Canadian mining companies still global leaders in environmental devastation and Indigenous land theft

 

As much as 75 per cent of the world’s mining companies are headquartered in Canada — companies that frequently come under fire for violating human rights, ignoring Indigenous sovereignty, and seriously damaging the environment.

These companies have extraction operations on every continent, including Asia, the Americas, and Africa, and many projects are operating against the expressed wishes of the local Indigenous communities.

Many of those Canadian mining executives will be in Toronto this week at the world’s biggest mining conference, the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada Convention 2022, June 13 to 15.

Mining watchdog groups are already calling it a "greenwashing” campaign. Many have been demonstrating in the streets outside.

“Mining doesn’t allow for a healthy future on this planet, and Pan American Silver’s proposed plans for Navidad project in Argentina will further exacerbate environmental degradation in the region”

MiningWatch Canada and Mining Injustice Solidarity Network have denounced the convention as a ludicrous attempt to distract from their colonial and capitalist destructive business — a business model that scientists say is also no longer justifiable in a climate emergency.  (more...)

Canadian mining companies still global leaders in environmental devastation and Indigenous land theft