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| More than just costs are a concern at Barrick Gold�s $8.5B Pascua-Lama megamine by Catherine Solyom, Postmedia News December 14th, 2012 what happens up here in Pascua-Lama, where Canadian mining giant Barrick Gold is developing the first open-pit gold mine to straddle two countries, will have a huge impact on the people living in the valleys below on both sides of the border � for better or for worse. |
| New legal action against Barrick over Pascua Lama protocol http://www.miningweekly.com/article/new-legal-action-against-barrick-over-pascua-lama-protocol-2012-12-13 December 13th, 2012 A Chilean lawyer has filed legal action to force the world�s largest gold producer Barrick Gold executives to appear in a Canadian court to respond to accusations that the company falsified information included in the Pascua Lama protocol between Argentina and Chile in 2004, for the development of the Pascua Lama gold mine. |
| Barrick to inject $2 billion to Pascua-Lama in 2013 by Cecilia Jamasmie, Mining.com November 28th, 2012 In early October, a Chilean appeals court accepted to consider a request for an injunction against the company and its project, filed by a group of northern natives in conjunction with the local government�s environmental evaluation committee. |
| Ottawa signals shift in foreign-aid policy toward private sector by KIM MACKRAEL, Globe and Mail November 22nd, 2012 The federal government is signalling a profound shift in its approach to foreign aid that could see Canada�s international development agency align itself more closely with the private sector and work more explicitly to promote Canada�s interests abroad. |
| Chile�s appeals court to hear injunction request against Barrick�s Pascua Lama by Cecilia Jamasmie, mining.com October 8th, 2012 A Chilean appeals court has accepted to consider a request for an injunction against Canada�s Barrick Gold (NYSE, TSX: ABX) and its Pascua Lama project, filed by a group of northern natives in conjunction with the local government�s environmental evaluation committee. |
| Tanzania to Levy Capital Gains Tax on Proposed Barrick Sale by David Malingha Doya, Bloomberg August 30th, 2012 Tanzania�s revenue authority said it will require Barrick Gold Corp. (ABX) to pay a 20 percent tax on any capital gain resulting from its proposed sale of African Barrick Gold Plc (ABG) to China National Gold Group Corp. |
| Ethics controversy deepens around PM's chief of staff over gold giant's lobbying by Joan Bryden, The Tyee August 29th, 2012 The ethics controversy swirling around Prime Minister Stephen Harper's chief of staff deepened Wednesday with news that Nigel Wright was lobbied on three separate occasions by a company with which he had deep personal connections. |
| A short list of how the Harper government has hooked up Barrick and the Munks over the years by Sakura Saunders, editor protestbarrick.net August 27th, 2012 In the federal ethics watchdog questioning of Wright, they question whether Wright was breaking conflict of interest rules by allowing himself to be lobbied by Barrick Gold. However, the benefits that the Harper Government has delivered for Barrick Gold over the years are many. Here's a short list: |
| Activists want Barrick taxed on gains by PIUS RUGONZIBWA , Daily News Tanzania August 22nd, 2012 STAKEHOLDERS have called for the government to hurriedly charge and collect Capital Gains Tax from the African Barrick Gold (ABG) following reports that its mother company, Barrick Gold, intends to sell off its stakes to a Chinese investor. |
| Barrick Chile Criminal Charges Filed and Accepted PR Newswire August 16th, 2012 Mountainstar Gold Inc. (the "Company"), wishes to advise our shareholders and the investing public of recent alarming events in Chile. Mr. Juan G. Torres, the Chilean lawyer acting for Mr. Jorge Lopehandia, our joint venture partner, informs "with regards to the criminal action for injuries (libel and perjury) against each and every one of the representatives of Compania Minera Barrick Chile Limitada and Compania Minera Nevada SpA." |
| Argentine high court denies Barrick Gold injunction blocking law against mining near glaciers by AP, Washington Post July 3rd, 2012 The Canadian mining giant Barrick Gold suffered a legal reversal Tuesday as the Supreme Court reversed preliminary injunctions that have blocked key parts of a glacier protection law. |
| Barrick Gold Suffers Legal Defeat in Argentine Supreme Court by Jorge Talliant, CEDHA July 3rd, 2012 Barrick Gold, the company that had proposed dynamiting glaciers and hauling them off in dump trucks so they could get at gold reserves at their Pascua Lama project, suffered a major setback today in the Argentine National Supreme Court. An injunction order originally granted to Barrick by a local federal circuit court Cuadro de texto: Glacier Destroyed by Barrick� Veladero Mining Roadjudge suspending the recently approved National Glacier Act, was terminally revoked. The glacier law is now back in full force for Barrick and other mining companies operating in Argentina. |
 | Activists demand to ban cyanide outside Barrick's offices in Dominican Republic Salva Tierra March 19th, 2012 The group SalvaTierra took a non-violent direct action this morning in front of the building where the multinational mining corporation Barrick has part of its offices in capital city, Santo Domingo. It declared its support to dozens of environmental and social groups that have already expressed their opposition to megamining in the country and joined the campaign by the Latin America Mining Conflicts Observatory (OCMAL) to ban cyanide in the whole region. |
| Barrick launches new corporate social responsibility advisory board by Craig Wong, The Canadian Press March 2nd, 2012 Barrick Gold Corp. (TSX:ABX) is setting up a new corporate social responsibility advisory board that includes former Canadian diplomat Robert Fowler. "I guess the question in my mind is what an advisory committee is going to tell them that isn't already quite well known and documented...and where the solutions have also been proposed and they're actually just awaiting implementation," said Jamie Kneen of Mining Watch Canada. |
| US Export-Import Bank (Exim) and EDC of Canada will not finance Barrick�s Pascua Lama Gold Mining Project by Jorge Daniel Taillant, CEDHA March 2nd, 2012 US Export-Import Bank (Exim) and Export Development Canada (EDC), two of the world�s largest publicly funded development finance institutions, will not be contributing to the highly controversial Pascua Lama gold mining project straddling the border between Argentina and Chile. The project has already and will further destroy glaciers to get at gold mineral deposits if it gets underway, affecting the water supply for indigenous communities and small agriculture in Chile as well as an internationally protected biosphere reserve in Argentina. |
| Canadian-owned firms are funding U.S. election campaigns by STEVE RENNIE , Globe and Mail February 18th, 2012 The Goldstrike mine in Nevada is the largest gold-producing mine for Canada�s Barrick Gold Corp. Barrick Goldstrike Mines, a U.S. subsidiary of Barrick Gold, has set up a PAC, which contributed $19,000 (U.S.) to Democrats and $28,000 (U.S.) to Republicans. Most donations went to lawmakers from Nevada. |
| African Barrick Gold Mine faces multimillion dollar suit the Guardian (Tanzania) December 25th, 2011 Afrcan Barrick Gold (ABG) faces a multimillion court battle following its draconian decisions taken two years ago to freeze payments to Mwanza based firm, Simba Pipe Line, under the allegations of frauds. |
| 'Nevers had no power to source Gold money' by YANDE SYAMPEYO and DEAN MWAANGA, Zambia Daily Mail December 23rd, 2011 MINISTER of Foreign Affairs Chishimba Kambwili says former High Commissioner to Canada Nevers Mumba had no authority to collect over K500 million from Barrick Gold on behalf of the government. Mr Kambwili has since ordered that the account the Barrick Gold money was held in be audited. |
| Foreign Aid to Mining Firms by Gwendolyn Schulman, Roberto Nieto, The Dominion Paper (Canada) December 19th, 2011 The Harper government recently announced a publicly funded agreement between three of Canada�s mining giants and three of Canada�s leading non-governmental organizations (NGOs). The agreement, which marks a significant shift in how mining and politics mix, elicited little more than a yawn from the media. But a closer look reveals this partnership is transforming Canada�s aid landscape�with disturbing implications. |
| Foreign Aid to Mining Firms by Gwendolyn Schulman, Roberto Nieto, The Dominion Paper (Canada) December 19th, 2011 The Harper government recently announced a publicly funded agreement between three of Canada�s mining giants and three of Canada�s leading non-governmental organizations (NGOs). The agreement, which marks a significant shift in how mining and politics mix, elicited little more than a yawn from the media. But a closer look reveals this partnership is transforming Canada�s aid landscape�with disturbing implications. |
