(Toronto/Quito) While shareholders gather in Vancouver, Canada, for Silvercorp Metals Inc.’s Annual General Meeting (AGM), Ecuador is experiencing widespread unrest. Tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets and blocked highways in a nationwide strike led by the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE) and other allied civil society groups.

San Salvador – On September 24, the presiding tribunal in San Vicente, El Salvador found five prominent water defenders from Santa Marta, Miguel Ángel Gámez, Alejandro Laínez García, Pedro Antonio Rivas Laínez, Antonio Pacheco, and Saúl Agustín Rivas Ortega, innocent of charges of murder, kidnapping, and illicit association. 

ROSSLAND, B.C. — The Save Record Ridge Action Committee (SRRAC) has filed a petition for judicial review in B.C. Supreme Court, challenging an Environmental Assessment Office (EAO) decision not to require an environmental assessment (EA) for the proposed Record Ridge magnesium mine.

(Ottawa) Today, two delegates from the Xinka Parliament of Guatemala held a press conference on Parliament Hill calling on the Canadian government and Vancouver-based mining company Pan American Silver to respect the Xinka People’s decision to seek the permanent closure of the Escobal mine in accord with their rights to self-determination under the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigen

Neskantaga First Nation is rejecting the coordinated announcements made this week by Ontario and Canada to fast-track Ring of Fire mining development and road building. The provincial and federal governments are both working to advance these destructive projects while ignoring the devastating social and health crises facing First Nations communities, including Neskantaga.

The BCSC decision upholds authorizations by the B.C. Government to allow Mount Polley to raise its tailings storage facility dam without an environmental assessment

The Regroupement de protection des Lacs de la Petite-Nation (RPLPN) announces that the results of the consultative referendum on the La Loutre mining project confirm the population's strong opposition to this open-pit mining project in the Outaouais region. The referendum, held in accordance with Élections Québec rules in the municipalities of Duhamel, Lac des Plages, Lac-Simon, Chénéville, and Saint-Émile-de-Suffolk, saw 95% of citizens answer NO to the question of whether or not to implement the La Loutre mining project.

Jagersfontein Lerumo Justice Forum and CSOs Tailings Working Group Joint Statement