While Energy & Mines Ministers from across Canada are meeting in Halifax for their annual conference, a coalition of more than 50 environmental, First Nations, and community organizations sent a letter to all Canadian Mines Ministers urging them to take immediate action to assess and prevent the threat posed by hundreds of mine waste dams … Read more
Oxford (UK) and Ottawa (Canada) – Rights and Accountability in Development (RAID) and MiningWatch Canada (MiningWatch) recognise the significance of the settlement, announced on Friday, Feb. 6, 2015, of claims brought by Tanzanian villagers alleging that African Barrick Gold (now Acacia Mining) and its subsidiary were liable, through complicity, for killing and injuring of locals at the … Read more
MiningWatch Canada said that new evidence is emerging that Barrick Gold’s dealings with victims of violence by mine security and police at mine sites in Papua New Guinea and in Tanzania is primarily designed to protect the company from legal action, rather than to provide fair remedy for women who have been raped and men … Read more
MiningWatch Canada issued a release regarding increased violence at Barrick’s Porgera Mine. The release is available online.
A human rights assessment conducted between late June and mid-July 2014 at UK-listed African Barrick Gold’s North Mara Gold Mine Ltd. in Tanzania by MiningWatch Canada and the British NGO, Rights and Accountability in Development (RAID), confirms reports of ongoing excessive use of force by police guarding the mine, resulting in deaths and serious injuries … Read more
A sixteen year old Guatemalan girl, Topacio Reynoso, was murdered on April 13, 2014 near her home town of Mataquescuintla, Guatemala where she was head of a youth movement against mining. Her father, a leader in organizing a municipal vote on the mine, was shot in the same incident and is in hospital in critical … Read more
The situation around Eldorado Gold Corporation’s mining projects in northern Greece is extremely tense. In the face of negative official response to social and environmental concerns from the company, Greek authorities, and even the Canadian ambassador – a delegation of Greeks from the affected area have come to ask Canadians for help. The Canadian government … Read more
The Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala (NISGUA) and MiningWatch Canada warned Tahoe Resources investors against further investment in the Escobal silver project, given lack of community support and increasing violence and repression in the area. The project is located in the municipality of San Rafael Las Flores in the department of Santa … Read more
Mining Watch Canada issued a statement regarding the Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development's review of the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act. The group said that Conservative MPs on the committee reviewing the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act have set out recommendations that follow the party line to further gut the federal environmental assessment process, while … Read more
Mining Watch Canada, West Coast Environmental Law, Ecovision Law and the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment issued a joint statement concerning the federal government's Environmental Assessment Agenda. To evaluate any federal plan to alter environmental reviews, the groups have published a checklist of ten foundational elements that any strong environmental assessment law needs … Read more
