Mining Watch Canada issued a statement concerning the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act. Mining Watch Canada said that the government wants to gut the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act. The group is urging Canadian to tell Prime Minister Stephen Harper (Calgary Southwest, AB), Environment Minister Peter Kent (Thornhill, ON) and Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver (Eglington-Lawrence, ON) … Read more
Mining Watch Canada and other environmental groups are expressing shock over the abrupt termination of the Parliamentary review of the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act. The groups said committee hearings were cancelled late last week without warning, and written submissions are no longer being accepted. Mining Watch Canada's Jamie Kneen said it seems the government has … Read more
Mining Watch Canada announced that for the fourth year in a row Indigenous Ipili leaders from Porgera in Papua, New Guinea, are in Canada to protest the ongoing severe environmental impacts and human rights abuses associated with Barrick Gold's Porgera mine. Chairman of the traditional landowners living in the Special Lease area of the mine … Read more
