10.02.2026 MiningWatch in the News Energy Transition Mining Causes Forest Loss, but Land Rights Make a Difference Chris Bonasia - The Energy Mix Mining for energy transition minerals drives deforestation at a scale comparable to mining for coal and other minerals, a new study shows. But the severity of impacts is affected by the strength of land ownership rights. Areas that have stronger rights protections end up with lower rates of deforestation, an insight for Canadian provincial...

04.02.2026 Blog Entry Indigenous and campesino communities in Cuenca, Ecuador tell the Canadian embassy: NO Free Trade Agreement between Canada and Ecuador, and NO to Canadian mining This week, the Canadian ambassador to Ecuador, Craig Kowalik, invited the Federation of Indigenous and Peasant Organizations of Azuay (FOA) and other community representatives from the páramo de Kimsakocha for a meeting to gain firsthand knowledge of their local reality, their priorities, and their relationship with Canada. For over 30 years , the FOA and other indigenous and rural communities...

03.02.2026 MiningWatch in the News BC Halts Plans to Make Polluters Pay for Cleanup Costs The province billed its Public Interest Bonding Strategy as a key step to protect the public from massive cleanup bills. Now it’s on hold. by Zoë Yunker B.C. has halted work on a strategy aimed at ensuring taxpayers don’t bear the massive cleanup costs arising from abandoned industrial sites and disasters like the Mount Polley mine breach. The province initiated...

03.02.2026 MiningWatch in the News Ontario government recycles oil sands propaganda for Ring of Fire mining development Ford’s ministers call minerals ‘the most ethical on Earth,’ while passing legislation that suspends treaty rights, species protections, and human rights to benefit extractive industries by Jon Thompson Ontario cabinet members are calling the minerals in the proposed Ring of Fire development “the most ethical resources on Earth.” A December statement attributed the phrase to energy and mines minister Stephen...

02.02.2026 Brief UN Brief: Report on the Violation of the Rights to Indigenous Self-Determination and Democratic Participation of Indigenous Peoples in Canada Due to “Fast-Tracking” Legislation for Major Projects This Shadow Report to the United Nations Human Rights Committee with Respect to the Seventh Periodic Report of Canada was developed by the Environmental Justice and Sustainability Clinic, a public interest legal clinic and experiential education initiative housed at Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto, and co-submitted with MiningWatch Canada and Legal Advocates for Nature's Defence (LAND). Read more

02.02.2026 Brief UN Brief: Canada fails to protect human rights abused by Canadian mining companies operating overseas and fails to provide effective remedy in Canada for those whose rights have been violated by Canadian mining companies operating abroad MiningWatch Canada submission in advance of consideration of the seventh Periodic Review of Canada by the UN Human Rights Committee, 145th session, March 2026 Read more

05.02.2026 Brief Brief: Bill 11 amending various provisions primarily for the purpose of reducing regulatory and administrative burdens This brief, prepared jointly by the Coalition Québec meilleure mine, MiningWatch Canada and Eau Secours, provides a critical analysis of Québec's "Bill 11 amending various provisions primarily for the purpose of reducing regulatory and administrative burdens." Read more