
United Church Pension Board: Reconsider your decision and divest from Goldcorp
44 Hucknall Road Toronto, ON M3J 1V8 September 27, 2017 To: The UCC General Council Executive for its November 2017 meeting From: The United for Mining Justice Network Dear friends: The United for Mining Justice Network was established as a United Church advocacy network at a national gathering in 2013. The Network held a national meeting at the Sandy-Saulteaux Centre May 5 to 7, 2017. The gathering included United Church members and ecumenical and indigenous friends of the N
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