MiningWatch Canada

Congrès QMM 2025 | Par notre déclaration, nous réaffirmons que le modèle actuel, fondé sur la dépossession, la consommation intensive de minéraux, et la primauté de l’économie extractive, ne peut plus servir de fondement à l’avenir du Québec:

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We stand in solidarity with the community leaders being criminalized - defending water should not be a crime! Hands off Kimsakocha!

At a press conference in Cuenca, Ecuador, water defenders stand with signs denouncing the criminalization of community leaders by a Canadian mining company.

💧The water defenders being targeted have been involved in legal action against the company, community activities like environmental clean ups, and the massive march for water on September 16th in Cuenca, Ecuador. Many have been resisting mining for over 30 years!

MiningWatch denounces the criminalization of water defenders by DPM Metals for cleaning up waste left by the company in the paramo de Kimsakocha!

Read the press release from the Federation of Indigenous and Campesino Organizations of Azuay: miningwatch.ca/news/2025/11...

Open Letter Urges Preservation of El Salvador's Historic Ban on Metals Mining - Institute for Policy Studies 153 faith-based organizations from 25 countries call upon the Salvadoran government to reject metals mining projects that would threaten Salvadoran communities.

NEW: A letter released today from 153 faith-based organizations across 25 countries expresses solidarity with Salvadorans' right to clean water by urging the preservation of their hard-won 2017 ban on metals mining, which was overturned last year by Bukele.

Statement:

TODAY!! As persecution of water defenders continues in #ElSalvador, international leaders will hold a virtual press conference to voice their support for the rights and rightful struggle of courageous faith communities working to protect clean water. #WaterIsLife #ElSalvador #mining #VoicesAtRisk

A call for land protection amidst Ontario’s Ring of Fire talk | The Narwhal As Ontario Premier Doug Ford signed an agreement with Marten Falls First Nation over its Ring of Fire road, other nations call for environmental protection and support for crises in their communities

As Premier Doug Ford signed the third agreement for infrastructure funding with communities along the proposed route of a Ring of Fire road, neighbouring First Nations question if Ontario’s priorities are too narrow. thenarwhal.ca/ring-of-fire...

An Opportunity to Address Mining Abuses Globally When 29-year-old Norbert Amoya went to fetch water from a river in northern Zambia earlier this year, he found large numbers of dead fish and the water had a strange smell. The cause was a major minin...

"As demand for minerals for energy transition, defense, and other technology increases, it is vital that governments around the world work to protect the environment and ensure human rights safeguards in global mineral supply chains"

We need momentum for this initiative

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Onigaming First Nation says no to mining without consent | The Narwhal In northwestern Ontario, a grieving Onigaming First Nation says it would blockade the highway if mining permits are granted without consent

Onigaming First Nation in northern Ontario says it’s done being ignored, as mining plans that threaten its water advance without its consent. For a community grieving multiple losses, it's one struggle of many. Via @jonthompson.bsky.social + @ricochetmedia.bsky.social: thenarwhal.ca/onigaming-fi...

🤯 Mindblown Monday: New research shows deep-sea mining plumes act like "junk food" for ocean life—diluting marine snow with nutrient-poor sediment.
Impacts ripple from tiny organisms up to tuna, seabirds & whales.

Join the call for a moratorium.

🔗 lnkd.in/gJCJjB6Z

#MindblownMondays #DSMC

Important piece from @woodsideful.bsky.social

YouTube video by APTN News First Nation chief on highway blockade and taking legal action against Ontario | APTN News

Chief Jeff Copenace of Onigaming First Nation speaks on taking legal action against the province of Ontario and numerous resource companies if they decide to move forward on projects without the First Nation’s consent.

[Reportaje] La mina Cobre Panamá, con capital canadiense, podría reiniciar actividades | RCI A dos años del fallo de la Corte Suprema contra la mina, Panamá avanza en auditoría y vislumbra la reapertura.

"A dos años del fallo de la Corte Suprema de Panamá, que declaró inconstitucional el contrato de la mina Cobre Panamá, el gobierno panameño anunció que la auditoría solicitada dará resultados pronto y que existe la posibilidad de una reapertura de la mina"
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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

Ontario First Nation prepared to block highway to stop mining near drinking water source: ricochet.media/indigenous/o...

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.

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

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...

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:

The conflict centres on a study commissioned by the municipality, aimed at designating the Rocín River Valley—a high-altitude ecosystem with glaciers, wetlands/endemic species—as a protected area. Los Andes Copper has sought to discredit both the study and the officials behind it

🇨🇦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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My Broadcast YouTube video by MACUA & WAMUA

Watch MACUA's full press briefing on Youtube: www.youtube.com/live/VMnTBAg...

Read our full solidarity statement with MACUA here:

miningwatch.ca/blog/2025/11...

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.

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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

“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...

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?

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!

The Price of Gold: Mining, Pollution, and Resistance in Yellowknife by John Sandlos and Arn Keeling Reviewed by Dawn Macdonald

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-...

Carney wraps United Arab Emirates visit with pledge of $70B to be… National Newswatch: Canada's most comprehensive site for political news and views.

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...

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...

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/...

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

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.
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