This week marks one year since residents of the canton of Cuenca in southern Ecuador went to the polls to defend their water and highland páramo wetlands from metal mining.
Lake Babine Nation is celebrating the Province’s second rejection of the proposed Morrison Mine project, which follows Pacific Booker Minerals’ failure to develop the further information required under the Province’s 2015 Further Assessment Order.
Despite the province’s world-class claims, the safety of mine tailings storage is not up to international standards
Written by Judith Lavoie for the Narwhal
The Red Chris mine tailings pond in northwest B.C., in 2017. A new report is critical of the province's regulations around tailings storage, as well as a government audit that concluded those laws meet international safety standards.
Last week, the Panamanian Campesino (small farmers) Union (UCP) and the group “Panamá Vale Más Sin Minería” (“Panama is Worth More Without Mining”) both released public statements denouncing the government of Panama for renegotiating a contract with Vancouver-based First Quantum Minerals to operate its Cobre Panama open-pit copper mine.
Read the original statement in Spanish.
Contract between Minera Panama and the PRD-Molirena Government
Greed and the Mining Hub: The Pandemic that Threatens Our Territories and Natural Resources
Written by Joseph Winters at Grist
Advocates hope to enshrine the rights of nature and Indigenous protections into law.
(XʷMƏΘKʷƏY̓ƏM (MUSQUEAM), SḴWX̱WÚ7MESH (SQUAMISH) and SƏLILWƏTAɬ (TSLEIL-WAUTUTH)/VANCOUVER, B.C.) First Nations in British Columbia are proactively working towards re-establishing sovereignty over their territories by introducing and exercising their own law-making authority to regulate and monitor mining on their own lands.
The following is the translated joint statement issued by the Union of Community Assemblies of Chubut, Argentina (UACCh), launching their third popular initiative "Chubut Sin Megaminería" ("No Megamining in Chubut"). The Assemblies are collecting signatures from residents in the province in an effort to present a bill which, if turned into law, could strengthen protections for water and the environment from the devastating impacts of industrial mining.
On January 21, 2022, the Union of Community Assemblies of Chubut, Argentina (UACCh) launched its third popular initiative, "Chubut Sin Megaminería" ("No Megamining in Chubut"). The Assemblies are collecting signatures from residents in the province in an effort to present a bill which, if turned into law, could strengthen protections for water and the environment from the devastating impacts of industrial mining.