Water Justice News: Mining and Dams

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February 11, 2015 – 8:48am

Twitter photo of the Skouries mine, January 15, 2015.
The chief executive officer of Vancouver-based Eldorado Gold will meet with representatives of the Syriza government in Athens today. The Globe and Mail reports, “The …

 

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…

 

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…

 

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…

Learning from HidroAysén to defeat Site C

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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 …

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