canadian Embassy to implement Canada’s Voices at Risk: Canada’s Guidelines on Supporting Human Rights Defenders in response to the criminalization of Indigenous and environmental defenders from the Federation of Indigenous and Campesino Organizations of Azuay (F

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MiningWatch Canada and Federation of Indigenous and Campesino Organizations of Azuay (FOA, Federación de Organizaciones lndígenas y Campesinas del Azuay)

MiningWatch Canada Brief: Study on the Nexus Between National Defence, National Security and Canada’s Critical Minerals Sector

This brief was submitted by MiningWatch Canada to the House of Commons Standing Committee on National Defence for its study on the nexus between national defence, national security, and Canada’s "critical minerals" sector.
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