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Mining's Toxic Orphans: A Plan for Action on Federal Contaminated and Unsafe Mine Sites

The “toxic orphans” of the mining industry have indeed come of age. They are a serious and immediate danger to human health and the environment. They are already costing taxpayers millions of dollars in clean-up, cancers, lost fishery, forestry and farm income, and they stand to cost billions more. They are a public relations nightmare for the mining industry. In 1995, the Auditor-General made it clear that the enormous liability they –and other contaminated sites– represent should be shown on the public accounts.

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Review of the Export Development Act - Presentation to the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade

This presentation outlines a number of examples that demonstrate a number of problems with Export Development Canada's involvement with the mining sector, expecially in light of ​the growth and influence of the Canadian mining industry:

  • the need for accountability and transparency;
  • the need for environmental assessment of projects;
  • the need for social and cultural assessment of projects;
  • the need for human rights assessment of projects; and
  • the need to evaluate and monitor performance.
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Newsletters

MiningWatch produces a more-or-less quarterly newsletter; current and past issues are available here in PDF, or you can sign up to receive it in paper or electronic format.

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Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Aboriginal Communities and Mining

The Innu Nation and MiningWatch Canada convened a workshop in Ottawa, Ontario on September 10-12, 1999 entitled "Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Aboriginal Communities and Mining". We present here the workshop summary and documentation, including the case studies that were prepared for it.

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Guest Publication

Lasting Benefits from Beneath the Earth: Mining Nickel from Voisey's Bay in a Manner Compatible with the Requirements of Sustainable Development

This report by ecological economist Tom Green for the Innu Nation was submitted to the Voisey's Bay Nickel Mine environmental assessment review in 1998. It is a thoughtful consideration of the limitations of mining projects' potential contributions to sustainable development and continues to be highly relevant.

Executive Summary

This report was prepared at the request of Innu Nation to examine the economic implications of the proposed Voisey’s Bay Mine and Mill in preparation for the environmental assessment hearings into the undertaking.

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