Mining

Across the Philippines, people held rallies, made YouTube videos, and organized petitions demanding justice for Dr. Gerry Ortega and the fulfillment of his dream – Never Mine Palawan. Now they are looking for international support to preserve this beautiful island’s environment.

by Joe Foy

Staring through the blur of tree trunks that lined the road as we bumped along in our van, I could see a massive sevenstorey high chunk of limestone rising from a rice field. 

I was on the island of Palawan in the Philippines, on a trip this past January to reconnect with family and to learn a little more about the nation where my wife was born.  

Up ahead, we turned off the road onto a side track that a wooden sign identified as the way to Ugong Rock.

Clearwater, BC residents seem prepared to trade off an increased cancer rate for a few more jobs provided by the Harper Pit Mine. Unlike the demonstrations that were held in the 1960's, opposition proves small in their current times of economic slump.

by Thaddeus Latarte

Five years ago, it would have been difficult to imagine an open pit mine being welcomed by the people of Clearwater, BC. In 2006, the resi­dents of Clearwater

by Dan Lewis 

Clayoquot Sound – traditional territory of the Nuu Chah Nulth first nations – is world-renowned for its intact valleys of ancient rainforest, home to monumental cedars, wild salmon, wolves, bears, and whales. 

It is also the site of many firsts in Canadian history,

A Personal Account of a Five-Day Walk to Stop the Mega-Quarry.

by Zach Ruiter 

Sidewalks peeled away into gravel streams between road and farmland as we journeyed for five

by Ruth J. Madsen 

The second week of June in Kamloops BC, the residents were shocked to hear about a new open-pit copper mine proposed just outside of town. The local paper advertised an open house being held at a local hotel by Abacus Mining Corp. and the provincial and federal environmental assessment offices. People did a little research, and 467 people from all walks of life came to hear about this proposed project. 

The ranchers had been contacted earlier and came with many concerns. They made the rest of us aware that at least five ranches would no longer be viable if this mine went ahead.

by Delores Broten

After decades of monitoring by the Campbell River Environmental Council, the Quinsam watershed at the edge of Strathcona Park on Vancouver Island has finally received some of the scientific scrutiny it deserves, and, apparently, requires. An assessment of arsenic levels in lake sediment around the Quinsam coal mine has been initiated by the Canadian Water Network.

A new coal mine is proposed for Vancouver Island while questions multiply.

by Arthur Caldicott 

Ten years ago Beanstalk Capital Corp. was a new company with noth­ing more than a listing on the TSE Ventures Exchange.

by Sarah Katharine Cox

Fifty kilometres south of Fernie British Columbia, in the Flathead River Valley, is a mountain ridge that has no name. A fall photograph shows a sprinkling of snow on wavy peaks, slopes covered in Alpine Fir and yel­low Larch, and a lush valley bottom below.

by David Williams 

In 2002 the federal government, in virtual lockstep with the Bush regime, created a special exemption to federal environmental rules that would turn many of Canada’s lakes into toxic waste dumps for mines. At least sixteen lakes across the country are slated to become repositories for waste rock laced with heavy metals like arsenic