The province billed its Public Interest Bonding Strategy as a key step to protect the public from massive cleanup bills. Now it’s on hold.
by Zoë Yunker
B.C. has halted work on a strategy aimed at ensuring taxpayers don’t bear the massive cleanup costs arising from abandoned industrial sites and disasters like the Mount Polley mine breach.
Ford’s ministers call minerals ‘the most ethical on Earth,’ while passing legislation that suspends treaty rights, species protections, and human rights to benefit extractive industries
(Toronto, Ontario) Osgoode Hall Law School’s Environmental Justice and Sustainability Clinic (EJSC) has made a submission to the United Nations Human Rights Committee (HRC), cautioning that recent federal and Ontario legislation designed to “fast-track” energy and infrastructure development projects violates international human rights law.
Katie Surma, Inside Climate News
As Mark Carney urges value-based leadership, critics point to trade rules championed by Canada that undermine those ideals.
Lindsay Kelly, Northern Ontario Business
Speakers share global perspectives on Indigenous rights in the mining industry.
Too many of the people in Treaty 9 territory are living without basic necessities like potable water, proper health care, or even a comfortable place to live.
Above Ground and MiningWatch Canada co-organized an event series unpacking various issues surrounding so-called “critical minerals”. The growing global focus on prioritizing the exploration and extraction of minerals deemed of critical importance to economic security, defence and an energy transition comes with many questions about human rights – including Indigenous rights and labour rights –, environmental justice, and corporate accountability.
