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Changing public policy and mining practices to ensure the health of individuals, communities, and ecosystems in Canada and around the world. Find us on Bluesky!

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🔴MiningWatch Canada joins 49 signatories worldwide, condemning the attack on the life of Misael Socarrás Ipuana - a Wayúu Indigenous defender of the Arroyo Bruno in La Guajira, Colombia, where Glencore's Cerrejón coal mine operates. londonminingnetwork.org/2025/12/intern…
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During the cleanup, waste abandoned by the Canadian company DPM Metals Inc $DPM.TO were collected at the headwaters of the Irquis and Tarqui rivers. Defending water cannot be treated as a crime. #HandsOffKimsakocha! #KimsakochaNoSeToca!
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🔴All eyes on Kimsakocha! Today, Lauro Sigcha, president of @foazuay93will will appear at the Second Prosecutor's Office for Rapid Solutions in Cuenca after communities and organizations carried out a cleanup minga in the Kimsakocha páramo in September 2025. 🧵
Foa Azuay@foazuay93

❗ El gobierno de @DanielNoboaOK sí quiere explotar Kimsakocha. Las declaraciones del exviceministro Subía lo confirman. Mientras no exista la cancelación definitiva de las concesiones mineras, el proyecto sigue en firme. #kimsakochanosetoca #foa

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3/ The Veladero mine is the site of previous toxic cyanide spills in 2015, 2016 and 2017 - including the largest mining spill in Argentina's history. To this day, no court convictions have been handed down.
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2/ Local residents are pointing fingers at multinational mining companies —specifically Barrick Gold (Canada) and Shandong Gold (China) — while provincial and municipal officials continue to defend the companies’ actions.
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On the Cobre Panama mine audit: "In a letter to the President, Viviana Herrera, a MiningWatch coordinator, argues the audit framework contains major gaps...beginning with the exclusion of more than half of First Quantum’s environmental commitments" mining.com/panama-to-chan…
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🧵🚫Public access to the audit results is not guaranteed.
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✔️Over half of the environmental commitments made by First Quantum have been excluded from the audit ✔️The Ministry of the Environment didn't include imp aspects of their own draft documents or recommendations from civil society & other stakeholders in the final audit scope 🧵
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In support of organizations & civil society in Panama, MiningWatch Canada & four other 4 international orgs have signed onto this letter to the Government of Panama and First Quantum, echoing concerns regarding the audit of the Cobre Panama mine $FM 🧵 ✍️shorturl.at/MbCNp
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On #HumanRightsDefendersDay, Colombian environmental defenders & inter allies are questioning Canadian authorities’ ongoing silence as #Santurbán Committee faces threats related to their activism against Aris Mining's Soto Norte project $ARIS.TO Blog 👉 shorturl.at/O9Jyt 🧵
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We stand in solidarity with the community leaders being criminalized - defending water should not be a crime! Hands off Kimsakocha! Kimsakocha no se toca!
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💧The water defenders being targeted have been involved in legal action against the company, community activities like environmental clean ups, and the massive march for water on September 16th in Cuenca, Ecuador. Many have been resisting mining for over 30 years!
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MiningWatch denounces the criminalization of water defenders by DPM Metals $DPM.TO for cleaning up waste left by the company in the paramo de Kimsakocha!
Foa Azuay@foazuay93

📣 Criminalizan a Yaku Pérez, Lauro Sigcha, Carmen P, Ruth P, Lizardo Zh y Marco T, defensores del agua, la FOA y la junta de agua V del Portete–Tarqui. @DPMEcuador los denuncia por asociación ilícita y daño a bien ajeno tras la minga de limpieza en septiembre de este año.

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"A dos años del fallo de la Corte Suprema de Panamá, que declaró inconstitucional el contrato de la mina Cobre Panamá, el gob panameño anunció que la auditoría solicitada dará resultados pronto y que existe la posibilidad de una reapertura de la mina" ici.radio-canada.ca/rci/es/noticia…
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