Mining Justice Action Committee

Guidance for Governments: Environmental Management and Mining Governance: **Summarizes international practices, highlighting universally applicable standards and practices to develop and implement legal frameworks, regulation, and policy **Identifies important legislative, regulatory, and policy tools and mechanisms **Outlines what governments must do before, during, and after mining.

The degree of drug trafficking and organized crime infiltration into the Honduran and Guatemalan governments and State would be worthy of a Hollywood film, were these regimes not so utterly dependent on and dominated by the US (principally), as well as by Canada and other governments and actors in the international community, and a host of North American companies and investors.

In the wake of a shooting attack, death threats, and fear of further violence against members of the peaceful resistance to Pan American Silver’s Escobal silver mine in Guatemala, nearly 4,000 people are calling on the Vancouver-based company to halt all community activities in the Central American country.

Regime of Obstruction looks at fossil fuel industry power and how we can challenge it. Taking place over the month of June, this free event series is open the public. It features talks, panels, workshops and documentary film screenings by academic and community-based researchers, Indigenous leaders, filmmakers and activists. Join team members from the Corporate Mapping Project, along with featured speakers like Eriel Deranger, Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis, filmmakers Joel Bakan and Jennifer Abbott, and others.

There have been an astounding number of conflicts at Canadian-run mines. Pick almost any country in the Global South, from Papua New Guinea to Ghana, Ecuador to the Philippines, and you will find a Canadian-run mine that has caused environmental devastation or been the scene of violent confrontations.