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Planting trees in a coal mine
Reclaiming mines is touted as an essential part of a just transition. But in Teck’s B.C. coal mines, two tree planters were left asking: were they part of reclamation, or greenwashing?
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Money rock
Under the peatland and permafrost of northern Ontario lies some $60–$120 billion worth of copper, nickel, and chromite. The Ontario government is hell-bent on passing the Far North Act and mining the so-called Ring of Fire, but the Anishinaabayg have a sacred responsibility to protect the land, and with it, their language.
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Sask Dispatch
Protecting the peatlands
A new proposal would mine peat from northern Saskatchewan muskegs for 80 years. Locals say it would be both devastating to the environment and a violation of Treaty Rights.
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A remedy for climate grief
Unearthing Justice is the handbook Canada’s environmental movement needs. Anna Bianca Roach reviews Joan Kuyek’s new book about the mining industry and its discontents.
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AMLO’s contradiction
Mexico’s new president promised “the end of neoliberalism.” But as he forces through megaprojects and steamrolls over Indigenous dissent, activists are beginning to understand that anti-neoliberal doesn’t always mean anti-capitalist.
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Something in the water
As Canadian mining giant Goldcorp closes its Marlin mine, it’s walking away from fears of chemical contamination and deep social rifts in the once tight-knit Indigenous communities of rural Guatemala.
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After Brazil’s Worst Mining Disaster
How workers and activists are rebuilding their local economy in the aftermath of one of the world’s most devastating mining tragedies.
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Miners, activists, and struggle in Halkidiki
Messages from a community in northern Greece fighting a Canadian mining giant.
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Traded for Gold
Caving to international pressure at the height of the Greek debt crisis, Syriza approved a Canadian mining operation in the Skouries forest despite the local fight against it.
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Of Miners and Land Defenders
When the Canadian mining corporation B2Gold set up shop in a small Nicaraguan town with the government’s blessing, a local group of land defenders began to organize.
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Indigenous Farmers Confront Canada’s Goldcorp
The Maya-Mam people of northwestern Guatemala are struggling to protect the land and water.
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Tragic yet hopeful tales of inner struggle and solidarity
Rock Reject shares the chance to share the stories of the ghosts of Cassiar, tales of inner struggle and political solidarity that are tragic but ultimately hopeful.