Teck Mine

Vancouver-based mining corporation Teck Resources announced in February 2020 that it is withdrawing its application for the controversial Frontier mine project.

NEWS: US raises concerns about BC coal mines polluting the Kootenai-Koocanusa watersheds

The Vancouver Sun reports, "The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has made a veiled threat to take Canada to the International ...

UPDATE: Vancouver-based Teck mining company in Chile

The Elqui River in Chile. Photo by Noortje Brantegem. Joan Martinez Alier writes (in Spanish) in La Jornada that the ...

NEWS: Harper backs Muskrat Falls dam for cheap power for mining companies

Prime Minister Stephen Harper will be in Labrador today to announce a loan guarantee for the controversial Muskrat Falls hydroelectric ...

NEWS: Muskrat Falls dam to power mines

The processing of nickle mined in northern Labrador will destroy Sandy Pond in Newfoundland. CTV reports, "Providing cut-rate power to ...

VIEW: ‘Don’t export water, make the jobs come to the water’, says Reguly

Globe and Mail columnist Eric Reguly writes, "A UBS Investment Research study implies that water-intensive industries will have to migrate ...

NEWS: Barlow demands Ottawa intervene against Potash Corp takeover

CBC reports this hour that, "The possibility that Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan could fall into foreign hands is renewing the ...