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Environmental opposition to the Ring of Fire is growing Toronto environmental law group joins voices calling for protection of Far North wetlands Feb 25, 2021 2:30 PM By: Northern Ontario Business Staff (Canadian Environmental Law Association photo) A Toronto-based legal group is throwing its support behind the opposition to development in the Ring of Fire mineral belt.  The Canadian Environmental Law Association (CELA), whose clients are the Friends of the Attawapiskat River, is calling for an immediate moratorium on all mineral exploration and all mine-relate...

Neither likes the new federal Impact Assessment Act, which Alberta is challenging in court. Tyee contributing editor Andrew Nikiforuk is an award-winning journalist whose books and articles focus on epidemics, the energy industry, nature and more. SHARES Jason Kenney’s government argues in the Alberta Court of Appeal that the federal Impact Assessment Act shouldn’t apply to coal mining in the province. Former Green leader Elizabeth May assails the act for different reasons. Photos via the Green party and the Alberta government. All this week, the Alberta gover...

The watchdog office formed to review claims of alleged human rights abuses by Canadian companies operating abroad in the mining, oil and gas, and garment sectors will launch its complaints mechanism in “early 2021.” Photo by Tom Fisk / Pexels The office announced by the federal government in 2018 to handle complaints of human rights abuses perpetrated by Canadian companies operating overseas still doesn’t have a complaints mechanism in place. The Canada Ombudsperson for Responsible Enterprise (CORE) was intended to be a government watchdog that could investigate companies in the oil an...

Chile's Pascua-Lama Mine Legally Shut Down, but Mining Exploration Continues Straddling the border of northern Chile and Argentina, with operations in both countries,  the Pascua-Lama copper and gold mine project sits in a rust-colored area of the Huasco Valley in the Andes. The extraction of gold and copper on the amphitheater-like tiers of this open-pit mine has the potential to damage glaciers and pollute and over-extract waterways that have been used by local populations for millennia. After more than two decades of legal challenges and public protests, Chile’s First Environmental Cour...

Environmental democracy in Ecuador promotes anti-mining agenda by Vincent Ricci on 9 November 2020 A court ruling in Ecuador allowing a community referendum on proposed mining projects could embolden communities across the country mounting similar opposition to mines. The ruling in favor of Cuenca, the capital of Azuay province and the third-largest city in Ecuador, was prompted by concerns over two gold mines, although those operations will not be affected by the outcome of the referendum. City officials want to delay the referendum to February because of the cost, but activists are pushing...