Mining Watch Canada is among 13 Canadian organizations which signed a statement in solidarity with the popular assemblies of Chubut, Argentina as well as the Indigenous communities and organizations who have been peacefully resisting the imposition of industrial mining in their territory. The groups also “repudiate any pressure being exerted by multinational mining companies to influence the legislators’ … Read more
Several socio-environmental assemblies in the Patagonia region launched the “#WeAreWatchingYou” (#LosEstamosObservando) digital campaign in response to the constant lobbying efforts by Canadian company Pan American Silver. PAS’s plans to develop an open pit silver-lead mine in Chubut, Argentina, have been stymied for years due to a legislative ban on mining in the province. Communities around the Navidad project are worried … Read more
Mining Watch Canada says the Canadian government appears to be caving to corporate pressure, covering up facts and threatening civil society to protect Ottawa-based Sakto Corporation. Canada’s Department of Justice has sent cease and desist letters to international non-profit civil society organizations requiring them to remove a document from their websites. The document relates to a complaint brought to Canada’s National … Read more
Two women who have suffered sexual violence at the hands of mine security at Barrick’s massive Porgera Joint Venture mine in Papua New Guinea have appealed directly to the Government of Canada for help in accessing equitable remedy for the mining-related harm they and other villagers are suffering. “This case highlights a pervasive problem faced by … Read more
In an open letter to the United Nations, 119 indigenous women who were sexually assaulted by security guards at Barrick Gold’s mine in Porgera, Papua New Guinea appealed for UN intervention in their fight to obtain fair remedies from the company. “For the women, this is another step in what has been a long process over … Read more
MiningWatch Canada has published a new analysis showing that British Columbia (BC) has the largest unsecured environmental liability for mine site clean-up costs when compared to the two other main mining jurisdictions in Canada: Ontario and Quebec. More information is available online.
Villagers living around Barrick Gold’s Porgera mine in Papua New Guinea and North Mara mine in Tanzania are suffering from violence at the hands of mine security and police guarding the mines. Women have been beaten and raped and men have been maimed and killed by mine security at both mines. “At the Porgera mine, … Read more
A second human rights field assessment at Barrick Gold’s Tanzania subsidiary, Acacia Mining (formerly African Barrick Gold), calls into question commitments made by the company to stop excessive use of force by mine security and police guarding the mine. Interviews conducted by MiningWatch Canada and the British NGO, Rights and Accountability in Development (RAID), also confirmed … Read more
World’s first deep sea mining proposal ignores consequences of its impacts on oceans: As the deep sea mining industry chases investors at the Asia Pacific Deep Sea Mining Summit, a new critique by the Deep Sea Mining Campaign reveals indefensible omissions in the Environmental and Social Benchmarking Analysis of the Solwara 1 project commissioned by Nautilus … Read more
The International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group (ICLMG) and MiningWatch Canada released a report that squarely links Canadian mining interests throughout the Americas with intensifying repression and violence against mining-affected communities. ‘In the National Interest? Criminalization of Land and Environment Defenders in the Americas’ provides evidence from five countries that illustrates how the Canadian government and … Read more
