Teck Resources’ Carmen de Andacollo mine in northern Chile has come under scrutiny for the way it is reacting to the COVID-19 crisis as the number of cases in that country continues to rise.
The peaceful resistance of Santa Rosa, Jalapa, and Jutiapa in southeastern Guatemala has struggled since 2010 to defend the health of their communities from the Escobal mine. Since June 2017, they have maintained a 24-hour roadside encampment to prevent traffic from reaching the mine site, which halted operations shortly before Guatemalan courts ordered the mine suspended.
The Xinka People of Guatemala Inform the Public That:
Twenty-four years after a catastrophic mine waste disaster on the small Philippine island of Marinduque filled a 26-kilometre river with mine tailings from the mountainous mine site to the sea, Marinduqueños still seek compensation for this disaster from Canadian mining giant Barrick Gold.
The 55,000 residents of the town of Boac, many of whom lost homes, rice fields, animals, and the use of the Boac River for food security and their livelihoods, continue to suffer from acidification and high metal levels in the river that has yet to be remediated.
Seventeen years after the Esquel referendum (March 23, 2003), funding dirty metal extraction projects seems further away than ever.
Author: Luis Manuel Claps
“The hygiene here in the camp is intolerable – we don’t have toilet paper, we don’t have hand sanitizer, we don’t even have soap to wash our hands; we are terrified of catching it [coronavirus].”
(Ottawa, Quito) Last Friday, the Indigenous Pueblo Shuar Arutam government (PSHA) released a public statement condemning a Canadian company Solaris Resources, owner of the Warintza copper-molybdenum project, and the Ecuadorian government for using unelected representatives of the Shuar peoples in Canada to misrepresent the project as enjoying the support of the Shuar.
More than 100 indigenous women and women's rights advocates in Brgy. Didipio in Kasibu town dance the Tayaw to protest the mining operations of OceanaGold Philippines
Published 2:00 PM, March 07, 2020
Updated 2:02 PM, March 07, 2020
ALBAY, Philippines – "Tayaw," a traditional dance of the Tuwali tribe in Nueva Vizcaya, is about unity and the power to face threats against a community.
(Toronto) A noisy crowd came together today at the most important event of the mining sector, the Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada (PDAC). The rally called out the Chilean government’s participation in the event – seeking to further increase mining investment despite the devastating waves of protest and violent repression that have rocked the country for months, and a deepening ecological crisis in the country, in which the mining industry plays an important role.
[Guest blog by the Armenian Environmental Front] On February 28, members of the Armenian Environmental Front addressed a letter to Honorable Geoffrey B. Morawetz, Chief Justice of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, Commercial List, specialized in insolvency cases, who presides over Lydian Group’s insolvency protection court proceedings. The letter was copied to Alvarez & Marsal, Inc. the appointed “monitor” under the “Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act”.
