Water Justice News
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CETA could unravel with decisive Syriza win in Greece
January 25, 2015 – 3:00pm The people of Greece celebrate the Syriza win. Today the people of Greece elected a Syriza government. Exit polls show that the party has won between 146 and 158 seats in the 300-member Hellenic parliament (the final electio…
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Kravcík’s Blue Alternative in Slovakia
January 20, 2015 – 5:30pm Photo: Michal Krav?ík Michal Krav?ík is a Slovak hydrologist and environmentalist. He was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 1999 for his work in stopping a large dam on the Torysa River. He argued that the sam…
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Canadian company takes another step towards investor-state challenge against Romania
January 20, 2015 – 3:17pm Gabriel Resources continues to push for their unpopular and highly-destructive Rosia Montana mine in Romania. The Whitehorse-based company announced today they are taking “further steps to initiate positive dialogue with deci…
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Canadian mining company brings environmental harm to northern Greece
January 19, 2015 – 8:20am Twitter photo of the Skouries mine; January 15, 2015. The Council of Canadians and Blue Planet Project have worked with Greek allies to oppose Vancouver-based Eldorado Gold’s Skouries project – an open pit gold mine and pr…
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Greece set to elect government that would veto CETA
January 15, 2015 – 9:57am The Old Royal Palace houses the Greek parliament. Greece will go to the polls in a national election in just ten days. The speculation is that SYRIZA (the Coalition of the Radical Left) will win that election on January 25…
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CETA could mean Galicia pays for unwanted open-pit gold mine
January 13, 2015 – 10:57am A map of the proposed Corcoesto open-pit gold mine in Galicia. Vancouver-based Edgewater Exploration wants to establish its Corcoesto open-pit gold mine in Galicia, an autonomous community in northwest Spain. In October 2…
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Barlow defends the Russian River in California
January 10, 2015 – 8:00am Barlow in still from Russian River documentary. The Russian River is a 177 kilometre river that flows from Mendocino County in northern California southward to not far from the San Francisco Bay’s Golden Gate bridge. A new…
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Blue Planet Project in solidarity with ECCHR challenge against Nestlé
January 6, 2015 – 12:02pm Luciano Romero Blue Planet Project founder Maude Barlow has tweeted: European human rights group lodges complaint on role played by Nestlé in murder of Colombian trade unionist. http://t.co/uGzWgCadzy — Maude Barlow (@…
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Barlow criticizes Ontario pension fund’s global acquisition of private water services
January 6, 2015 – 8:45am Council of Canadians chairperson Maude Barlow has tweeted: Shamefully, Ontario teachers continue to invest in private water schemes abroad. http://t.co/ov7OEoQ365 — Maude Barlow (@MaudeBarlow) January 5, 2015 She cites a Blo…
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Learning from HidroAysén to defeat Site C
December 22, 2014 – 9:49am Patagonia without dams! The people of Chile won a massive environmental victory when the Chilean government announced this past June that it would reject the HidroAysén mega-dam project on the Baker and Pascua rivers in …