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MiningWatch Canada @miningwatch.bsky.social · 3h

« Nous avons accueilli cette nouvelle avec un sentiment de doute, mais aussi avec la conviction que notre combat [contre DPM Metals $DPM.TO $DPMLF ] porte ses fruits », a déclaré Lauro Sigcha, président de la Fédération des organisations autochtones et paysannes de l'Azuay (FOA).

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MiningWatch Canada @miningwatch.bsky.social · 3h

Vous voulez comprendre pourquoi plusieurs organisations dans la région de Cuenca, en Équateur, mettent en garde contre la décision de la révocation de la licence environnementale accordée à DPM Metals ?

Check out le excellent reportage de Paloma Martinez
sur ici.radio-canada.ca/rci/fr/nouve...

[Reportage] Équateur : la révocation de licence d’une minière canadienne sème le doute | RCI

La décision suscite l'espoir, mais aussi des critiques en raison d'un manque de clarté technique.

ici.radio-canada.ca

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Reposted by MiningWatch Canada

Radio Canadá Internacional (RCI) en español @rcienespanol.bsky.social · 20h

Quito revocó la licencia ambiental a la canadiense Dundee Precious Metals. Organizaciones locales e internacionales advierten que aunque buena a primera vista, la decisión carece de sustento técnico y podría ser una maniobra política

shorturl.at/KG4HT

@miningwatch.bsky.social

#FOAAzuay

[Reportaje] Ecuador revoca licencia a minera canadiense: reacciones y dudas | RCI

La decisión sobre Loma Larga genera esperanza aunque también suscita críticas por falta de claridad técnica.

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MiningWatch Canada @miningwatch.bsky.social · 1d

In 2022, UN Special Rapporteurs stated that they were "especially concerned that these spills severely affect the right to life... the right to potable water & the right to a clean, healthy... environment free of toxic substances.”
miningwatch.ca/news/2022/11...

UN Calls Out Polluting Argentine Mine | Mining Watch Canada

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MiningWatch Canada @miningwatch.bsky.social · 1d

10 yrs after the first spill at Barrick Gold’s Veladero mine, in Argentina, that released toxic substances into downstream watersheds causing irreparable harm to the Jáchal river & downstream communities,
@jachalnosetoca.bsky.social
continues to demand justice!
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwnI...

10 años del derrame en Veladero, una herida abierta en la Cordillera de San Juan

YouTube video by Huarpe Tv

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MiningWatch Canada @miningwatch.bsky.social · 3d

Ecuador revokes DPM Metals' environmental license for the Loma Larga project!

“It has been a decades-long struggle,” says Cuenca's Mayor Cristian Zamora, one of the leading voices opposing the mine.

www.ctvnews.ca/business/art...

Ecuador revokes environmental license for Canada’s DPM to develop gold project

Ecuador’s government has revoked the environmental license granted to Canadian mining company DPM Metals DPM.TO for the development of Loma Larga, a gold project in an environmentally sensitive area, ...

www.ctvnews.ca

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MiningWatch Canada @miningwatch.bsky.social · 3d

🙌 PEOPLE POWER!

This Saturday, the Ecuadorian government announced that it has revoked the environmental license for the Loma Larga project!

This is the result of community power and peaceful resistance!
DPM Metals must abide by the law, listen to communities and definitively cancel the project!

Photo credit: Sin Etiquetas +593. Protesters flood the streets in Cuenca, Ecuador for the protection of water and the paramo de Kimsakocha, carrying signs and banners in the massive September 16th protested dubbed the 5th River.

Photo credit: Sin Etiquetas +593. Protesters carry a large demon effigy with the name of the mining company threatening their water source on the front: Dundee precious metals.

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MiningWatch Canada @miningwatch.bsky.social · 3d

MiningWatch congratulates the Tŝilhqot’in National Government on their historic, long fought agreement - Teẑtan Biny Gagaghut'i, which was officially celebrated this weekend!

📸: Tŝilhqot’in National Government

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MiningWatch Canada @miningwatch.bsky.social · 8d

Other organizers of the March for Protection of Water in Cuenca, including the Cuenca Water Council (Cabildo por el Agua de Cuenca in Spanish), have also being target of criminalization, arbitrary detentions, and even frozen bank accounts.

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MiningWatch Canada @miningwatch.bsky.social · 8d

"The government seeks to criminalize us with fabricated crimes, when our only 'crime' is defending water and protecting Kimsakocha." said Lauro Sigcha, president of the Federation of Indigenous and Campesino Organizations of Azuay (FOA)

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MiningWatch Canada @miningwatch.bsky.social · 8d

The Ecuadorian government been intensifying its persecution of water defenders and social organizations, and harassing water defenders, by surveilling their homes and offices, and the Tarqui community center.

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MiningWatch Canada @miningwatch.bsky.social · 8d

In a press conference this week, water defenders, Indigenous organizations, trade unions, and student unions denounced the criminalization of social protest in Azuay since the Massive March for Protection of Water in Cuenca on September 16.

📸: FOA Azuay

A photograph of the press release sent out to the media by Indigenous organizations, water defenders, and trade and student unions in Azuay, Ecuador on September 30th.

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MiningWatch Canada @miningwatch.bsky.social · 8d

Glad to see Green Party Leader Elizabeth May amplifying the demands of the Xinka people to permanently shut down the Escobal mine - owned by Vancouver-based Pan American Silver!

And we are also curious about when the CORE will have a new ombudsperson again, and be given real teeth to do its work.

Green Party of Canada | Parti Vert du Canada @canadiangreens.bsky.social · 13d

When Elizabeth May, Leader of the Green Party of Canada, asked why the office that investigates human rights abuses by Canadian companies abroad has been left vacant for months, the Minister for International Trade had no answer. Watch the full exchange here:

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MiningWatch Canada @miningwatch.bsky.social · 9d

Timely and important commentary. www.theenergymix.com/national-day...

National Day for Truth & Reconciliation: ‘Rhetoric’ for Indigenous Rights and Climate; Fast Track for Fossil Fuels

A decade after the federal government promised to implement the Truth & Reconciliation Commission’s 94 Calls to Action and meet the targets in the Paris climate agreement, both goals are falling out o...

www.theenergymix.com

MiningWatch Canada @miningwatch.bsky.social · 10d

@coalitionqmm.bsky.social @rodrigue-turgeon.bsky.social

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MiningWatch Canada @miningwatch.bsky.social · 10d

"Vendredi passé à Malartic, lors du passage de François Legault, j’ai été témoin d’un acte de violence politique dont je n’avais jamais entendu parler au Québec, en près d’une décennie à défendre les gens face aux activités minières"

Lire l'article: www.journaldemontreal.com/2025/09/27/l...

La loi et l’ordre, même pour le premier ministre?

Vendredi passé à Malartic, j’ai été témoin d’un acte de violence politique dont je n’avais jamais entendu parler au Québec.

www.journaldemontreal.com

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MiningWatch Canada @miningwatch.bsky.social · 10d

As strikes and mass protests rock Ecuador, three Canadian mining projects are caught in the crosshairs: SilverCorp's El Domo, DPM Metals' Loma Larga and Atico's La Plata project.

Protesters are demanding all three environmental licenses be canceled.

Full article: www.biv.com/news/resourc...

Ecuador suspends Canadian-owned mining licence after mass protests

Critics accuse Ecuador's president of a conflict of interest due to his family's investments in a Canadian mining firm that could be shielded by a pending Canada-Ecuador free trade agreement.

www.biv.com

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MiningWatch Canada @miningwatch.bsky.social · 13d

Communities peacefully resisting #SilverCorpMetals #ElDomo-Curipamba Inc $SVM.TO project demand answers at AGM

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MiningWatch Canada @miningwatch.bsky.social · 13d

Tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets/blocked highways in a nationwide strike led by the CONAIE

One demand of the strike is that the Ecuadorian govt annul the environmental/mineral exploitation licenses granted to SilverCorp $SVM.TO Curipamba-El Domo project
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MiningWatch Canada @miningwatch.bsky.social · 13d

While shareholders gather in Vancouver, Canada, for Silvercorp Metals Inc.’s AG $SVM.TO, Ecuador is experiencing widespread unrest.

Read our joint press release: shorturl.at/8yT9X
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MiningWatch Canada @miningwatch.bsky.social · 14d

Marisol Guerra et Marta Muñoz ont parcouru le Canada pour demander le respect de la décision du Parlement xinca, un peuple autochtone du Guatemala, qui a refusé de donner son consentement au projet minier El Escobal de Pan American Silver.
ici.radio-canada.ca/rci/fr/nouve...

[Reportage] Des Autochtones du Guatemala en tournée au Canada pour dénoncer une mine | RCI

Le projet minier El Escobal appartient à Pan American Silver, dont le siège social est situé à Vancouver.

ici.radio-canada.ca

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MiningWatch Canada @miningwatch.bsky.social · 14d

Representatives from the governments of *Canada, France, and Germany appeared at the court yesterday to observe the ruling, a reminder that governments and international civil society are watching this case closely.

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MiningWatch Canada @miningwatch.bsky.social · 14d

Once again, the 5 prominent Water Defenders who faced politically-motivated charges have been declared innocent!!
International Allies against Mining in El Salvador call:
✅The Salvadoran Attorney General to abstain from further legal action
✅ All civil liabilities are dropped

Institute for Policy Studies @ips-dc.org · 15d

NEW: Today, a tribunal in El Salvador found the five Water Defenders who faced politically-motivated charges innocent of all charges. ✊

International Allies against Mining in El Salvador celebrates this outcome and demands that all civil liabilities are finally dropped. Statement:

International Allies against Mining in El Salvador Applauds Judicial Ruling That Finds All Five Water Defenders Innocent of All Charges - Institute for Policy Studies

The five prominent Water Defenders who faced politically-motivated charges are heroes of El Salvador — and they should never have been arrested.

ips-dc.org

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MiningWatch Canada @miningwatch.bsky.social · 16d

“There’s a lot of entities that come in, they take from the north and give nothing back,” [Alexandra] Bridges says. “People are really changing their entire lives to accommodate an industry that is designed to extract resources as quickly and efficiently as possible.”
thenarwhal.ca/critical-min...

Massive nickel mine planned north of Timmins, Ontario | The Narwhal

Amid a critical minerals rush, Canada Nickel’s Crawford mine project offers risks and opportunities for Timmins, in northern Ontario.

thenarwhal.ca

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MiningWatch Canada @miningwatch.bsky.social · 16d

Watch the full press conference on parliament hill here: www.cpac.ca/headline-pol...

Guatemalan Indigenous Leaders Urge Closure of B.C.-Owned Mine

At a news conference in Ottawa, Marisol Guerra and Marta Muñoz, two Xinka women from Guatemala, call on the Canadian government to support the closure of Vancouver-based Pan American Silver’s Escobal ...

www.cpac.ca

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