
Just outside Jasper National Park, a coal mine threatens an Indigenous community’s water supply
In the Rocky Mountains east of Jasper, a small Indigenous community has been praying that...
Canada is home to some of the world’s largest mining companies and major mining operations. The top five minerals mined in 2016 in Canada were gold, copper, potash, iron ore and coal. Mining contributed greatly to the economic development of Canada over the last century. However in more recent years the high environmental and social impacts of mining has cast the industry in a new light.
While scientific and public understanding of the impacts of mining has changed dramatically in recent years, regulations have been slow to keep pace. In B.C., the government has faced criticisms over its tailings ponds regulations in the wake of the 2014 Mount Polley mining disaster. First Nations have also called for reforms to gold rush-era laws that allow companies to stake claims without free, prior and informed Indigenous consent — one of the principles of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) that B.C. adopted in 2019.
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In the Rocky Mountains east of Jasper, a small Indigenous community has been praying that...
A decade-long battle to build a $1.5 billion gold and copper mine in the traditional...
The company argues the project — twice-rejected at the federal level and opposed by the...
Mining company Westmoreland Coal, which purchased five coal mines in Alberta, is suing Canada for...
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The company has been put on notice regarding the persistent discharge of selenium pollution into...
There are no viable solutions to stop the tide of selenium leaching into Canadian and...
Experts examine subterranean snot, philosophize about how to warn future civilizations away from buried arsenic...
Four years after the Mount Polley mine first spilled contaminated waste into a once-cherished body...
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