Webinar - Communities First: The Future of Mining Justice

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This webinar took place on Zoom with simultaneous French-English-Spanish interpretation. 

To celebrate the end of our 25th anniversary fundraising campaign and launch our new legacy giving program, MiningWatch will be hosting a roundtable webinar bringing together frontline partners from Canada and around the world to discuss current issues in their struggles for mining justice,  share visions for the future, and learn how your support can make a lasting difference.

QMM Conference 2025 | Program

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The Québec meilleure mine coalition is pleased to present the program for its second conference, with the theme "Critical and Strategic Minerals Policy: What Voices/Pathways for the Environment and Communities." Workshops and panels will be on the agenda to sharpen our knowledge and discuss the latest mining issues in Quebec.

Xinka say ‘no’ to Pan American’s Escobal

by Henry Lazenby, The Northern Miner.

A Vancouver group on Thursday delivered a petition with more than 6,000 signatures urging Pan American Silver (NYSE, TSX: PAAS) to respect the Xinka Indigenous people’s decision against restarting the Escobal silver mine in Guatemala. 

Read the full article here. 

 
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The Northern Miner

The Ecuador-Canada Free Trade Agreement and the Referendum in Ecuador: An Attack on Constitutional Protections

This paper by the Transnational Institute examines how and why Investor State Dispute Mechanisms (ISDS) were included in the new Ecuador Canada free trade agreement (FTA) despite being prohibited by the Ecuadorian constitution, and makes connections between the FTA and the upcoming referendum in Ecuador.

Liberal Budget Leaves Corporate Watchdog in Limbo, Abandons Communities Abroad

Ottawa - The new Liberal Government’s first budget makes no mention of funding for the Canadian Ombudsperson for Responsible Enterprise (CORE) – an office that has been without an Ombudsperson since May, when it also stopped processing a backlog of human rights cases.

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MiningWatch Canada

Canada’s National Contact Point for the OECD Guidelines: An Ineffective Human Rights Mechanism

This brief provides an overview of Canada's National Contact Point for Responsible Business Conduct (NCP), compares it to the NCPs of other countries to demonstrate why the Canadian NCP is not an effective human rights mechanism, and examines how years of lack of reform have led to a loss of trust in the NCP in Canada.

Neskantaga Calls Out Ford’s Push to Kill Federal Oversight on Ring of Fire

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Premier’s attack on the federal impact assessment comes just hours after Neskantaga formally requested review of the Eagle’s Nest mine.

(Toronto, Ontario) — Just one hour after Neskantaga First Nation filed a formal request for the Eagle’s Nest mine to be designated for a federal impact assessment, Premier Doug Ford called for that same process to be terminated altogether.

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Neskantaga First Nation

A Review of Key Environmental Considerations Related to Denison Mines’ Wheeler River Uranium Project

Denison Mines’ Wheeler River Project would constitute the first-ever use in Canada of in situ leaching (ISL), to extract uranium from an ore body, and the first attempt anywhere to use “freeze wall” technology to limit contaminant spread from an ISL mine. Our review has identified important gaps and shortcomings in the Environmental Impact Statement and the CNSC Staff Submission recommending licencing of the project related to the proposed ISL/freeze wall process and related issues.

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