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Global Gold Rush Brings Heightened Scrutiny
Posted by Inter Press Service: Fawzia Sheikh on September 16th, 2011
Inter Press Service: Bolstered by gold prices hovering above 1,800 dollars an ounce and a global economy slowly recovering, exploration activity for the precious metal in 2010 once again rebounded. Yet, with this surge comes the attendant scrutiny by activists, investors, and the media into the industry's human rights and environmental records abroad.
For Canada, there is much at stake under the uncomfortable gaze of mining watchdogs. The country accounts for more than 75 percent of the world's mining and exploration...
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Canada: Native Lands Ruling Opens Up New Questions
Posted by Inter Press Service: Fawzia Sheikh on September 6th, 2011
Inter Press Service: dAs Canada's aboriginal community celebrates last month's milestone legal ruling regarding clear-cutting in Ontario and the forestry sector mulls its future strategy, discussions are taking place about how to carry out an impact assessment evaluating damage incurred by decades of industry encroachment on traditional lands and forests.
The Ontario Superior Court of Justice in mid-August ruled that the province, which has offered companies logging and mining rights in the past, cannot infringe on...