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Mining disasters take lives, leave scars and permanently pollute watersheds. Shifting away from oil and coal leads to huge demand to extract more and more “critical minerals” from unspoiled ecosystems. Laws from the Gold Rush era allow corporations to walk away from catastrophic mine failures. But environmentalists across the province insist we must do better, and some are winning in the courts.

Featuring Jamie Kneen of Mining Watch

Jamie Kneen is Communications and Strategy coordinator at MiningWatch Canada. His responsibilities also include MiningWatch’s research and advocacy in Africa, as well as uranium mining and environmental assessment policy and practice in Canada. Jamie is co-chair of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Caucus of the Canadian Environmental Network and has served on the federal environment and climate change minister’s Multi-Interest Advisory Committee on Environmental Assessment and previously on the minister’s Regulatory Advisory Committee on the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act

Nikki Scuse, Northern Confluence and BC Mining Law Reform

Nikki is the Director of the Northern Confluence Initiative based in Wet’suwet’en territory in Smithers, BC, where she works to improve salmon watershed conservation through better land-use decisions. She advocates for mining reforms that respect Indigenous laws, rights, and sustainability principles. She is also a founder of the BC Mining Law Reform network, which promotes changes to mineral development laws and mining practices to ensure they are environmentally sound, do not pollute waters, respect community decisions, and account for the costs to clean up toxic mine waste sites.

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Read more about critical minerals

Acid mine drainage, Wikimedia