Canadian mining companies

Report Back: Mining Injustice Conference 2012, Day 1
This is the first of a two-part feature examining the fourth annual Mining Injustice Conference, which ran from May 5-6, 2012 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Canada loves to follow...

Hold Sherritt Accountable For Human And Environmental Impacts in Madagascar!
The Paris-based Collective for the Defence of Malagasy Lands ("Collectif pour la défense des terres malgaches" or TANY) is asking the international community to send an urgent message to...

Algonquin First Nations Have Serious Concerns About Proposed Rare Earth Mine on Traditional Lands
Two Algonquin First Nations in western Quebec are raising concerns about a proposed rare earth open pit mine on their traditional lands. In a joint press statement, Wolf Lake...

Proposed mining project threatens O’odham water, sacred sites in Arizona
Two Canadian mining companies are trying to obtain permits for two unrelated mining projects that threaten O'odham water resources and sacred sites in southern Arizona. Lori Riddle, Akimel O'odham...

Troubled Waters: How mine waste is poisoning our oceans, rivers and lakes
An investigative report from Earthworks and MiningWatch Canada exposes how mining companies around the world use rivers, oceans, and lakes as private dumping grounds for toxic mine waste. The...

Ontario unilaterally declares KI lands off limits to mining companies; KI leaders respond
In a surprise move this week, the province of Ontario declared that 23,000 square kilometres of traditional Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (KI) land is now off limits to mining companies. It's...

Long live Wirikuta! Mexico judiciary suspends mining concessions on Wixarika lands
The Wixarika people, after campaigning for seventeen straight months to protect their sacred territory, have been granted a major reprieve by the federal courts in Mexico. As of this...

Environmental Injustice & Resistance: Why we need to support KI
In 2008, Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (KI) Chief Donny Morris, along with five other community members, were criminalized and jailed for saying “No” to mining exploration on their land. Although the...

Wixarika Statement to Mexican Government and all of Humanity 
Wirikuta is a desert valley in the North of Mexico, in San Luis Potosi. It not only has been recognized by UNESCO as a natural and sacred area, Wirikuta...

Canada’s Rush For Gold 
Canada may be one of the world's largest gold mining nations, but both its overseas and domestic mining activities are controversial. In this Earth Focus report: 1) Human Rights...

Canada: CIDA teams up with NGOs to do make mining companies look good
In the following article, Gwendolyn Schulman and Roberto Nieto take a look at the Canadian government's latest PR scheme: a publicly-funded partnership between three of Canada's mining giants and...

Face to Face with Graham Russell: Are Canadian mining companies getting away with murder? 
In this 30-minute interview, Grahame Russell of Rights Action discusses the health, environmental and other heinous human rights violations caused by Canadian mining companies in Guatemala, Honduras and El...













