Press Responses: July 10, 2006
Government warned about risk of mining accidents overseas
CTV Power Play Interview on Bill C-300
Interview with Karyn Keenan, Halifax Initiative Program Officer and Gordon Peeling, President of the Mining Associati
"One Step Forward, One Step Back" - May 24, 2006
This analysis of the International Finance Corporation's (IFC) Sustainability Policy, Performance Standards and Disclosure Policy provides a brief overview of each policy and standard, where it goes beyond the previous safeguard policies, where it falls short, and what is missing in terms of addressing the extractives industries.
Letter to Chilean President Lagos Re: Noranda’s investment in Chile and the case of Alumysa - July 14, 2003
July 14, 2003
Letter to Ministers MacKay and Emerson Re: Metallica Resources - April 28, 2006
Friday, April 28, 2006
Press Release - Thursday, June 12, 2003
MEDIA RELEASE
For immediate release
Canada refuses to take responsibility for large dam disasters by ignoring World Commission recommendations
Ottawa, June 12, 2003 - Canada should implement the recommendations of the World Commission on Dams (WCD), rather than continuing to support such environmental and human rights debacles as China's Three Gorges dam and Colombia's Urra dam, argues a new report, released today by the NGO Working Group on the EDC.
Press Responses : Monday, November 16, 1999
Agency under fire over dam
PAUL KNOX
The Globe and Mail, November 16, 1999
The photos look idyllic -- a broad river, forested shorelines, thatch-roofed houses here and there along the bank.
Kimy Pernia Domico, an Embera- Katio Indian from northwestern Colombia, lived in one of the houses. He used to fish, until the fish stopped running. He still plants corn, rice, plantains and manioc.
Press Responses: October 9, 2006
Canadian miners, explorers taken to task by African NGOs
By: Rodrick Mukumbira
Posted: '09-OCT-06 10:00' GMT © Mineweb 1997-2006
WINDHOEK (Mineweb.com) --A call has been made to the Canadian government by African civil society organisations for it to regulate Canadian mining companies operating internationally.
Editorial (Montreal Gazette): November 17, 2006
Canadian mining companies must respect human rights
Moving Beyond Voluntarism - Canada, Mining and CSR - November 21, 2005
Click here for pdf of "Moving Beyond Voluntarism,"