Water Justice News
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Dire state of South African democracy and water
January 20, 2014 – 12:16pm In the run up to national elections, the ANC is pumping resources into service delivery. Still many municipalities are so dysfunctional that they are failing to deliver. In an area not far from Johannesburg, known as eGoli or…
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Council/ Blue Planet sign letter against fracking in Europe
January 16, 2014 – 4:04pm The Council of Canadians and the Blue Planet Project have joined with almost 250 other organizations across Europe in an open letter to the president of the European Commission, European Council members, Members of the Europe…
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Water on the political agenda in Delhi
January 13, 2014 – 12:10pm After the results of recently held elections in Delhi, the new Aam Aadmi Party formed the government with the outside support of the Indian National Congress, which had been in power for past 15 years. One of the key issues o…
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Goldcorp mining operations continue to expand
January 12, 2014 – 8:30am The Montreal Gazette reports, “(Vancouver-based) Goldcorp Inc. said it is spending US$570 million this year on its Éléonore mine in Quebec’s James Bay region to get it into initial production of 40,000 to 60,000 ounces in …
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Cameron government introduces new Water Bill
January 7, 2014 – 10:50am The Express & Star reports that the British government of David Cameron has introduced a new Water Bill in the House of Commons. “Tory MP Anne McIntosh said the Government needed to introduce changes so the water companies…
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2014 Winter Olympics violates community’s right to water
January 4, 2014 – 8:42am A quarry near the village of Sochi, Russia that had been used as a source of materials for the construction of venues and luxury hotels for the 2014 Winter Olympics is now a gigantic landfill site for construction waste related…
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20 years of NAFTA, 20 years of resistance
December 28, 2013 – 9:54am The Council of Canadians is supporting a march in Vancouver on January 1 to mark ’20 years of NAFTA, 20 years of resistance’. As narrated in the film ‘A Place Called Chiapas’, “In Mexico City, members of the ruling party wer…
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Deal on water-destructive Kumtor mine to go to Kyrgyz parliament
December 27, 2013 – 9:50am The Kumtor open-pit gold mine is operated by Toronto-based Centerra Gold near Lake Issyk Kul in the northern Tian Shan mountains of the Central Asian country of Kyrgyzstan. Reuters reports, “Centerra Gold Inc said on Tuesday …
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The struggle of the Mapuche in Chile continues
December 27, 2013 – 8:47am Nicolesa Quintreman, a Mapuche Indian leader, has died. The Associated Press reports, “With her sister Berta, Quintreman became a national figure in Chile during protests against the construction of a hydroelectric dam on tri…
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Blue Grabbing in Africa
December 18, 2013 – 1:06pm The wave of land grabs over the last few years has been at a massive scale. These large scale land acquisitions have serious implications for agriculture, ecology, and agrarian change. People are dispossessed and often di…