Mining and Dams
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Blue Planet Project delivers ‘lumps of coal’ to government and corporate offices today
December 10, 2014 – 4:06pm The Blue Planet Project and the Council of Canadians took part in actions in Ottawa and Toronto today – International Human Rights Day – to highlight the verdict of the Permanent People’s Tribunal on Canadian mining in Lat…
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Blue Planet Project opposes the Ilisu Dam on the Tigris River
December 5, 2014 – 3:54pm Photo of Ilisu Dam construction by the Initiative to Keep Hasankeyf Alive, November 2014. The Blue Planet Project is opposed to the Ilisu Dam which would flood the ancient city of Hasankeyf in southeastern Turkey and the s…
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Council of Canadians demands justice for Mariano Abarca on the 5th anniversary of his murder
November 27, 2014 – 9:47am Five years ago today, anti-mining activist Mariano Abarca Roblero was killed in Chiapas in southern Mexico. He had blamed the Calgary-based mining company Blackfire Exploration Ltd. for contaminated local rivers, the loss of…
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The right to water struggle continues in El Salvador
November 13, 2014 – 9:00am Karunananthan and Spronk march with 5,000 people for water justice in San Salvador, March 20, 2014. The Blue Planet Project has supported the call for the right to water to be recognized in El Salvador. Unfortunately, IPS…
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Vancouver company pursues controversial mine in Romania
October 20, 2014 – 3:07pm Photo by MiningWatch Romania. Vancouver-based Eldorado Gold, the company behind the open pit Skouries gold-copper mine set to open next year in the Halkidiki peninsula of northern Greece, is pursuing a destructive mine in …
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Upcoming film screenings on indigenous Wixarika opposition to Vancouver-based mining company
October 2, 2014 – 8:41am In November 2009, Vancouver-based First Majestic Silver Corp. purchased underground mineral rights in the Wirikuta desert, near the town of Real de Catorce in the state of San Luis Potosi in Mexico. But the indigenous Wixarika…
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El Salvador’s struggle for democratic authority
September 29, 2014 – 4:08pm I spent ten days in El Salvador this September representing the Council of Canadians on an international delegation examining metallic mining and how it affects communities. During the trip several events highlighted El Sal…
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Barlow in solidarity with El Salvador at protest against World Bank in Washington, DC
September 15, 2014 – 3:13pm Photo: Barlow speaking at World Bank protest in Washington, DC. Photo from CASJ Coalition tweet. Council of Canadians chairperson Maude Barlow spoke at a protest outside the World Bank in Washington, DC today. As explain…
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Groups demand that Canadian mining company drop suit against El Salvador to start on its independence day
September 10, 2014 For immediate release Toronto – Today, dozens of organizations from Canada, El Salvador and around the world will confront Canadian-Australian mining company Oceana Gold, whose subsidiary is suing El Salvador for $301 million (USD). El Salvador’s offence: refusing to a grant a permit to a gold mine that would contaminate 60 per…
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Open letter to OceanaGold
Jim Askew, Chairman of the Board of Directors Michael Wilkes, Managing Director and CEO We are writing in solidarity with the people of El Salvador demanding that OceanaGold and its subsidiary, Pac Rim Cayman, immediately withdraw their $301 million claim at the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) against El Salvador. The people…