Tag: Mining
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Ecuador is Not For Sale
A coalition of eco-activist, civil society, and indigenous groups are facing increased repression and violence in the struggle to halt extractivism and to hold the Noboa administration accountable to Ecuador’s laws enshrining the rights of nature. Keep reading »
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What Do Mine Tailings Dam Disasters Teach Us?
Brazilian mining activists invited Judith Marshall to participate in their November 5th commemorations of the anniversary of the tailings dam collapse at the Vale/BHP iron mine in Mariana, Brazil. Marshall … Keep reading »
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Attawapiskat First Nation versus De Beers Diamond Mine
Massive Garbage Dump in Fragile Wetlands Habitat? In May 2019, production at De Beer’s Victor diamond mine on the traditional territories of Attawapiskat First Nation came to an end. In all, … Keep reading »
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Limits of Ontario’s Mineral Strategy: The Magino Mine Approval
On June 11, 2020, 21 lakes, streams and wetlands in northern Ontario were re-characterized as a mine tailings impoundment for the proposed Magino gold mine. This magical transformation took place … Keep reading »
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Extractivism and Exploitation in Peru
Martin Vizcarra, Peru’s president, has announced that “[t]his government has taken up the challenge and has been working on the approval of a new regulation for mining procedures in order … Keep reading »
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Wall Street Can’t Fix the Environment – and Neither Can Bay Street
On December 16, 2019, a few dozen members of Canada’s business, academic and government elite met in Toronto at the invitation of the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC). They were … Keep reading »
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The Mining Industry and Ecological Transformation
“The mining industry continues to be at the forefront of colonial dispossession around the world. It controls information about its intrinsic costs and benefits, propagates myths about its contribution to … Keep reading »
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Ontario’s Resource Revenue Sharing Agreements
A Step Toward Reconciliation? Announced last spring, Ontario’s new resource revenue sharing (RRS) agreements with three northern First Nations councils are set to come into effect this fall. The agreements were … Keep reading »
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The State of Mining Today
Presentations by Judith Marshall, Matthew Corbeil and Joan Kuyek about the mining disasters at Mt. Polley, Canada and at Mariana, Brazil. Watch video »
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Mining Conflicts Multiply: Extractivism Critics Gather in Johannesburg
The World Social Forum’s “Thematic Forum on Mining and Extractivism” convened from November 12-15 here in Johannesburg, on the heels of the Southern Africa People’s Tribunal on Transnational Corporations. Hundreds … Keep reading »
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Tailings Dam Spills at Mount Polley and Mariana
On August 4, 2014, the dam holding toxic waste from the Mount Polley copper and gold mine in British Columbia collapsed, creating the largest environmental disaster in Canada’s mining history. Keep reading »
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Chevron, Corporations and the Law Versus Life and Lives
The decision in Yaiguaje v. Chevron Corporation by the Ontario Court of Appeal denied justice owed to some 30,000 Ecuadorian people grievously harmed by profiteering oil companies. The story is … Keep reading »