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Ontario First Nation prepared to block highway to stop mining near drinking water source: ricochet.media/indigenous/o...
Ontario First Nation prepared to block highway to stop mining near drinking water source
In a community grieving five recent deaths after a decade of government inaction, elders signal they’re done being ignored as development plans advance without consent
ricochet.media
November 28, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Ontario First Nation prepared to block highway to stop mining near drinking water source: ricochet.media/indigenous/o...
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LMN and @actsa-uk.bsky.social stand in solidarity with MACUA & partners in their demands for corporate accountability as Anglo American exits South Africa.
Watch the press conference: www.youtube.com/live/VMnTBAg...
Read our statement: londonminingnetwork.org/2025/11/macu...
#NoExitWithoutJustice
Watch the press conference: www.youtube.com/live/VMnTBAg...
Read our statement: londonminingnetwork.org/2025/11/macu...
#NoExitWithoutJustice
MACUA submit parliamentary petition calling for corporate accountability as Anglo American exits South Africa - London Mining Network
MACUA petition calls for reparations, binding obligations to Free Prior and Informed Consent, mine closure and rehabilitation.
londonminingnetwork.org
November 28, 2025 at 1:13 PM
LMN and @actsa-uk.bsky.social stand in solidarity with MACUA & partners in their demands for corporate accountability as Anglo American exits South Africa.
Watch the press conference: www.youtube.com/live/VMnTBAg...
Read our statement: londonminingnetwork.org/2025/11/macu...
#NoExitWithoutJustice
Watch the press conference: www.youtube.com/live/VMnTBAg...
Read our statement: londonminingnetwork.org/2025/11/macu...
#NoExitWithoutJustice
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The mineral-intensive energy transition in Latin America is advancing in ways that undermine human rights and nature, pushing into fragile ecosystems, overriding community consent, and placing environmental defenders at growing risk.
NEW from Viviana Herrera of @miningwatch.bsky.social:
NEW from Viviana Herrera of @miningwatch.bsky.social:
Corporate pressure mounts on Chileans opposing Canadian copper mine
A Canadian mining company is escalating legal pressure against Chileans fighting to protect a fragile Andean ecosystem. As Vancouver-based Los Andes Copper pushes its Vizcachitas project, local offici...
canadiandimension.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:10 PM
The mineral-intensive energy transition in Latin America is advancing in ways that undermine human rights and nature, pushing into fragile ecosystems, overriding community consent, and placing environmental defenders at growing risk.
NEW from Viviana Herrera of @miningwatch.bsky.social:
NEW from Viviana Herrera of @miningwatch.bsky.social:
🇨🇦Los Andes Copper has launched an aggressive campaign targeting the municipality of Putaendo 🇨🇱 & a local biologist for leading scientific efforts to protect the area from its Vizcachitas copper project
✍️ @vivianaherrerav.bsky.social
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November 27, 2025 at 2:19 PM
🇨🇦Los Andes Copper has launched an aggressive campaign targeting the municipality of Putaendo 🇨🇱 & a local biologist for leading scientific efforts to protect the area from its Vizcachitas copper project
✍️ @vivianaherrerav.bsky.social
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MiningWatch Canada expresses our support for Mining Affected Communities United in Action (MACUA)'s petition demanding accountability from Anglo American - they are abandoning their obligations to repair harm to South Africans in their merger with Teck Resources.
November 26, 2025 at 5:24 PM
MiningWatch Canada expresses our support for Mining Affected Communities United in Action (MACUA)'s petition demanding accountability from Anglo American - they are abandoning their obligations to repair harm to South Africans in their merger with Teck Resources.
Ce soir! Ne manquez pas notre wébinaire!
Webinaire à venir !
On organise une table ronde virtuelle qui réunira des partenaires de première ligne du Canada, et autour du monde pour parler des luttes actuelles pour la justice minière et partager nos visions pour l'avenir.
Inscrivez-vous dès maintenant : miningwatch.ca/fr/blog/2025...
On organise une table ronde virtuelle qui réunira des partenaires de première ligne du Canada, et autour du monde pour parler des luttes actuelles pour la justice minière et partager nos visions pour l'avenir.
Inscrivez-vous dès maintenant : miningwatch.ca/fr/blog/2025...
November 25, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Ce soir! Ne manquez pas notre wébinaire!
Tonight! Don't miss our webinar - there's still time to register!
Upcoming Webinar!
We're hosting a virtual roundtable webinar bringing together frontline partners from Canada and around the world to discuss current struggles for mining justice, and share visions for the future.
Register now: miningwatch.ca/blog/2025/11...
We're hosting a virtual roundtable webinar bringing together frontline partners from Canada and around the world to discuss current struggles for mining justice, and share visions for the future.
Register now: miningwatch.ca/blog/2025/11...
November 25, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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“All eyes are on the Loma Larga project. DPM can’t continue hiding the fact that it does not have and will never have a social licence for this project.” MiningWatch Latin America program coordinator Viviana Herrera said in a release tied to the open letter.
www.northernminer.com/news/ngos-ur...
www.northernminer.com/news/ngos-ur...
NGOs urge DPM Metals to exit Loma Larga in Ecuador - The Northern Miner
Toronto-based DPM Metals (TSX, ASX: DPM) faces renewed pressure to abandon its stalled $600-million (C$845-million) Loma Larga gold-copper project in NGOs urge DPM Metals to exit Loma Larga in Ecuador
www.northernminer.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:53 PM
“All eyes are on the Loma Larga project. DPM can’t continue hiding the fact that it does not have and will never have a social licence for this project.” MiningWatch Latin America program coordinator Viviana Herrera said in a release tied to the open letter.
www.northernminer.com/news/ngos-ur...
www.northernminer.com/news/ngos-ur...
Is this what Mark Carney and Evan Solomon are trying to bring to Canada? Built and powered with production from all these “fast tracked” mining projects?
'For these all-too concrete, all-too corporate places are hungry for power, thirsty for water, and set to dominate global ecology.'
www.counterfire.org/article/capi...
www.counterfire.org/article/capi...
Capitalism and the Cloud
Toby Miller and Joan Pedro Carañana examine the dangers and the costs of the AI bubble
A giant, hydra-headed spectre is haunting the UK.
www.counterfire.org
November 21, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Is this what Mark Carney and Evan Solomon are trying to bring to Canada? Built and powered with production from all these “fast tracked” mining projects?
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We’ve released Shifting Tides, a new briefing paper unpacking what sits behind TMC’s sudden pivot to the U.S.
It’s a move being sold as progress but our analysis shows it introduces a tangle of political, legal, and reputational risks that can’t be ignored.
Full report in our Linktree. Read it now!
It’s a move being sold as progress but our analysis shows it introduces a tangle of political, legal, and reputational risks that can’t be ignored.
Full report in our Linktree. Read it now!
November 21, 2025 at 4:30 AM
We’ve released Shifting Tides, a new briefing paper unpacking what sits behind TMC’s sudden pivot to the U.S.
It’s a move being sold as progress but our analysis shows it introduces a tangle of political, legal, and reputational risks that can’t be ignored.
Full report in our Linktree. Read it now!
It’s a move being sold as progress but our analysis shows it introduces a tangle of political, legal, and reputational risks that can’t be ignored.
Full report in our Linktree. Read it now!
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The Price of Gold gets its first review!
"Historian John Sandlos and geographer Arn Keeling present a thorough and compulsively readable analysis of the slow-motion disaster that has unfolded at Giant Mine."
@mcgillqueensup.bsky.social
www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/the-price-...
"Historian John Sandlos and geographer Arn Keeling present a thorough and compulsively readable analysis of the slow-motion disaster that has unfolded at Giant Mine."
@mcgillqueensup.bsky.social
www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/the-price-...
The Price of Gold: Mining, Pollution, and Resistance in Yellowknife by John Sandlos and Arn Keeling
Reviewed by Dawn Macdonald
www.theseaboardreview.ca
November 21, 2025 at 11:37 AM
The Price of Gold gets its first review!
"Historian John Sandlos and geographer Arn Keeling present a thorough and compulsively readable analysis of the slow-motion disaster that has unfolded at Giant Mine."
@mcgillqueensup.bsky.social
www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/the-price-...
"Historian John Sandlos and geographer Arn Keeling present a thorough and compulsively readable analysis of the slow-motion disaster that has unfolded at Giant Mine."
@mcgillqueensup.bsky.social
www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/the-price-...
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It's time to commercialize AI, "for the benefit of humanity," PM Carney says after landing some UAE IOUs for critical minerals upgrading. 🤔 nationalnewswatch.com/2025/11/21/c...
Carney wraps United Arab Emirates visit with pledge of $70B to be…
National Newswatch: Canada's most comprehensive site for political news and views.
nationalnewswatch.com
November 21, 2025 at 11:55 AM
It's time to commercialize AI, "for the benefit of humanity," PM Carney says after landing some UAE IOUs for critical minerals upgrading. 🤔 nationalnewswatch.com/2025/11/21/c...
As the race for rare earth elements accelerates in Canada, one Nova Scotia activist is warning about the environmental risks of rare earth mining — especially when the rare earth minerals are found near radioactive elements, like uranium and thorium.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Torngat Metals rare earth project poses radiation risks, says activist | CBC News
The race to mine rare earth elements in Canada is on. But Mary-Lou Harley, an activist with a PhD in chemistry, says proposals like Torngat Metals' Strange Lake Project near the Quebec-Labrador border...
www.cbc.ca
November 20, 2025 at 8:52 PM
As the race for rare earth elements accelerates in Canada, one Nova Scotia activist is warning about the environmental risks of rare earth mining — especially when the rare earth minerals are found near radioactive elements, like uranium and thorium.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
For each tonne of ore, the Sisson mine would produce less than 0.09 per cent marketable metal, and over 99.91 per cent waste in the form of mining residues containing many toxic substances, making it the biggest tungsten waste management project in the world.
nbmediacoop.org/2025/11/14/h...
nbmediacoop.org/2025/11/14/h...
Holt says uptick in Sisson mine development expected by spring [video]
New Brunswick Premier Susan Holt says that an uptick of development activity is expected at the site of the proposed
nbmediacoop.org
November 20, 2025 at 8:51 PM
For each tonne of ore, the Sisson mine would produce less than 0.09 per cent marketable metal, and over 99.91 per cent waste in the form of mining residues containing many toxic substances, making it the biggest tungsten waste management project in the world.
nbmediacoop.org/2025/11/14/h...
nbmediacoop.org/2025/11/14/h...
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Governments must be able to make decisions that protect the environment without fear that they will be sued by Canadian mining companies. Ecuadorians have been loud and clear that they stand by their country's constitutional protection against international arbitration.
Today, 100+ organizations and 48 academics from 19 countries around the world, to 🇨🇦DPM Metals Inc
: DPM must permanently shut down its #LomaLarga project in Ecuador and comply with the law
#HandsoffKimsakocha
#KimsakochaNoSeToca
Read in full: shorturl.at/qrVZX
: DPM must permanently shut down its #LomaLarga project in Ecuador and comply with the law
#HandsoffKimsakocha
#KimsakochaNoSeToca
Read in full: shorturl.at/qrVZX
November 20, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Governments must be able to make decisions that protect the environment without fear that they will be sued by Canadian mining companies. Ecuadorians have been loud and clear that they stand by their country's constitutional protection against international arbitration.
Today, 100+ organizations and 48 academics from 19 countries around the world, to 🇨🇦DPM Metals Inc
: DPM must permanently shut down its #LomaLarga project in Ecuador and comply with the law
#HandsoffKimsakocha
#KimsakochaNoSeToca
Read in full: shorturl.at/qrVZX
: DPM must permanently shut down its #LomaLarga project in Ecuador and comply with the law
#HandsoffKimsakocha
#KimsakochaNoSeToca
Read in full: shorturl.at/qrVZX
November 20, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Today, 100+ organizations and 48 academics from 19 countries around the world, to 🇨🇦DPM Metals Inc
: DPM must permanently shut down its #LomaLarga project in Ecuador and comply with the law
#HandsoffKimsakocha
#KimsakochaNoSeToca
Read in full: shorturl.at/qrVZX
: DPM must permanently shut down its #LomaLarga project in Ecuador and comply with the law
#HandsoffKimsakocha
#KimsakochaNoSeToca
Read in full: shorturl.at/qrVZX
The Carney government has doubled down on its extractivist agenda with the announcement of a second round of designated "projects of national importance" which includes several mining projects.
Read the full blog on our website: miningwatch.ca/blog/2025/11...
Read the full blog on our website: miningwatch.ca/blog/2025/11...
November 19, 2025 at 4:29 PM
The Carney government has doubled down on its extractivist agenda with the announcement of a second round of designated "projects of national importance" which includes several mining projects.
Read the full blog on our website: miningwatch.ca/blog/2025/11...
Read the full blog on our website: miningwatch.ca/blog/2025/11...
As the pieces fall into place for Eagle’s Nest, the Neskantaga First Nation — a fly-in community home to about 400 people living for more than 30 years under a boil water advisory — is fighting the development. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/17/n...
Ontario First Nation battles Australian-owned company over Ring of Fire mine
Without federal intervention, no environmental assessment will be carried out on a proposed mine in the Ring of Fire — a boon to Australian billionaires at the expense of the local Neskantaga First Na...
www.nationalobserver.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:28 PM
As the pieces fall into place for Eagle’s Nest, the Neskantaga First Nation — a fly-in community home to about 400 people living for more than 30 years under a boil water advisory — is fighting the development. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/17/n...
"Zenaida, former vice-president of CONAIE, called the referendum results a “historic triumph” for Indigenous peoples/said voters rejected “the national government’s policies that sought to open the door to more mining, oil/ logging, destroying our territories.” insideclimatenews.org/news/1711202...
Ecuador’s Voters Protect Rights of Nature, Reject Proposal to Rewrite Constitution - Inside Climate News
Ecuadorians handed their Trump-allied president a resounding defeat, choosing to maintain their “ecological constitution” and rejecting an attempt to allow foreign military bases in the country.
insideclimatenews.org
November 18, 2025 at 8:52 PM
"Zenaida, former vice-president of CONAIE, called the referendum results a “historic triumph” for Indigenous peoples/said voters rejected “the national government’s policies that sought to open the door to more mining, oil/ logging, destroying our territories.” insideclimatenews.org/news/1711202...
If you want to know why governments shouldn't be backing individual mining projects, the Sisson project is a good example.
“Strong countries are built on healthy communities and clean water, not giant pits and toxic waste.” www.miningwatch.ca/news/2025/11...
“Strong countries are built on healthy communities and clean water, not giant pits and toxic waste.” www.miningwatch.ca/news/2025/11...
No “nation-building” project: Sisson mine could leave lasting scar on New Brunswick | Mining Watch Canada
www.miningwatch.ca
November 18, 2025 at 1:44 AM
If you want to know why governments shouldn't be backing individual mining projects, the Sisson project is a good example.
“Strong countries are built on healthy communities and clean water, not giant pits and toxic waste.” www.miningwatch.ca/news/2025/11...
“Strong countries are built on healthy communities and clean water, not giant pits and toxic waste.” www.miningwatch.ca/news/2025/11...
Remember the rule about casinos: the house (in this case, the mining company) always wins.
Also, who in their right mind is promoting (or considering permitting) a heap-leach gold mine in Yukon?
www.aptnnews.ca/national-new...
Also, who in their right mind is promoting (or considering permitting) a heap-leach gold mine in Yukon?
www.aptnnews.ca/national-new...
Proposed Casino mine inches forward to Yukon’s first panel review
The company behind the first proposed Casino mine project will undergo Yukon’s highest form of review is now one step closer in the process.
www.aptnnews.ca
November 18, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Remember the rule about casinos: the house (in this case, the mining company) always wins.
Also, who in their right mind is promoting (or considering permitting) a heap-leach gold mine in Yukon?
www.aptnnews.ca/national-new...
Also, who in their right mind is promoting (or considering permitting) a heap-leach gold mine in Yukon?
www.aptnnews.ca/national-new...
The national interest is not served by pouring taxpayer money into corporate profits. Stabilizing the market must be done in a way that includes strengthening, not avoiding, Indigenous consent requirements, regulatory safeguards, and environmental protection. www.miningwatch.ca/blog/2025/11...
Projects of National Interest: Wrong Approach, Wrong Objective | Mining Watch Canada
www.miningwatch.ca
November 14, 2025 at 10:19 PM
The national interest is not served by pouring taxpayer money into corporate profits. Stabilizing the market must be done in a way that includes strengthening, not avoiding, Indigenous consent requirements, regulatory safeguards, and environmental protection. www.miningwatch.ca/blog/2025/11...
Upcoming Webinar!
We're hosting a virtual roundtable webinar bringing together frontline partners from Canada and around the world to discuss current struggles for mining justice, and share visions for the future.
Register now: miningwatch.ca/blog/2025/11...
We're hosting a virtual roundtable webinar bringing together frontline partners from Canada and around the world to discuss current struggles for mining justice, and share visions for the future.
Register now: miningwatch.ca/blog/2025/11...
November 14, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Upcoming Webinar!
We're hosting a virtual roundtable webinar bringing together frontline partners from Canada and around the world to discuss current struggles for mining justice, and share visions for the future.
Register now: miningwatch.ca/blog/2025/11...
We're hosting a virtual roundtable webinar bringing together frontline partners from Canada and around the world to discuss current struggles for mining justice, and share visions for the future.
Register now: miningwatch.ca/blog/2025/11...
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Projets d'intérêt national | « Alors que Nouveau Monde Graphite se présentait comme une solution à la crise climatique et n’en était qu’à l’étape des forages, nous observions déjà une détérioration inquiétante des cours d’eau autour de sa future mine.»
Communiqué👇
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Communiqué👇
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Accélérer les yeux fermés: un passe droit pour le projet minier Matawinie, déjà critiqué pour ses impacts sur l’eau - Eau Secours
13 novembre 2025 Montréal, le 13 novembre 2025 – Des organisations environnementales et citoyennes s’opposent à ce que le gouvernement du Canada ajoute le projet minier Matawinie, de Nouveau Monde Gra...
eausecours.org
November 13, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Projets d'intérêt national | « Alors que Nouveau Monde Graphite se présentait comme une solution à la crise climatique et n’en était qu’à l’étape des forages, nous observions déjà une détérioration inquiétante des cours d’eau autour de sa future mine.»
Communiqué👇
eausecours.org/accelerer-le...
Communiqué👇
eausecours.org/accelerer-le...
Today, a group of citizens delivered a petition to mining company Pan American Silver's HQ in Vancouver, demanding the company respect the self-determination of the Xinka Indigenous people and close the Escobal mine in southeastern Guatemala.
Read the press release: miningwatch.ca/news/2025/11...
Read the press release: miningwatch.ca/news/2025/11...
November 13, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Today, a group of citizens delivered a petition to mining company Pan American Silver's HQ in Vancouver, demanding the company respect the self-determination of the Xinka Indigenous people and close the Escobal mine in southeastern Guatemala.
Read the press release: miningwatch.ca/news/2025/11...
Read the press release: miningwatch.ca/news/2025/11...