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�Please tell people about this:� London students� horror at Dominican Republic mines by Mark Spowart, Metro October 27th, 2014 Three London students were shocked by what they found last winter during a trip to the Dominican Republic. Canadian mining companies, they say, are destroying lives in the country. |
Baloch CM deputy 'arrested' in Barrick, Antofagasta case; fate unknown by Ahmar Mustikhan, The Examiner October 7th, 2014 Fate of a top aide of Balochistan Chief Minister Dr Abdul Malik Baloch is still unclear, Balochistan political and journalist sources reached by phone said Tuesday. Ghulam Shah Dashti, was abducted from Dast-i-Kuddaan by the Baloch Sarmachars or freedom fighters in an attempt to ask Barrick Gold Corporation and Antofagasta of Chile to stay away from Balochistan. |
Barrick Gold refuses to relocate villagers who suffer murder, rape and house burning by Karl Nerenberg, Rabble.ca September 12th, 2014 On Wednesday of this past week, a representative of thousands of people who live in the highlands of Papua New Guinea together with Canadian supporters came to Parliament Hill to tell Canadians about the highlanders' troubled relationship with Barrick Gold. |
Increased Violence at Barrick�s Porgera Mine: Indigenous Ipili send Envoy from Papua New Guinea to Canada Mining Watch September 11th, 2014 Barrick Gold�s Porgera Joint Venture Mine in Papua New Guinea (PNG) has long been associated with extreme violence against local men and women by mine security and state police associated with the mine. The level of human rights abuses at the mine has spiked again this year. In April, combined state police and army units were once again �called out� to Porgera by the PNG government to deal with Barrick�s ongoing inability to stop local people displaced by the mine from entering the pit and the mine�s massive uncontained waste flows in a desperate attempt to eke out a living from residual gold. |
Ten Killed At African Barrick Operations in Tanzania by Richard Smallteacher, CorpWatch Blog As many as 10 people have been killed by police this year at African Barrick Gold's operations in Tanzania, according to a new report from two NGOs - MiningWatch Canada and Rights and Accountability in Development (RAID) in the UK. |
Killings at UK-owned Tanzanian gold mine alarm MPs by Tracy McVeigh, The Observer July 19th, 2014 Killings at a British-owned gold mine in east Africa have alarmed a group of MPs, lawyers and human rights campaigners, who have called on the British government to intervene. |
Porgera Burns: 200 houses razed, expat attacked in retaliation over raid on local miners by Johnny Poiya, Post Courier (PNG) (via PNG Mine Watch) June 9th, 2014 MORE than 200 houses were burnt to the ground in Porgera by security personnel in the call-out operation during an early morning raid on Friday. |
Barrick Gold Faces Demonstration Against Human Rights, Environmental Abuses at Toronto AGM by Tim McSorley, DeSmog Barrick Gold's shareholders will be greeted by a familiar sight in Toronto this morning: protesters are once again gathering outside the Annual General Meeting of the world's largest gold mining company to denouce the corporation's human rights and environmental abuses. |
CEDHA offers expert testimony against Barrick Gold in Chilean Tribunals CEDHA April 27th, 2014 On the one year anniversary of the suspension of Pascua Lama due to impacts to glaciers and other water resources, Jorge Daniel Taillant, Director of the Center for Human Rights and Environment (in Argentina) spoke for two hours today before Chile�s Environmental Tribunal to answer questions regarding reports CEDHA has produced to draw attention to Barrick Gold�s Pascua Lama project impacts to hitherto ignored but extremely relevant swaths of land called Periglacial Environments. These frozen hydrological resources help glaciated areas store and regulate water flow to downstream water basins for millions of people. |
Hearing in Grants, NM to review Barrick's Homestake site, where contamination has spread in recent years Multicultural Alliance for a Safe Environment (MASE) April 25th, 2014 The New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) is set to renew the Homestake Mining Company�s Discharge Permit, DP-200, with some modifications that would allow Homestake to nearly double its use of the public's water supply to dilute contaminants at its Superfund site. |
Behind Barrick's meltdown in the Atacama desert by STEPHANIE NOLEN, Globe and Mail April 24th, 2014 In Chile today, you could spend a very long time trying to find anyone with a good word to say about Pascua-Lama. |
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The Killing Continues at a Canadian-Owned Mine In Tanzania by Chris Oke, Vice April 19th, 2014 In the past three years, 69 people have been killed by police at the North Mara Gold Mine, according to Wilson Mangure, a local ward councillor who has been tracking the incidents. In that same period, hundreds more have been severely injured. And the violence continues. In the first month of 2014 alone, four more people were killed, he said. |
Barrick Gold Using Coercive Settlement Provisions to Perpetuate Legacy of Environmental Harm by Michelle Harrison, Earth Rights International March 31st, 2014 After nearly a decade of litigation over environmental devastation in the Philippines caused by Placer Dome�s mining operations (now Barrick Gold Corp.), Barrick has reportedly given the Province of Marinduque a take-it-or-leave-it settlement offer that would prohibit the Province from spending a penny to clean up the damage the company left behind. |
Marinduque solons oppose $20-M Barrick Gold settlement Business Mirror (Philippines) February 22nd, 2014 TWO lawmakers have opposed a $20-million compensation offer being dangled by a mining company in connection with the 1996 Marcopper mine tailing spill, considered the worst mining disaster in the Philippines. �This will not also address the repair of the Maguila-guila and Makulapnit siltation dams and Taipan pit. The said dams are in danger of collapse due to its considerably weakened walls and the big volume of water and silt contained therein. Its collapse will unleash a huge quantity of water and silt to the towns of Boac, Mogpog and possibly other towns in Marinduque which will result to loss of a great number of lives and millions of pesos in damage to homes and properties." |
"Illegal miners" hit Porgera The National (PNG) February 6th, 2014 A briefing from Barrick disclosed the following: An average of 396 illegal miners are trespassing on the special mining lease (SML) per day; An average of 14 confrontations occurred per day between company security men and illegal miners; About 170 injuries that were directly attributed to the activities of Illegal Miners at PJV were reported; |
Tanzania's gold rush and housing crush by Victoria Schneider, Al Jazeera Mayenda says the Buzwagi Gold Mine is the reason the buildings collapsed, and she is not alone. Other villagers say their mud houses crack and collapse because of blasting at the open pit - Tanzania's largest. They say their children's coughs come from the dust blown over the village, and the water from the local wells is polluted from mine waste. |
One dead in clash at Tanzania gold mine Agence France Presse January 18th, 2014 One person was killed in clashes between police and thousands of villagers who stormed a gold mine in Tanzania operated by a subsidiary of Canadian mining giant Barrick Gold, police said on Saturday. |
African Barrick to compensate assault victims by Geoffrey York, Globe and Mail December 19th, 2013 A Canadian-owned gold company says it is giving cash payments and other compensation to 14 women who were sexually assaulted by police and security guards at its controversial North Mara gold mine in Tanzania. The case began when about 10 women alleged that they were arrested at the North Mara mine site and sexually assaulted by company security guards or Tanzanian police. The incidents occurred over a period of several years before their public disclosure in a company statement in May, 2011. The women told the investigators that they were taken to holding cells and threatened with imprisonment if they refused to have sex with the police or guards. |
Ex-UofT President David Naylor gets named to Barrick Board of Directors Munk OUT of UofT December 8th, 2013 If there was ever any doubt that the Munk School's creation was marked by corruption and secrecy, this revelation should confirm our long-standing suspicions. This week, Barrick announced that it would be adding ex-University of Toronto President, David Naylor, to the companies list of "independent" directors. This appointment comes just four years after Naylor signed the controversial "Munk Contract" in secret, by-passing even the school's governing council. |