Brief article on The Ecuador-Canada Free Trade Agreement & the Upcoming Referendum in Ecuador on whether to rewrite the world’s only constitution that recognizes the Rights of Nature, with sharp comments from✍️ @lughiotto.bsky.social -TNI ▶️ shorturl.at/qdBM1 🧵1/

The budget just repackaged existing priorities lists; we're still waiting for the next round of announcements of Projects of National Importance. Doug Ford has demanded that the federal regional assessment on the "Ring of Fire" area be canned, even though it explicitly excludes the road projects.

HOT OFF THE PRESS! The Hoodwinked Collaborative is proud to unveil a preview chapter from the forthcoming Fourth Edition of Hoodwinked in the Hothouse: Artificial Intelligence (AI) climatefalsesolutions.org/artificial-i...

Communiqué- Eau Secours, avec @miningwatch.bsky.social et la @coalitionqmm.bsky.social demande au gouvernement du Canada d’abroger un article de réglement absolument terrifiant qui permet la destruction de lacs afin que des minières y déversent leurs déchets. eausecours.org/destruction-...

We're hiring! Join our small but mighty team as Interim Latin American Program Coordinator! Read more about the position and how to apply here: miningwatch.ca/blog/2025/11...

The Agrarian Representatives of the Ejido de Carrizalillo are denouncing Equinox Gold - the company has allegedly been involved in attempts to threaten and criminalize their resistance by falsely linking them to organized crime. Read the full press release: miningwatch.ca/news/2025/11...

@jachalnosetoca.bsky.social Communities in Iglesias, Argentina, the occurrence of dead fish at the Cuesta del Viento Dam near Canada's Barrick Gold's Veladero mine

💧 Passe à l'action pour protéger les lacs et les rivières contre les déchets miniers ! Demandez aux ministres responsables d’arrêter cette pratique insensée dès maintenant, avant qu’il ne soit trop tard: eausecours.org/agir/arreton...

Bravo à @eausecours.bsky.social d'avoir organisé cette action importante pour exiger la fin du sacrifice des lacs et rivières au profit des minières. Merci pour votre leadership important sur ce dossier!

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...

Canadians call for a strong and independent CORE to investigate Canadian corporate abuse abroad. Instead, the government has left the position vacant. Signals suggest that the government may be planning to quietly close down the office. 👉 cnca-rcrce.ca/why-is-core-...

"Over the past 18 months, the Canadian govt has negotiated an FTA with Ecuador, claiming the two countries share important values of respect for democracy/HR Yet, during the same time, the HR situation in 🇪🇨 has deteriorated to unprecedented levels of militarization" www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/1...

Le 🇨🇦 est-il en train de fermer « premier organisme de surveillance des entreprises du genre » ? 👉 cnca-rcrce.ca/fr/2025/10/2...

Is 🇨🇦 quietly closing down the @CORE_Ombuds? 👉 tinyurl.com/eve8hh2w

« Ce qu'on veut de la part du promoteur, c’est qu’il dévoile ses cartes, qu'on puisse étudier son étude d'impact. » remarque Rodrigue Turgeon, co-porte-parole de la Coalition Québec meilleure mine @coalitionqmm.bsky.social ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/220...

March for life and water in Penco, Chile! Large community march against Canadian mining company Aclara Resources' Rare Earth Mining project $ARA.TO. Penco is not for sale! #FueraAclara

"The Vizcachitas project, owned by [Canadian] Los Andes Copper Ltd.,...has been presented by the company as a solution to help meet the demands of the global green energy transition." news.mongabay.com/2025/10/rese...

Les beaux discours « écoresponsables » et « d'intérêt national » s’effritent - un allié de Trump climato-sceptique est président du CA de Métaux Torngat.

We are now up to 39 countries calling for a moratorium on deep sea mining!!

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...

☢️ “They won’t be able to isolate all the uranium on the mine site,” Turgeon said, adding this is just one of many concerns with the project. Read the full article here: www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/17/a...

Rejoignez-nous ce jeudi au Musée Shaputuan à Uashat! Pour plus d'infos, visitez: bit.ly/7-iles-evene...

Oooops...Prime Minister Carney began his term listening to energy and mining lobbyists, not environmental groups: thenarwhal.ca/carney-natur...

📅 Save the date! Nov 25 2025, 6-7:30pm! To conclude our 25th anniversary fundraising campaign, and launch our legacy giving program, we’re hosting a webinar roundtable with frontline partners! Stay tuned — full invite + registration link coming soon!

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.”

We are deeply concerned by the smear campaign targeting CIAM Panama, for their tireless work in bringing international visibility to the serious environmental and human rights impacts of the Cobre Panama mine, and advocating for corporate accountability.

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...

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

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! 🧵 www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwnI...

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...

🙌 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!

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

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

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.

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

"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...

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...

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 🧵

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...

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

“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...

PRESS RELEASE: Xinka Leaders Call on Canada to Respect Self-determination over Canadian-owned mine “We are calling on Canadian authorities to publicly express support for our right to self-determination and our decision to deny consent for the Escobal mine” miningwatch.ca/news/2025/9/...

"Vinimos a decirle a Canadá que el pueblo xinka ha decidido que no quiere que continúe la empresa minera en nuestro territorio y pedimos el cierre definitivo", dijo Marisol Guerra, una de las dos delegadas xinkas de paso por Canadá.

📬 ICYMI: Here’s a quick recap from our September newsletter on Bill 15 and the government’s public survey, which alarmingly includes mining among the types of projects that could be fast-tracked under the new law. 🧵👇(1/9)

A highly controversial new law in Turkey allows mining in olive groves, requiring tree transplantation. My new open-access article in @politicalgeography.bsky.social explores the making of "movable nature"— salvage work that moves nature out of the way of infrastructure and extraction projects.

Last week, thousands hit the streets in Cuenca, Ecuador to protect water and the páramo de Kimsakocha from mining. Protesters are demanding the Ecuadorian government revoke 🇨🇦 environmental licence or face further action. Full blog: bit.ly/3ItYvJN

Ontario ombudsman Paul Dubé criticizes the province and the feds for their inaction on its deplorable living conditions in Neskantaga First Nation. Hear more on APTN News Brief:

«Si c’est à ça que sert l’énergie propre du Québec, on ne peut plus dire que c’est de l’énergie propre» dit l’avocat Rodrigue Turgeon, de la Coalition Québec meilleure mine. www.journaldequebec.com/2025/09/18/q...

Last week, thousands flooded the streets in Cuenca, Ecuador to protect water and oppose mining in the páramo de Kimsakocha. Protesters are demanding the Ecuadorian government revoke 🇨🇦 DPM Metals' environmental licence or face further action. Read the blog: miningwatch.ca/blog/2025/9/...

More than 100,000 people marched through Cuenca, a city in southern Ecuador, on Sept. 16, demanding that federal authorities revoke an environmental license for a gold mining project that may impact an important freshwater source.