The media outlet quotes
a Canadian mining company's CEO as saying, «I've had different Chinese groups show up at my office saying, «Hey, we want to get 50,000 machines out of China.»
A Toronto law firm is pushing for lawsuits against
Canadian mining company HudBay Minerals Inc. regarding alleged human rights abuses to continue despite the fact the company no longer owns the project where the alleged killing of one man and gang rape of 11 women occurred.
The judge ruled the case of Guatemalan workers, who allege rape and murder on a property owned by
a Canadian mining company's subsidiary, can be heard in Ontario.
Earlier today Marcia Ramírez spoke at Huron College (at the University of Western Ontario) about her pending suit against Copper Mesa Mining Corp.,
a Canadian mining company operating in her home in Ecuador.
Gold Reserve, 2015 We achieved a major victory for
Canadian mining company Gold Reserve in a long - running ICSID arbitration against Venezuela relating to one of the world's largest undeveloped gold / copper deposits.
Those cases included a $ 2.5 billion dispute in which
the Canadian mining company Gold Reserve is claiming that Venezuela seized its mining properties.
Representing the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in an arbitration under the ICSID Additional Facility, based on a claim of more than US$ 1 billion brought by
a Canadian mining company under the bilateral investment treaty between Canada and Venezuela, in a proceeding conducted in Spanish and English.
A US court has confirmed a US$ 1.3 billion ICSID additional facility award in favour of
Canadian mining company Rusoro against Venezuela, rejecting arguments that the arbitrators exceeded their authority in calculating damages or that enforcement should be stayed pending a challenge to the award in France.
Members of the indigenous Mayan Q'eqchi» population from El Estor, Guatemala are pursuing three related precedent - setting lawsuits in Canadian courts against
Canadian mining company HudBay Minerals over human rights abuses at HudBay's former Fenix mining project in Guatemala.
By once again leaving those concerns to the side the Action Plan instead reinforces growing reticence and opposition in many communities, where there is little or no confidence that when
a Canadian mining company shows up it will be of sustainable local benefit.
Klippenstein represents 13 members of the indigenous Mayan Q'eqchi population from El Estor, Guatemala, who have filed three related lawsuits in Ontario courts against
Canadian mining company HudBay Minerals over the brutal killing of Adolfo Ich and the gang - rape of 11 women from Lote Ocho.
Venezuela owned a minority share of MINCA and objected when MINCA suspended without government approval its work on the mine for more than a year and when then - majority owner Placer Dome, a major
Canadian mining company, sold its interest in MINCA for $ 50 to Vannessa, a junior mining company without significant experience in mining.
A Foley Hoag LLP legal team has turned aside a billion - dollar claim against Venezuela by Vannessa Ventures,
a Canadian mining company that alleged Venezuela violated its investment treaty with Canada by, among other actions, refusing to approve Vannessa's 2001 purchase of Venezuelan mining company MINCA and rescinding Venezuela's contract with MINCA for the development of a gold and copper mine in Venezuela.
According to press agency Reuters Chinese state - owned company Sinochem just dropped its bid for the PotashCorp, the big
Canadian mining company and largest producer of potash in the world.
Filmed over the course of nearly six years, Marmato chronicles how townspeople confront
a Canadian mining company that wants the $ 20 billion in gold beneath their homes.
Synopsis: The residents of a town in Colombia spend six years fighting
a Canadian mining company's plan to mine gold under their homes.
On the heels of its newly released prefeasibility report,
a Canadian mining company gets the green light on fast production on its fully permitted and built Arizona gold mine.
Venezuela has stopped making payments on more than $ 1 billion it owes to
a Canadian mining company, highlighting the country's extreme difficulties in paying off its overseas debt.
Mark Morabito, chairman of
Canadian mining company Alderon Iron Ore Corp. (ADV), says he's getting a steady stream of e-mails from bankers who are getting fired.
There's nothing magical about making 99 cents from
a Canadian mining company that beats making a dollar from a Chinese / Indian / American / Irish / Whatever company.
Pat has also recently been appointed to the Board of Directors of Avalon Advanced Materials,
a Canadian mining company serving industrial clients with lithium, tin and specialty metals.
The list of matters he wanted probed was wide ranging, but included the FBI's handling of the investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server while she was secretary of state, various dealings of the Clinton Foundation and several matters connected to the purchase of
the Canadian mining company Uranium One by Russia's nuclear energy agency.
GOLD miner SMC Resources Limited has reached conditional agreement with Western Pacific Gold Inc, a listed
Canadian mining company, to acquire Australian Resource Manage - ment Pty Ltd, a wholly - owned subsidiary of WPI.
Of particular interest is the fact that
Canadian mining company Nevsun Resources Ltd is implicated in these human rights abuses.
Among the allegations commonly lobbed at
Canadian mining companies, permitting forced labour at one's mine surely ranks among the most outrageous.
Penalties for
Canadian mining companies continuing to run their Russian operations?
But then the record of the West in Africa, and even of
some Canadian mining companies abroad today, is far from exemplary.
This paper summarizes four Canadian National Roundtables on Corporate Social Responsibility and the Canadian Extractive Sector in Developing Countries held in response to a recommendation that the government «Establish clear legal norms in Canada to ensure that Canadian companies and residents are held accountable when there is evidence of environmental and / or human rights violations associated with the activities of
Canadian mining companies.»
For example,
Canadian mine companies worry that the melting ice in the Arctic could include the ice roads drivers use to access remote locations.
«This government is a total enabler of
Canadian mining companies destroying local water systems in Latin America and other places,» she said in a press release.
The Canadian Material Index ETF (XMA), is made up almost entirely of
Canadian mining companies.
The best
Canadian mining companies are well - financed with low debt and good management The best way to invest in
Canadian mining companies is through high - quality mining stocks as part of the Resource sector of your portfolio.
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Canadian mining companies already have a pretty tarnished reputation abroad in countries such as Guatemala, Tanzania and the Democratic Republic of
On top of that, the Mexican legal system is sure to present difficulties to any firms that don't trod carefully, a lesson many
Canadian mining companies have learned the hard way.
The hand - in - glove relationship between the Canadian government and
Canadian mining companies should cause concern in relation to the hardships we are creating, particularly in Latin America where indigenous peoples are rightly confounded by our desire to harm them when we are a rich country and live miles away.
Facilitates access to Canadian courts for overseas plaintiffs who claim harm by the actions of
Canadian mining companies.
No surprise therefore that we are seeing an increase in lawsuits launched in Canada by individuals and communities alleging that the activities of
Canadian mining companies have contributed to human rights violations.
Lawyers, and particularly general counsel, have an important role to play in promoting accountability of
Canadian mining companies, said Senator Romeo Dallaire and NDP foreign affairs critic Paul Dewar, who spoke at the Law Society of Upper Canada last night.
[1] The moving party, Amnesty International («Amnesty»), brings this motion for an Order granting it leave to intervene in three related actions brought by the individual plaintiffs, Mayan Q'eqchi» individuals from Guatemala, who claim alleged human rights abuses committed against them by the subsidiaries of
Canadian mining companies.
Not exact matches
In a rare move for the pro-mining Barnett government, environment minister Albert Jacob has sided with the Environmental Protection Authority and rejected appeals by
Canadian company Cameco over its proposed Yeelirrie uranium
mine in the Goldfields.
Blocked from buying Potash Corp. by
Canadian government decree in 2010, the
company has instead sunk billions into developing its own Saskatchewan site at the Jansen
Mine, which, if fully operational, could become the largest potash - producing site in the world.
Shares in gold hopeful Alicanto Minerals have surged on news the
company has signed a $ US10 million ($ A14 million) earn - in agreement with
Canadian mining giant Barrick Gold for its Arakaka project in Guyana.
The federal government's recent decision to block the takeover of Potash Corp. by Australian
mining company BHP Billiton has sparked much debate about which types of
Canadian industries should be protected from foreign buyers.
Several
Canadian space
companies are working on prototypes of excavation rovers that might one day dig for water on the moon; without that H2O, it would be difficult to
mine anything else.
The main touted benefit is that a common international set of accounting standards will facilitate comparisons across countries — that you'll be able to stack an Australian
mining company against a
Canadian counterpart, for instance.
«A lot of
Canadian companies have international
mines.
Meanwhile, some 500
Canadian companies are active in Brazil including more than 50 in the
mining sector.
If BHP had purchased Potash Corp.,
Canadians would have still benefited from jobs, tax revenues and royalties, and would have still enjoyed sovereignty over the resource itself — just not the
company mining it.
There has been uproar from unions this week after it was learned more than 2,000 Chinese miners would be on their way to British Columbia to work in
mines run by
Canadian Dehua International, a Vancouver - based
company founded and run by a former Chinese government official, to name one
company involved.