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Archive for the ‘Mining’ Category
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Wives are afraid that their husbands won’t come back home
The government office designed to hold Canadian mining companies accountable for their actions abroad has fallen at the first hurdle to protect the rights of indigenous communities.
In October 2009, the federal government appointed Marketa Evans as the first corporate…
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Can’t do business with the locals – then don’t do business
Imagine the regulatory side of mining as a two-cogged mechanism. One of these cogged gears represents the mining industry, the other the government. These two gears have been turning together for a long time. Now add a third cog representing…
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There’s enough arsenic down there to kill every living thing on the planet
Saying the mining industry started off on the wrong foot in the Northwest Territories is something of an understatement.
The Giant Mine, just outside of Yellowknife, used large quantities of arsenic in the processing of gold ore from the 1930s…
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Overwhelmed, under-resourced and increasingly agitated
The vast 5,120-square-kilometre Ring of Fire in northern Ontario is seen by many as the solution to the province’s sagging economy. Discovered in 2006, the region encapsulates a massive deposit of chromite – a key and rare mineral used in…
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After colonization and residential schools, the question we have to ask ourselves is where do we want to be in the future?
Mining has been prevalent in British Columbia since the discovery of gold along the Fraser River in the 1850s, which sparked a subsequent gold rush. Today the province annually produces and exports large amounts of copper, gold, silver, lead, and…
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Killing the golden goose
We’ve all played the game Risk as kids. We all know that a successful campaign of strategizing, negotiating and battling starts with capturing Australia. Yet in playing this game of conquest, scant attention is paid to how these running skirmishes…