In other words, they will not even be recording water withdrawals. The Ontario government is proposing changes that would allow hundreds of mineral exploration companies to take water for early-stage work without a permit. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/09/n...

On #HumanRightsDefendersDay, Colombian environmental defenders & inter allies are questioning Canadian authorities’ ongoing silence as #Santurbán Committee faces threats related to their activism against Aris Mining's Soto Norte project $ARIS.TO Blog 👉 shorturl.at/O9Jyt 🧵

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"Northcliff itself had announced that it had been awarded US $15 million from the United States Department of Defense (rebranded as the Department of War in September 2025) to develop the mine."

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.

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:

"A northwestern Ontario First Nation [..] has directed its leaders to blockade the highway if the province grants mineral extraction permits near its water source." "All of the benefits will go to people that won't benefit us." #Ontario #Canada #Mining #Transportation #Water #Protest

For two years, a Sudanese paramilitary force has been massacring civilians—with Canadian-made weapons. @nisrinelamin.bsky.social and Ismail Adam join @desmondcole.bsky.social to discuss how decades of Canadian mining interests and weapons smuggling makes Ottawa complicit in the war in Sudan.

A tragedy connected to the transition minerals. Our thoughts go to the affected communities and families 🙏🏽

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...

Great blog by Anna Baggio. "While the Premier uses his bully pulpit and taxpayers’ dollars to promote Ring of Fire, there is an alternative. Grassroots leaders are showing us there is another way based on truth, humility and taking care of the Earth." wildlandsleague.org/wildlands-in...

NEW: The Guatemalan Xinka People are defending their territory, water and health by demanding the closure of the toxic Escobal mine — but its Canada-based owner is ignoring them. Show solidarity and send a message to Pan American Silver CEO Michael Steinmann now: act.earthworks.org/page/87881/p...

The Sudan Solidarity Collective is doing a big fundraising push to support our partners in El Fashir to support food distribution, evacuation and medications. Please help us boost our support. Please share and donate 👇🏾 . sudansolidarity.com

Read and share this article by Prof. Stanley highlighting how the government has subsidized mineral exploration on Grassy Narrows territory that helped Kinross #FreeGrassy #GrassyNarrows

Tell Pan American Silver to respect the Xinka People's rights and permanently close the Escobal mine. Sign the petition here: act.earthworks.org/page/87881/p...

Excellent article, with excellent comments from Nikki Skuce. “Our critical minerals strategy is full of so many holes,” Skuce said. “It’s just being used as a tool to push for more mining, whether it’s for gold to sit in the basement of a bank or a rare earth element to be used in an F-35.”

Xinka leaders are visiting Toronto next week. They have been fighting Canadian mining company Pan American Silver's attack on Indigenous self-determination Don't miss this event at York University on Thurs Sept 18!

Kinross Gold wants to dump inadequately treated industrial wastewater upstream of Grassy Narrows. Speak out before Ontario makes its decision. Take action with 1 click: leadnow.ca/campaigns/re... #FreeGrassy #GrassyNarrows

Marten Falls has filed a statement of claim asking for interim and permanent injunctions preventing Ontario and Canada from funding or participating in mining-related activities in the Ring of Fire.

Canadian embassies are failing activists abroad who defend land and resources against exploitation by Canadian corporations. #HumanRights buff.ly/xtxNjB2

Governments across Canada are rewriting the rules to fast-track projects and silence public input. Ecojustice is sounding the alarm on Bills 5, 15, and C-5 — three power grabs that put nature, democracy, and Indigenous rights at risk. #cdnpoli #Ecojustice

"With roughly 60 percent of the world’s mining companies headquartered in Canada, the federal government has long operated as an enabler of corporate power abroad, often at the expense of environmental stewardship and democratic decision-making in the Global South."

I recommend reading this report by Dr. Suliman Baldo @SulimanBaldo and Ahmed Soliman on gold and the war in Sudan. It demonstrates that most of the gold extracted from Sudan is ending up in the UAE, including gold mined in SAF controlled areas. www.chathamhouse.org/sites/defaul...

Help MISN support land defenders! We are looking for donations to our impacted community fund to support mining impacted communities globally.

"The last thing we need is the threat of more poison in our water… How many times can the government put our health and way of life in the hands of a dangerous industry that cares only about profits?” freegrassy.net/news/the-thr...

We stand in solidarity with communities in Las Naves, Ecuador facing violent repression. Since last month, they have been blocking access to the Domo Curipamba project by 🇨🇦Silvercorp Metals Inc and Salazar Resources 📸 Frente Nacional Antiminero

DAY 3🚨 of repression in Las Naves🇪🇨: Rural communities report police violence as they stand up against Canadian copper project, owned by Silvercorp Metals Inc $SVM.TO & Salazar Resources $SRL We demand the Canadian embassy support these environmental defenders #VoicesAtRisk🗣️

"While the bill does acknowledge a duty to consult Indigenous peoples if their rights “may be adversely affected,” it does not define how that consultation must occur. There is no requirement to consult [...] unless impacts on rights are explicitly triggered."

NEW: After a historic Indigenous consultation process, the Xinka people of Guatemala have said NO to Vancouver-based Pan American Silver’s Escobal mine. Canada must respect their decision, not undermine it, writes @ubcic.bsky.social‬ President Grand Chief Stewart Phillip.

"The historical alliance between Canadian mining corporations and the Guatemalan government has allowed for systematic killing with impunity, promoting a culture of silence and community fracturing in El Estor. Mata Asencio is the first to be killed for resisting mining in neighbouring Livingston."

Canada tabled sweeping legislation today to increase border security, incl powers to cancel or suspend immigration docs immediately, and huge crack downs on asylum applications While Canadians can feel smug about their nationalism in this tarriff-trade war, it's a pretext for anti-migrant control.

We are honored to invite you to our 5th workshop4sudan with Leanne Betasamosake Simpson and Robyn Maynard to discuss Leanne’s new book A Theory of Water. Sign up here and please share widely: chuffed.org/project/work...

Communities, environmental groups voice concerns about controversial consultation process approval for Canadian mining project in Ecuador ➡️https://shorturl.at/VUKB6

Two beloved comrades are facing violence from the Canadian immigration system as it escalates its racist attack on migrants. Help raise 20k to support their legal fees and basic needs. Check out beautiful offerings by community in this auction, bid till June 18 www.weavingourworlds.ca/mj-auction/

Your weekend read. Catch up on @brandimorin.bsky.social's riveting reporting from #Ecuador, investigating Canadian #mining operations that threaten the survival of an entire Indigenous community. Read what Canadian companies and the Canadian government is allowing in your name: #cdnpoli #climate

Misael Mata Asencio, a defender of Maya Q'eqchi' territory in Guatemala, was killed on May 14, just days after he participated in a hike to look at exploratory mining drilling holes linked to a Canadian company focused on critical minerals: pbicanada.org/2025/05/20/m... #PBIaccompanies

We are deeply troubled to learn about the assassination of Misael Mata Asencio on May 14, 2025. Asencio was a land defender from the Maya Q’eqchi’ village of Las Flores in Livingston, Guatemala.

After a historic seven year consultation, today the Xinka Parliament released the long-awaited decision on the Escobal Silver Mine - they withhold their consent to the project! Read more: www.miningwatch.ca/news/2025/5/...

Barrick Gold held their AGM this morning - and once again, they used an online format as a way to silence any criticism. But communities around the world continue to fight back against Barrick's toxic mines and violent tactics. www.miningwatch.ca/news/2025/5/...

As Barrick Gold shareholders meet virtually at their AGM to discuss record high gold prices, impacted communities around the world are speaking out about environmental and human rights abuses! Today we put the spotlight on 7 ongoing community struggles: bit.ly/4k4YybY

Barrick Gold's AGM is today — 11 communities in the Dominican Republic have a clear message: they will not be part of the “more than 100 fatalities” predicted if nearby tailings dams fail. They are urgently calling for relocation before tragedy strikes! Full story: bit.ly/barrick-DR-b...

TOMORROW! Register here: bit.ly/fight-for-closure

"What’s particularly alarming is how the mining industry is actively undermining Indigenous rights while cloaking itself in the language of sustainability."

Check out powerful song by #GrassyNarrows youth called "Mercury In The Water" open.spotify.com/track/7wMeUk... #FreeGrassy

7 years after an environmental administrator / three secretaries of the environment were charged with negligence that resulted in a toxic cyanide spill at Canadian miner Barrick Gold’s Veladero gold mine in Argentina, the case has still not gone to trial news.mongabay.com/2025/04/stil...

Save the date for our upcoming webinar organized with @earthworks.bsky.social - The fight for permanent closure: Panamanians address renewed efforts to reopen the Cobre Panamá Canadian copper mine! 🗓️ Wed, May 7 ⏲️ 11am PST/ 1pm Panamá/ 2pm EST Register now: bit.ly/fight-for-cl...

As Vancouver-based Fortuna Mining Corp. sells its gold and silver mine near Oaxaca City in Mexico to a Peruvian company, we remember the opponents of this mine who were killed, including Bernardo Mendez Vasquez and Bernardo Vásquez Sánchez: pbicanada.org/2025/04/15/a... #PBIaccompanies

The PBI-Mexico accompanied Ejido El Bajío has expressed their solidarity with the Ejido Carrizalillo and their struggle against the Canadian mining company Equinox Gold and its Los Filos gold mine 200 kilometres southwest of Mexico City: pbicanada.org/2025/04/20/p... #PBIaccompanies

🚨The Ombudsman's Office of Colombia is demanding that local authorities& mining companies (including the Canadian company Aris Mining) stop stigmatizing & criminalizing members of the Committee for the Defence of Water and Páramo of Santurbán metropolitano.com.co/defensoria-d... 1/🧵

Maya Q’eqchi’ communities in Guatemala are resisting yet another Canadian mining project - Montreal based Central American Nickel. 54 communities are calling for the mining license to be revoked. mailchi.mp/rightsaction...