Mines Ministers Meeting Falls Short of Meaningful Progress on Environment and Indigenous Rights
(Fredericton-Ottawa-Vancouver) Indigenous communities and advocacy groups are disappointed and concerned about the outcomes of Canada’s 2017 Energy & Mines Ministers Conference, which ended last week in St. Andrews, New Brunswick. “None of the 200 pages of documents and 11 priority action points coming out of this conference even include the words ‘Indigenous rights,’ ‘consent,’ ‘mining wastes,’ ‘tailings,’ risks of ‘spills,’ or ‘failures.’ Frankly, this is troubling and disc
Media Advisory: Indigenous Communities, Advocacy Groups at Canadian Energy & Mines Ministers Con
(Fredericton/Ottawa/Vancouver) A delegation of regional and national Indigenous communities and advocacy groups will be attending the annual Canadian Energy & Mines Ministers Conference on August 13-16 in St. Andrew's, New Brunswick. Under the theme ‘No Clean Growth without Clean Mining,’ the groups will urge the Ministers to take meaningful action to protect the environment and communities affected by ever larger volumes of contaminated mining wastes generated by the industr
Three years on, Mount Polley disaster a painful reminder of never-ending horror
First Published in Canadian Dimension Bev Sellers is constantly reminded about the deeply personal, social and cultural loss that she and others in her community of Williams Lake have suffered since the Mount Polley mine disaster in 2014. A few weeks ago, when the former Chief of the Xat’sull First Nation at Soda Creek, British Columbia was forced to evacuate her home because of the raging wildfires, she looked around and wondered what to take. “What could I grab that I could
#SisterStreams Solidarity With Mount Polley Mine Disaster
United for Mining Justice members and friends across Canada participated in ceremonies and gatherings to remember the dam break at Imperial Metals' Mount Polley Mine on August 4, 2014. #SisterStreams #Solidarity #WaterCeremoy #MountPolley #ImperialMetals
BC Government Continues to Play Russian Roulette with Citizens’ Future on 3rd Anniversary of Largest
Three years after Canada’s largest mine waste disaster, communities in the Cariboo-Central Interior of British Columbia learned that the Province will not lay any charges under the BC Environmental Management Act. Instead, residents will have to wait for the Federal government to decide whether to lay charges under the Fisheries Act. In the meantime, the Mount Polley disaster continues to put peoples’ rights at risk. “There has been serious trauma experienced by the communiti
