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| CEDHA Files Equator Principles Due Diligence Review to US EXIM Bank and EDC of Canada on Barrick�s Pascua Lama Project CEDHA November 25th, 2011 The Center for Human Rights and Environment (CEDHA), along with several local and international groups presented today an Equator Principles Due Diligence Review to two export credit agencies considering financing Barrick Gold�s highly controversial Pascua Lama gold project, straddling the border between Chile and Argentina. |
| The Burden of Reko Diq The International News (Pakistan) November 5th, 2011 In September the Balochistan government raised 10 basic objections, accusing the TCC of violating laws and of not disclosing all the facts and data that it gathered during the exploration phase. The TCC was accused of providing a feasibility study for only a small part of the Reko Diq mines, said to be among the top three largest gold and copper deposits in the world. After a year of fighting the case, it seems that the TCC, or its parent company Barrick Gold, the largest gold mining company in the world, has given up its court battle inside Pakistan and is running to an international court of arbitration. |
| Code of Silence: An academic book, a multimillion-dollar lawsuit, and a question: is Canadian law failing free speech? by CANDICE VALLANTIN, The Walrus Magazine October 27th, 2011 In 2008, Les �ditions �cosoci�t�, a tiny Montreal publishing house, released a 348-page treatise on human rights and environmental violations by Canadian mining companies overseas. Noir Canada: Pillage, corruption, et criminalit� en Afrique (Black Canada: Plundering, Corruption, and Crime in Africa) presents evidence for Barrick Gold�s alleged complicity in the deaths of fifty-two miners in Tanzania, and for Banro Corporation�s fueling of violent conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The book, based on previously published accounts from the international press and UN reports, was intended as a study, not a bestseller. �We were expecting to sell 700 copies at $34 each,� says Elodie Comtois, �cosoci�t�s head of communications. Immediately after the book�s launch, Barrick Gold sued �cosoci�t� and the three authors � Alain Deneault, Delphine Abadie, and William Sacher � for a cool $5 million in damages to its reputation and $1 million for malicious intent. Banro followed suit six weeks later, citing $5 million for libel (both companies claim the allegations are false). Significantly, as this goes to press, at least one of the trials is under way in Quebec. |
| End of the Barrick Gold Lawsuit: �cosoci�t� Settles Out of Court http://www.freespeechatrisk.ca October 20th, 2011 At the conclusion of a judicial struggle that has lasted three and a half years, �ditions �cosoci�t� has arrived at an out-of-court agreement with the multinational Barrick Gold. In order to put an end to the proceedings that Barrick Gold instituted against it in April 2008 for the sum of 6 million dollars, and for this reason only, �ditions �cosoci�t� is ceasing the publication of the book Noir Canada and made a payment to Barrick through their insurer. |
| Once again a SLAPP against Noir Canada! by Dominique Caouette, Catherine Dorion, Louis Dumont, Francis Dupuis-D�ri, Jean-Marc Larouche, Lucie Lemonde, Normand Mousseau, Christian Nadeau, Pierre Noreau, Marcelo Otero, �ric Pineault, Michel Seymour, Sid Ahmed Soussi, Pierre Trudel et Daniel Turp, Free Speech at Risk After three years of lobbying by the mining company Barrick Gold against the authors of Noir Canada and the publisher �cosoci�t�, and pending a trial that was the culmination of a SLAPP, Barrick Gold has signed an out of court settlement with the authors and the publisher. |
| Tribe battles BLM over Nev. gold mine in US court by SCOTT SONNER, Business Week October 7th, 2011 Lawyers for environmentalists and several Nevada tribes urged a federal judge Thursday to keep in place restrictions from a 2009 court order that blocks the expansion of a gold mine at the base of a mountain that some Western Shoshone consider sacred. |
| UPDATE 1-Baluchistan objects to Antofagasta/Barrick venture by Zeeshan Haider, Reuters September 22nd, 2011 Pakistan's Baluchistan province has objected to a mining lease being sought by a joint venture between Antofagasta and Barrick Gold , further delaying a major planned copper and gold project in the country's southwest. |
| Pay Dirt? by Michelle Slater, Castlemaine Independent July 27th, 2011 Can gold ever be ethical? |
| North Mara investors risk being kicked out by FLORIAN KAIJAGE, the Guardian (Tanzania) June 19th, 2011 Tarime District residents have threatened to halt mining gold operations at North Mara, Nyamongo area, if the mine proprietors, African Barrick Gold, continue dishonouring an agreement with communities in the mine�s neighbourhoods. |
| Barrick Accused by Governor�s Brother of Mingling in Argentine Election Politics Center for Human Rights and Environment (CEDHA) May 4, 2011 � In a highly unusual interview[1] with a national radio station, the brother and would be gubernatorial candidate of the incumbent Governor of San Juan Province attacked his brother (Governor Jos� Luis Gioja) and Barrick Gold of maintaining a lucrative and economically abusive relationship for the province. It seems Barrick�s profits are causing a stir in local politics that has miners and ruling family members at odds with one another. |
| Tanzanians Killed at Barrick�s North Mara Mine Not Forgotten Munk OUT of UofT campaign Approximately 70 people gathered today at a commemoration held for the seven individuals killed in Tanzania at African Barrick Gold�s North Mara Mine. Public outcry over this violence has been amplified by recent reports that local security/police forces employed by the mine have attempted to ban a memorial ceremony for the deceased. To the horror of many local families, these security forces also stole 5 of the 7 peoples� bodies from the mortuary. |
| Barrick Threatens Legal Action Against NGO � Over Publication of Contamination of Gold Mining Projects in Argentina May 16th 2011 � Argentina. Barrick Gold threatened to file legal actions against the Center for Human Rights and Environment (CEDHA), for publishing a report that uses Barrick�s own water monitoring data and concludes that the Veladero and Pascua Lama projects are contaminating San Juan�s rivers and streams. |
| Gold mine saga sign of things to come by Mobhare Matinyi, The Citizen - TANZANIA June 2nd, 2011 Once again, Tanzanians are mourning the deaths of five of their fellow citizens shot dead by police on May 16, at the African Barrick Gold�s North Mara gold mine in Tarime District, Mara Region. |
| Claims of sexual abuses in Tanzania blow to Barrick Gold by Geoffrey York, The Globe and Mail May 30th, 2011 Just two weeks after the fatal shooting of seven people at one of its Tanzanian gold mines, Barrick Gold Corp. is investigating allegations of sexual assault by about a dozen police and security guards at the same violence-plagued mine. |
| Toronto Star reporter arrested, deported for investigating North Mara murders by Jocelyn Edwards, The Star.com: CANADIAN PRESS May 28th, 2011 Engaging in journalism activities without permission: Journalist, Jocelyn Edwards' account of being arrested and detained in Tanzania trying to investigate recent killings at Barrick Gold's North Mara mine. |
| TANZANIA: Lissu, six others in court IPP Media: GUARDIAN May 25th, 2011 Singida East Member of Parliament Tundu Lissu and six other people yesterday appeared before a Tarime District court magistrate to answer charges of illegal entry into a mortuary and holding an unlawful meeting. |
| Tanzanian lawmakers arrested at funeral Agence France Presse May 25th, 2011 Tanzanian police said Wednesday they had arrested two lawmakers from the main opposition party Chadema while they attended the funeral of the villagers killed in clashes at a gold mine. |
| Tarime killings: The inside story by George Marato, the Guardian (Tanzania) May 22nd, 2011 Breach of trust within the unholy trinity comprising the police, company staff and youngsters pinning their livelihood on proceeds from the sale of gold concentrates, has emerged as the source of the high tension between North Mara Gold Mine and the neighbouring Nyamongo locality. |
| Controlling the damage to gold mining�s gritty image by Lisa Wright, The Star May 21st, 2011 Two words instantly come to mind in cynical business circles when a tragedy occurs under a big company�s watch: damage control. |
 | Black eye for Barrick taints Canada, critic says by Lisa Wright, Business reporter, The Star May 19th, 2011 Barrick Gold Corp. has tainted Canada�s international mining image, say industry observers, as police and company officials investigate why seven people were killed at the gold giant�s troubled Tanzanian mine. |
