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Canadian mining companies’ role in pushing for reforms to weaken the country’s Glacier Law must be denounced. In the context of the climate crisis and worsening water scarcity, national legislation that protects precious fresh drinking water should not be weakened but respected.
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Are Canadian Companies Behind Moves to Gut Argentina's Glacier Protection Law?

Civil society and mining-affected communities are urging their legislators to protect water over mining interests.

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We stand in solidarity with the water and land defenders being criminalized in Las Naves, Ecuador, by Canadian mining companies
#VoicesAtRisk

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The Declaration Act is about human rights

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One side unilaterally and hastily deciding what Indigenous rights may or may not mean is just peak settler colonial

Chainsaw to Glaciers and the Periglacial Environment: An illegal and unconstitutional bill that seeks to dismantle the Glacier Law | FARN The amendment to the Glacier Law proposed by the national government is illegal and unconstitutional. It reduces protections for glaciers and the periglacial

Chainsaw to Glaciers and the Periglacial Environment: An illegal and unconstitutional bill that seeks to dismantle the Glacier Law in Argentina to favour the mining sector
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I've explored the ocean's deepest part. Trump wants to destroy it. | Opinion I've been to the Mariana Trench. The choice is clear: Protect one of earth's last frontiers or destroy it before we even understand what we're losing.

Great to hear from one of the few people who has actually been to the deep why we need to protect it

(I think it says a lot for the men who want to send machines down to the seabed that they seem to have no interest in it other than to make money out of it).

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So B.C. just went ahead and approved the problematic Copper Mountain expansion without bothering to address, much less resolve, the Nations' concerns. Not a smart move for either the Province or the company.

Nous embauchons!! MiningWatch et @coalitionqmm.bsky.social cherchent une personne pour coordonner, administrer et développer la Coalition Québec meilleure mine!

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Important work from @transitionsec.bsky.social.
"[T]he ecological devastation and toxic legacies caused by military technologies begins with raw material extraction and persists throughout at every stage of their lifecycle of destruction."
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Similkameen First Nations blast province for ‘unilateral’ approval of mine expansion - Chilliwack Progress The New Ingerbelle Pit at Copper Mountain Mine will extend the site’s life by decades

On the heels of Hudbay Minerals and the B.C. provincial government announcing permit approvals for expanding Copper Mountain Mine, the Similkameen First Nations are blasting the “unilateral” decision.
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Our latest report breaks down how the Save Sangihe Island coalition is building a powerful movement to defend the land and waters that communities depend on.

Read the full report here: miningwatch.ca/2026/2/24/mi...

🌿 On Sangihe Island in Indonesia's North Sulawesi province, a grassroots movement is challenging a Canadian company's gold mining plans.

Postulez pour joindre la belle équipe d'Eau Secours, et contribuer à la protection de l'environnement et de l'eau! 💧

Last chance: Tell your MP to oppose Part 5, Division 5 of Bill C-15!

Your voice matters, and it’s needed now.

Email your MP and the key members of the Standing Committee on Finance to urge them to remove Part 5, Division 5 from Bill C-15.

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Additionally, while international indicators and governance are important, these lessons need to be taken on board by national and sub-national authorities with direct jurisdiction and decision-making powers.

Beyond "perceptions of dispossession” there is indisputable, violent dispossession in the loss of forest/crop/grazing lands, loss of water supplies, and forced relocation, and not just in Ghana.

CHARTS: US copper glut hides refining crunch Benchmark Mineral Intelligence says that refining bottlenecks, not mining output, keep the US reliant on foreign copper processors.

"In fact, if you remove all US overseas mines, the US still is self-sufficient for raw materials [copper]. The problem is that the US doesn’t have the processing capacity ... the US should increase scrap processing before focusing on overseas mine investment."

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Another Nickel Mine Waste Landslide Leads to a Death in Indonesia - Earthworks A landslide of toxic waste at the Indonesia Morowali Industrial Park has reportedly killed one person and halted operations at the site.

Thanks to @earthworks.bsky.social for highlighting another disaster at Indonesia's Morowali Industrial Park, emphasising the rising waste issues from nickel mining and processing there

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We're proud to have signed onto this important message. Accountability matters more now than ever – not less.

Collage style art of black and white factory smokestacks, with colourful flowers coming out of them. Text over the image says "Sunday March 1st 1pm. Mining is not the future. The future is land back. Protest the world's largest mining convention - PDAC-and imagine a world beyond war and extractivism. Simcoe park, across from 255 Front St W, Toronto." At the bottom of the image is the Mining Injustice Solidarity Network logo and a QR code that says "learn more."

The world’s largest mining convention - PDAC- is coming to Toronto again this year, to sell a future of war, environmental destruction and greed.
Join us to imagine a different future!
📅 Sunday March 1st
⏰ 1 pm
📍 Simcoe Park (across from 255 Front St W, Toronto)
More info: linktr.ee/mininginjustice

Take action to tell Premier Doug Ford and the Ontario government to re-empower Ontario's conservation authorities! They are an important tool for local conservation governance and watershed management!

Sign the petition by @ontarionature.bsky.social here: ontarionature.good.do/conservation...

The cost of B.C.’s big mining push | The Narwhal British Columbia is pushing through mining projects as Premier David Eby confirms his desire to make changes to DRIPA and prioritize critical minerals

Premier David Eby wants to fast-track mining projects and amend Indigenous Rights legislation, raising questions about environmental oversight and who benefits from B.C.’s critical minerals agenda. thenarwhal.ca/bc-mining-pu...

Ontario fast-tracks major gold mine despite federal review and Indigenous concerns The Ford government is fast-tracking approvals for one of Canada’s largest proposed gold mines in northwestern Ontario, despite pushback from First Nations over environmental and health concerns that ...

"CELA, acting on behalf of Grassy Narrows, says the proposed Great Bear gold mine could significantly worsen environmental and health conditions for the community, which is already dealing with one of Canada’s worst cases of industrial mercury contamination." www.nationalobserver.com/2026/02/19/n...

MiningWatch joins 80+ civil society leaders from legal, labour, faith, environmental, academic, & arts communities to urge Premier Eby and the BC government to recommit to upholding Indigenous Rights - and to implement DRIPA, not amend it.

Read the full statement: miningwatch.ca/news/2026/2/...

In our latest blog, we write about recent developments at Barrick's Veladero mine in Argentina.

Local communities are still searching for answers after thousands of fish turned up dead in a dam downstream from the mine in early November last year.

Read more here: miningwatch.ca/blog/2026/2/...

Energy Transition Mining Causes Forest Loss, but Land Rights Make a Difference Mining for energy transition minerals drives deforestation at a scale comparable to mining for coal and other minerals, a new study shows.

Mining for energy transition minerals drives deforestation at a scale comparable to mining for coal and other minerals, BUT says a new study, areas that have stronger rights protections end up with lower rates of deforestation. Read more: #deforestation #mining #transitionmining

Charges filed against New Gold, former New Afton manager over missing engineering plans before fatal accident - Kamloops News

Charges filed against New Gold, former New Afton manager over missing engineering plans before fatal accident #Kamloops

Are electric cars really an environmental success story? It is not lost on local communities that the global South is being asked to bear the environmental cost of making batteries for electric cars so that wealthy countries can decarbonize.

We know we must reduce our fossil-fuel use and electric cars are one important way to do that. But we need to face the environmental and human damage caused by the production and disposal of the batteries that make this possible, writes Maude Barlow. www.nationalobserver.com/2026/02/11/o...

Projet de loi 5 | La Coalition QMM s'oppose fermement à l’adoption de ce projet de loi, qui représente un recul anti-démocratique important, et un risque énorme d'engendrer des dommages environnementaux.

Lire le mémoire au complet: quebecmeilleuremine.org/2026/02/11/m...