With assistance from Ecojustice lawyers, Wildlands League takes mining giant De Beers to court over failures to report on methylmercury, a neurotoxin. Continue reading Environmental group takes Ontario diamond mine to court
The groups are urging the BC government and mining companies to commit to better practices and stronger regulations to protect communities from industrial pollution. Continue reading Environmental groups call for cleaner BC mining
Listen to the full Keystone XL pipeline debate on the CBC’s The Current. Keith Stewart is the Climate and Energy … Continue reading Keith Stewart vs. Ron Liepert
MIRARCO and Goodman School of Mines are pleased to offer a short course on: The Fundamentals of Environmental Risk Assessment. A three day course on: the background science and communication of environmetal risks, as well as risk management and environmental rehabilitation. Continue reading The Fundamentals of Environmental Risk Assessment to be held April 9-11, 2014 in Sudbury, Ontario
Environmental groups applaud the New Prosperity Mine rejection as a huge win for human rights and natural ecosystems. Continue reading BC’s New Prosperity Mine rejected again by federal government
Environmental groups applaud the New Prosperity Mine rejection as a huge win for human rights and for natural ecosystems Continue reading BC’s New Prosperity Mine rejected again by federal government
Tla-o-qui-aht First Nation is angered to learn that plans to begin gold mining work in the Tranquil Valley in Clayoquot Sound took a significant step forward last week. Continue reading Clayoquot Sound gold mine proposal moving forward without First Nations approval
Winnipeg – The Wilderness Committee has released a new report designed to educate Manitobans about the impact mining is having on Manitoba’s parks.
The publication documents which parks have mining activity, the risks of all… Read more.. Continue reading Wilderness Committee: new report on mining impacts in Manitoba
As part of Earth Day activities, Saskatchewan Research Council (SRC) is leading an initiative that aims to clean up 38 abandoned, uranium mine and mill sites in northern Saskatchewan. Continue reading Cleaning Saskatchewan’s Abandoned Uranium Mines
As part of Earth Day activities, Saskatchewan Research Council (SRC) is leading an initiative that aims to clean up 38 abandoned, uranium mine and mill sites in northern Saskatchewan. Continue reading Cleaning Saskatchewan’s Abandoned Uranium Mines
Ottawa – Lawyers from Lenczner Slaght LLP and the uOttawa-Ecojustice Environmental Law Clinic went before the Supreme Court of Canada to defend the academic authors and publisher of a book that documented the controversial activities of several high profile Canadian mining companies in Africa. Continue reading Ecojustice defends publisher against lawsuit from Canadian mining companies
Vancouver – The Wilderness Committee strongly condemned Liberal leadership hopeful Christy Clark’s suggestion, reported in a recent Globe and Mail article, that Ottawa should be pressured to approve the so-called Prosperity Mine, located on the Chilcotin Plateau west of Williams Lake, BC. The proposed Taseko Mines Inc. operation would have turned Fish Lake into a tailings pond for mine waste.
Continue reading Wilderness Committee Decries Plans to Develop Prosperity Mine
