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- Australian Mining Companies Digging A Deadly Footprint in Africa
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Schilis-Gallego discusses Australian mining companies' involvement in violence and human rights violations in Africa.
- Beyond capitalist green economy: In defence of Mother Earth and the commons
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
The Democratic Left Front calls for action against destructive corporate interests that are driving the commercialisation and commodification of the natural environment.
- Canadian mining firm Pacific Rim and El Salvador's struggle against corporate impunity
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
The controversial legal case that Canadian mining firm Pacific Rim has launched against El Salvador has added fuel to the growing international debate on the balance of corporate rights and responsibilities and the need for new legal international frameworks to address corporate impunity.
- Capitalism is failing the planet
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
If we continue with capitalist business as usual, there will be disastrous consequences for humanity. Capitalism is in unavoidable conflict with environmental sustainability because of three key features that are inherent to the system.
- The Devil Operation
Resource Type: Film/Video
A tale of corporate espionage unfolds in this exposé of torture, intimidation, and murder of Peruvian eco-activists and indigenous farmers. Shocking video footage, horrifying photos, and meticulous reports compiled by private security firms working for U.S. and British-owned gold mines are co-opted by the filmmakers to reveal the truth.
- Ecodefense
A Field Guide to Monkeywrenching. Second Edition
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1987
- Emergency Rally at TSX today - Imperial Metals Mount Polley Tailings Spill
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
In response to the devastating Mount Polley Imperial Metals tailings spill in the Secwepemc Territory in BC earlier this week, Secwepemc Women Warrior Society Member Kanahus Manuel and allies are gathering at the Toronto Stock Exchange to voice
- Fatal Extraction
Australian Mining's Damaging Push Into Africa
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Australian-listed mining companies are linked to hundreds of deaths and alleged injustices which wouldn’t be tolerated in better-regulated nations. The stories are from people across Africa, and are rarely heard outside their communities.
- Australian Mining Companies Digging A Deadly Footprint in Africa
Fatal Extraction: Australian Mining's Damaging Push Into Africa
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
A pattern of links between mining activities and deaths, disfigurement, environmental destruction and displacement suggests a troubling track record for Australian companies seeking wealth from Africa's minerals.
- Fighting for Their Water and Their Lives, Communities Take Direct Action Against Barrick Gold in the Dominican Republic
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
People who live near the Pueblo Viejo gold mine iin Dominican Republic struggle to gain accountabilty from the Canadian-owned companies running it. Their environment has been poisoned and they want funds for 600 families to be relocated.
- The Hazards of Uranium Mining
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1979
This leaflet summarizes Britich Columbia opposition to uranium mining.
- In Brazil, thousands of people are still living under the threat of bursting mining dams
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2019
The Brazilian state of Minas Gerais is home to several large dams many of which have burst causing death and environment damage. There is evidence that some of these disasters were predictable.
- In China's Inner Mongolia, mining spells misery for traditional herders
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
China's relentless drive for minerals is wreaking havoc on pastoral lifestyles.
- Investigation Reveals 'Environmental Ruin' And Workers Rights Abuses
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Broken promises to impoverished communities, serious environmental concerns and poor health and safety records linked to Australian mining companies have all been revealed by Africa’s largest ever collaborative journalistic investigation.
- Looting Africa: Canadian Company Eyes Gold in Democratic Republic of Congo
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
A Canadian mining company is prepared to bring hundreds of millions of dollars in gold out of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, one of Africa's most embattled and poorest countries. One expert says that to extract gold, the company will have to cut a deal with a violent African militia.
- Mapoon - Book Three
The Cape York Aluminum Companies (Alcan, Comalco, R.T.Z., Kaiser, C.R.A., Billiton, Pechiney, Tipperary) and the Native Peoples
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1976
Chronicle of the policies and actions of the Aluminium Companies with respect to the native peoples and their land claims.
- MiningWatch Canada
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- OceanaGold vs El Salvador: Foreshadowing 'Trade' Under the TPP?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The Central American country of El Salvador could be forced to pay US$301 million to Canadian-Australian mining multinational OceanaGold as the two face off in a World Bank investor-state tribunal with proven tendency to favor corporate interests over arguments for protecting national sovereignty, the environment, and human rights.
- On the hunt for illegal miners as a new gold rush hits New Zealand
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
A look at the black market in gold in New Zealand and the efforts to thwart opportunists who sneak onto private farm land and national parks without permits to mine illegally.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - August 21, 2015
Canadian federal election, mining and the environment
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2015
Featuring the Canadian federal election, mining and the environment, failure of Syriza in Greece, refugees, veterans of India's struggle for independence.
- 'Our Rivers are Black with Coal' - living with Siberia's mines
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
A look at the aggressive coal mining industry in Siberia where local opposition and human rights are ignored, and indigenous communities and ecosystems are being destroyed.
- Rio Tinto's 'sustainable mining' claims exposed
Rio Tinto uses its sustainability reporting to bolster the argument that it is a responsible company and therefore entitled to a license to
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Global mining giant Rio Tinto markets itself as a 'sustainable company'. But serious failures in its reporting, and its attempt to hold an Australian indigenous group to ransom, reveal a very different truth: the company is driven by a reckless pursuit of profit at any cost.
- Royal BC Museum
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Salvadorans Warn Canadians about World Bank's Kangaroo Court
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
In anticipation of an imminent ruling from the World Bank's little known investor-state arbitration tribunal that could force El Salvador to pay Canadian mining firm OceanaGold US$301 million, a Salvadoran delegation is in Canada to discuss how this arbitration process threatens democratic decision making, public health and the environment here and beyond.
- Water resources - 'The river is dying': the vast ecological cost of Brazil's mining disasters
Water resources are tapped with often reckless abandon and poor regulation. And it looks set to go on under new president.
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2019
Brazil's worst mining disaster in decades has prompted calls to create stronger regulations and enforce them with real consequences rather than small fines that often go unpaid.
- Where Heaven Meets Hell
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2011
Drawing strength from their families and their Muslim faith, Indonesian sulfur miners face gruelling labour and treacherous conditions on an active volcano, while struggling to overcome the desperate poverty and illiteracy that plague their community.
- Will El Salvador be forced to pay $301 million for valuing clean water over gold?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The Central American state of El Salvador could be forced to pay US$301 million in damages to an Australian-Canadian mining company, OceanaGold, after the company's application for a mining license was rejected on the basis of the projected environmental damage it would cause.
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