Didn’t take long to demonstrate (a) why government designating specific projects for support instead of coming up with better overall policies is a bad idea, and (b) notwithstanding (a), why the process for any such designation needs to be transparent and accountable. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

🔴MiningWatch Canada joins 49 signatories worldwide, condemning the attack on the life of Misael Socarrás Ipuana - a Wayúu Indigenous defender of the Arroyo Bruno in La Guajira, Colombia, where Glencore's Cerrejón coal mine operates. londonminingnetwork.org/2025/12/inte...

🗣️ Congrès QMM | Les 17 et 18 novembre, 70 membres et partenaires de la Coalition QMM se sont rassemblés pour échanger sur les politiques minières et les voix citoyennes face à l’industrie et aux décisions gouvernementales. 🔗 Lisez le rapport au complet ici: miningwatch.ca/fr/2025/12/1...

💥 Conférence: Minerai de fer et terres rares | Une soirée d'info sur la santé humaine et l'acceptabilité sociale qui a réuni une centaine de personnes au Musée Shaputuan pour discuter des impacts des minéraux dits critiques dans la région. 🔗 Rapport et vidéos ici: miningwatch.ca/fr/2025/12/1...

📣 Récapitulatif de fin d'année | Alors que 2025 tire à sa fin, nous avons publié nos rapports sur deux événements marquants que nous avons organisé cet automne.

"The best way to get an industry up and running is to have policies that raise the tide for everyone, not just choosing winners.” This sort of public ownership also encourages all sorts of corruption... grist.org/energy/the-y...

The Critical Raw Materials Act is in the spotlight at EU Raw Materials Week. We looked at the companies behind EU strategic mineral projects outside EU borders – and found potentially serious gaps in human rights policies and practices. Read the report: www.business-humanrights.org/en/from-us/b...

🔴All eyes on Kimsakocha! Today, Lauro Sigcha, president of the Federation of Indigenous and Peasant Organizations of Azuay (FOA), Ecuador, will appear at the Second Prosecutor's Office for Rapid Solutions in Cuenca after communities carried out a cleanup minga in the Kimsakocha páramo in Sept 🧵

🎨 Notre présentation 👉 quebecmeilleuremine.org/2025/12/16/c...

💸 Commandites minières | Comment soutenir les artistes et la culture sans que les minières limitent ou contraignent leur expression artistique? 🎭 Telle était la question au coeur de nos échanges tenus hier avec le Conseil de la culture de l'Abitibi-Témiscamingue Notre présentation ci-dessous👇

🧵 1/ New reporting confirms another environmental spill linked to the Veladero mine in Argentina. The National University of Cuyo found mercury, chlorine, and aluminum contamination in the Cuesta del Viento Dam, which receives water from the Veladero site. agenciatierraviva.com.ar/el-desarroll...

Join us in early 2026 for an event series co-hosted by @miningwatch.bsky.social examining key issues surrounding so-called "critical minerals." See the registration details on our website. @cnca-rcrce.bsky.social @canrac.bsky.social

Rejoignez-nous au début de l'année 2026 pour une série d'événements co-organisés par @miningwatch.bsky.social qui examineront les questions clés relatives aux « minéraux critiques ». Consultez les détails de l'inscription sur notre site web. @cnca-rcrce.bsky.social @canrac.bsky.social

Great essay. "In the rush to build, it’s easy to forget: what we fail to plan for at the end will become the next generation’s crisis."

“These protections are in place for a reason," said Anishinabek Nation Grand Council Chief Linda Debassige in a statement. “We’ve seen how extractive industries can devastate the areas they work in and push an ecosystem to its breaking point.” www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/16/n...

Kinross Gold wants to dump inadequately treated industrial wastewater upstream of Grassy Narrows. Speak out before Ontario makes its decision.

Saturday | 10:25 PT Jamie Kneen of @miningwatch.bsky.social on the BC Court of Appeal landmark victory for Gitxaała and Ehattesaht First Nations that says B.C. must reform its colonial-era “free entry” mineral staking system to align with #UNDRIP @reformbcmining.bsky.social @ubcic.bsky.social

IPS-Global Economy pgm joins this call for a full audit of the Cobre Panama mine toward its definitive closure. Without a doubt, the billion-dollar ISDS suits brought against Panama by First Quantum and associates under the Panama-Canada FTA and other agreements are weakening the process #StopISDS

Canada-Ecuador Free Trade Agreement signing pushed to 2026 as legal/technical scrub continues. Canadian ambassador promotes pact in panel this week. www.eloriente.com/articulo/can...

"Viviana Herrera, a MiningWatch coordinator, argues the audit framework contains major gaps, beginning with the exclusion of more than half of First Quantum’s environmental commitments, including 170 obligations outlined in the mine’s Environmental Impact Study." www.mining.com/panama-to-ch...

In support of organizations & civil society in Panama, MiningWatch Canada & four other international orgs have signed onto this letter to the Government of Panama and First Quantum, echoing concerns regarding the audit of the Cobre Panama mine 🧵 ✍️ shorturl.at/MbCNp

On #HumanRightsDefendersDay, we stand with those fighting to protect the Santurbán páramo in #Colombia from mining, as they face continued threats. Governments and companies must respect and protect the rights of environmental defenders. Learn more via @miningwatch.bsky.social 👇 shorturl.at/O9Jyt

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 🧵

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...

Join Earthworks for an illuminating book talk with @triofrancos.bsky.social, author of Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism. 📅 Wednesday, December 17 ⏰ noon PT / 3 pm ET 🌎 Virtual on Zoom 🔗 Register now ➡️ bit.ly/extractionbooktalk 📖 Buy the book ➡️ bit.ly/extractionbook

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: quebecmeilleuremine.org/2025/11/19/c...

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...

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

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...

"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 www.hrw.org/news/2025/12...

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

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.

"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" ici.radio-canada.ca/rci/es/notic...

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

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

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:

🇨🇦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 🧵1 canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...

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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“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 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-...

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/...

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...