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  1. Algonquins vs. Frontenac Ventures
    Against The Current vol. 134
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    I recently returned from a little-publicized “political hotbed” ignited by Frontenac Ventures Corporation (FVC), a private mining company causing grave injustices against the Ardoch First Nation community in Ontario, Canada.
  2. Australian Mining Companies Digging A Deadly Footprint in Africa
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Schilis-Gallego discusses Australian mining companies' involvement in violence and human rights violations in Africa.
  3. Beyond capitalist green economy: In defence of Mother Earth and the commons
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    The Democratic Left Front calls for action against destructive corporate interests that are driving the commercialisation and commodification of the natural environment.
  4. Canadian Environmental Network
    Resource Type: Website
    The Canadian Environmental Network (CEN) facilitates networking between environmental organizations and others who share its mandate - To Protect The Earth And Promote Ecologically Sound Ways Of Life.
  5. Canadian mining firm Pacific Rim and El Salvador's struggle against corporate impunity
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    The controversial legal case that Canadian mining firm Pacific Rim has launched against El Salvador has added fuel to the growing international debate on the balance of corporate rights and responsibilities and the need for new legal international frameworks to address corporate impunity.
  6. Capitalism is failing the planet
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    If we continue with capitalist business as usual, there will be disastrous consequences for humanity. Capitalism is in unavoidable conflict with environmental sustainability because of three key features that are inherent to the system.
  7. The Devil Operation 
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    A tale of corporate espionage unfolds in this exposé of torture, intimidation, and murder of Peruvian eco-activists and indigenous farmers. Shocking video footage, horrifying photos, and meticulous reports compiled by private security firms working for U.S. and British-owned gold mines are co-opted by the filmmakers to reveal the truth.
  8. Ecodefense
    A Field Guide to Monkeywrenching. Second Edition
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1985   Published: 1987
  9. Fatal Extraction
    Australian Mining's Damaging Push Into Africa
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Australian-listed mining companies are linked to hundreds of deaths and alleged injustices which wouldn’t be tolerated in better-regulated nations. The stories are from people across Africa, and are rarely heard outside their communities.
  10. Australian Mining Companies Digging A Deadly Footprint in Africa
    Fatal Extraction: Australian Mining's Damaging Push Into Africa
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    A pattern of links between mining activities and deaths, disfigurement, environmental destruction and displacement suggests a troubling track record for Australian companies seeking wealth from Africa's minerals.
  11. Fighting for Their Water and Their Lives, Communities Take Direct Action Against Barrick Gold in the Dominican Republic
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    People who live near the Pueblo Viejo gold mine iin Dominican Republic struggle to gain accountabilty from the Canadian-owned companies running it. Their environment has been poisoned and they want funds for 600 families to be relocated.
  12. The Hazards of Uranium Mining
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1979
    This leaflet summarizes Britich Columbia opposition to uranium mining.
  13. In Brazil, thousands of people are still living under the threat of bursting mining dams
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    The Brazilian state of Minas Gerais is home to several large dams many of which have burst causing death and environment damage. There is evidence that some of these disasters were predictable.
  14. In China's Inner Mongolia, mining spells misery for traditional herders
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    China's relentless drive for minerals is wreaking havoc on pastoral lifestyles.
  15. Investigation Reveals 'Environmental Ruin' And Workers Rights Abuses
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Broken promises to impoverished communities, serious environmental concerns and poor health and safety records linked to Australian mining companies have all been revealed by Africa’s largest ever collaborative journalistic investigation.
  16. Looting Africa: Canadian Company Eyes Gold in Democratic Republic of Congo
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    A Canadian mining company is prepared to bring hundreds of millions of dollars in gold out of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, one of Africa's most embattled and poorest countries. One expert says that to extract gold, the company will have to cut a deal with a violent African militia.
  17. Mapoon - Book Three
    The Cape York Aluminum Companies (Alcan, Comalco, R.T.Z., Kaiser, C.R.A., Billiton, Pechiney, Tipperary) and the Native Peoples
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1976
    Chronicle of the policies and actions of the Aluminium Companies with respect to the native peoples and their land claims.
  18. The March on Blair Mountain
    A Historic Day in West Virginia
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    The coal industry is an industry which has admitted it can not make a profit without breaking laws.
  19. Mountain Justice 
    Homegrown Resistance to Mountaintop Removal, for the Future of Us All
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2010
    In recent years, local people fighting against Mountaintop Removal's destruction of their homes in West Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Virginia have invited volunteers from outside Appalachia's coalfields to help them bring national attention to this shameful practice, and abolish it. This on-the-ground, insider report of a grassroots effort to end mountaintop removal in Appalachia is a fascinating account of why building solidarity across geographic, age, class, and philosophical lines in such struggles is so important but so hard.
  20. Mountaintop Removal: Environmental And Human Destruction For Profit
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    Coal River Mountain Watch (CRMW) is an initiative "to stop the destruction of our communities and environment by mountaintop removal, to improve the quality of life in our area, and to help rebuild sustainable communities."
  21. The murder of the Mon Valley
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    Only the combined struggle of the international working class can overcome the tyranny of capital and transform the world into a place fit for human beings. This must be our goal. Otherwise the murderer of the Mon Valley may become the murderer of humankind.
  22. OceanaGold vs El Salvador: Foreshadowing 'Trade' Under the TPP? 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    The Central American country of El Salvador could be forced to pay US$301 million to Canadian-Australian mining multinational OceanaGold as the two face off in a World Bank investor-state tribunal with proven tendency to favor corporate interests over arguments for protecting national sovereignty, the environment, and human rights.
  23. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - August 21, 2015
    Canadian federal election, mining and the environment
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2015
    Featuring the Canadian federal election, mining and the environment, failure of Syriza in Greece, refugees, veterans of India's struggle for independence.
  24. 'Our Rivers are Black with Coal' - living with Siberia's mines
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    A look at the aggressive coal mining industry in Siberia where local opposition and human rights are ignored, and indigenous communities and ecosystems are being destroyed.
  25. Rio Tinto's 'sustainable mining' claims exposed
    Rio Tinto uses its sustainability reporting to bolster the argument that it is a responsible company and therefore entitled to a license to
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Global mining giant Rio Tinto markets itself as a 'sustainable company'. But serious failures in its reporting, and its attempt to hold an Australian indigenous group to ransom, reveal a very different truth: the company is driven by a reckless pursuit of profit at any cost.
  26. Salvadorans Warn Canadians about World Bank's Kangaroo Court
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    In anticipation of an imminent ruling from the World Bank's little known investor-state arbitration tribunal that could force El Salvador to pay Canadian mining firm OceanaGold US$301 million, a Salvadoran delegation is in Canada to discuss how this arbitration process threatens democratic decision making, public health and the environment here and beyond.
  27. Water resources - 'The river is dying': the vast ecological cost of Brazil's mining disasters
    Water resources are tapped with often reckless abandon and poor regulation. And it looks set to go on under new president.
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    Brazil's worst mining disaster in decades has prompted calls to create stronger regulations and enforce them with real consequences rather than small fines that often go unpaid.
  28. Where Heaven Meets Hell
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2011
    Drawing strength from their families and their Muslim faith, Indonesian sulfur miners face gruelling labour and treacherous conditions on an active volcano, while struggling to overcome the desperate poverty and illiteracy that plague their community.
  29. Will El Salvador be forced to pay $301 million for valuing clean water over gold?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    The Central American state of El Salvador could be forced to pay US$301 million in damages to an Australian-Canadian mining company, OceanaGold, after the company's application for a mining license was rejected on the basis of the projected environmental damage it would cause.
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