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Blue Gold: The Tsilhqot’in Fight for Teztan Biny
Blue Gold: The Tsilhqot’in Fight for Teztan Biny (Fish Lake) is a revealing look at the Tsilhqot’in peoples’ rejection of Taseko Mine’s plan to drain Teztan Biny (Fish Lake) and convert it into a mining waste dump site. Teztan Biny is one of 16 lakes in Canada that the Federal government marked for reclassification [...]
Goldcorp in Guatemala and the limits of the MDGs
“The Marlin mine has divided our town, harassed protesters, and made us afraid for the health of our families.” “Is this economic development? Could Goldcorp do this in Canada?” In this video, Aniseto López and Sister Maudilia López Cardona from the “Front in Defence of San Miguel Ixtahuacán” (FREDEMI) talk briefly about Goldcorp’s Marlin mine, its [...]
Guatemalan Mining Re-Sister Crisanta Perez arrested by police
Crisanta Perez, a Maya Mam villager from the community of Agel, in San Miguel Ixtahuacan, Guatemala, was arrested by police for an outstanding arrest warrant that was laid against her in 2008, reports the maritimes-guatemala Breaking the Silence Network (BTS). Crisanta had been in hiding for the past several months, due to several threats [...]
Burma: Gold mining leads the way to Irrawaddy destruction
Several large companies are working “day and night” to mine for gold in areas that will soon be flooded by the infamous Irrawaddy Myitsone dam project in Burma’s Kachin State. According to the Kachin News Group (KNG) there are seven companies working in the Irrawaddy “sacrifice zone”, an area the size of Singapore, including [...]
Indonesia: Halt Mining that Threatens Indigenous Peoples
The Manggarai, Leragere and Kedang Indigenous peoples are calling on the government of Indonesia to halt all mining in East Nusa Province and conduct a genuine consultation process with communities affected by any ongoing and proposed mining projects. One of these projects, a gold mine in Lembata, threatens to displace and severely undermine the livelihoods of [...]
Philippine community blocks entry of large mining firm
The community of Anislagan on the island of Mindanao has successfully blocked the Philex mining company from entering their lands. According to a press release from the Legal Rights and Natural Resources Center-Kasama sa Kalikasan (LRC-CdO), nearly the entire community gathered to greet Philex, the largest mining firm in the Philippines, with a makeshift checkpoint [...]
Pregnant Anti-Mining Activist Murdered in El Salvador
On December 26, Dora “Alicia” Sorto Recinos, an active opponent of Pacific Rim’s El Dorado gold mine in El Salvador, was shot and killed as she returned home from doing her laundry. Sorto Recinos was eight months pregnant and carrying her two-year old child at the time. The child was also shot, in the foot, [...]
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