Today, 157 scientists, community groups, Indigenous peoples, and civil society groups endorsed an updated set of guidelines for improving the management of mine waste disposal facilities, also known as tailings dams. Based on consultation with over 200 stakeholders and experts across five continents, Safety First: Guidelines for Responsible Mine Tailing Management shows that an industry-led tailings standard is failing to keep communities and ecosystems safe.

Canada Program Co-Lead Jamie Kneen presents on "Resistance to mining extractivism in Latin America and Canada" on May 30, 2022 as part of the 2022 World Social Forum. An important primer on the Canadian mining industry, this piece details the role of junior companies in exploration and speculation, describes Canada's unbridled support for mining companies, and points to the ways mining companies are using the climate crisis to promote 'green growth' to significantly expand resource extraction. 

By Elizabeth McSheffrey, Global News

The bodies of another two missing workers were found at a British Columbia mining company’s zinc mine in Burkina Faso on Saturday.

Trevali Mining Corp., based in Vancouver, has now reported six of eight miners who disappeared after a catastrophic flood at its Perkoa Mine in April have been found dead.

This morning, the prosecutor Martín Camps took the statements of six people and decided to detain two comrades from the El Algarrobo Assembly for judicial disobedience and alleged threats, in the face of FALSE accusations from people related to the mining company.

Over a century since their introduction, cars dominate the streets of cities and towns across Canada to such a degree that many people feel there is no real alternative. In January 2022, Turo Canada in partnership with Léger found that 83 percent of Canadians have their own or lease a vehicle and 81 percent of vehicle owners feel it would be impossible not to. There’s a reason for that: car-dependent communities are the product of decades of collaboration between industry and government.

“There is a real problem with lack of accountability and effective impunity when our Canadian companies operate overseas”

By Owen Schalk, Canadian Dimension 

Advocate says tighter rules needed for companies operating overseas, as 4 others remain missing at Perkoa Mine. CBC News interviews Jamie Kneen, MiningWatch Canada.

The COVID-19 pandemic has been a particularly difficult time for the Shuar Arutam People (PSHA) of the Ecuadorian Amazon in the defense of their territory and their ongoing resistance against large-scale mining. The government and mining companies took advantage of the pandemic to intensify the invasion by extractive industries on multiple fronts. This case study was written by the Shuar Arutam People (PSHA) in collaboration wth Amazon Watch, ICCA Consortium, Fundación Tiam, LluviaComunicación, MiningWatch Canada and Witness (based on personal interviews with Josefina Tunki, president of the PSHA). 

(Val-d'Or, Quebec) Five regional and national organizations are joining forces to ask the Minister of Energy and Natural Resources to withdraw all 5161 mining claims covering all or part of the eskers in the Abitibi-Témiscamingue region and to immediately withdraw mining activities on eskers that are not currently claimed.

A new report developed by the Coalition against the Mining Pandemic - Latin America unmasks the unbridled advance of mining during the pandemic, for which reason communities and peoples in Latin America could not let their guard down even while taking measures to protect themselves from COVID-19.