Podcast appearances and mentions of jamie kneen

The collapse of the Mount Polley tailings dam in 2014 was one of the worst mining disasters in Canada. The dam failure sent hundreds of tonnes of toxic materials, including arsenic, lead, copper and nickel, into Quesnel Lake. More than a decade later, Imperial Metals Corp has been charged in BC Supreme Court with 15 violations of the federal Fisheries Act. We speak with Jamie Kneen, Canada program co-lead for Mining Watch Canada.

This week, Eleanor Goldfield digs into mining - past and present. First, author and organizer Mitch Troutman discusses his latest book, The Bootleg Coal Rebellion: The Pennsylvania Miners who Seized an Industry. Mitch shares the importance of remembering and sharing a radical past, as he puts it: nothing was ever inevitable and that history is taught best when it gives us agency in the present. He also explains the role of media in uplifting the miner's struggle, something more difficult to recognize in today's media landscape. Next, Eleanor talks with Jamie Kneen from Mining Watch to discuss the fallacy of green growth vis a vis lithium - a metal that many are saddling with utopian hopes for the future while the reality screams of neocolonialist extraction in line with other precious metals in a global capitalist market. Kneen highlights the importance of scale in discussing a livable future as well as the dirty fallout from lithium mining.

Today's episode is a recording of a conversation exploring the role of the Canadian Mining companies heavy investment in mineral extraction from the continent of Africa. The role of these companies and of the Canadian government is quite abysmal in terms of their abuse of human rights and the ecological damage done to the environment. We will host conversations about the operations at hand, how they got to the extent of the current enterprise, and about ways we could conceivably reverse course. Speakers in this episode include Jamie Kneen of MiningWatch Canada, Phyllia Ngoatje of Mining Affected Communities United in Action (MACUA) and Yves Engler, a researcher and author . The talk was moderated by Bianca Mugyenyi, who is also Director of the Canadian Foreign Policy Institute which together with Mining Watch Canada sponsored this event

In this episode, Max gives a brief update on the Protect Thacker Pass action, and Elisabeth Robson interviews Jamie Kneen, Communications & Outreach Coordinator for Mining Watch Canada, an organization that works to protect the public and the environment from destructive mining practices. https://miningwatch.ca/ Elisabeth also reads two excerpts about mining from Bright Green Lies, a new book by Derrick Jensen, Lierre Keith, and Max Wilbert. https://www.brightgreenlies.com/ Sarah Gardam reads her poem Upon the Proposed Mining of "Thacker Pass, Nevada", a poem by Sarah Gardam, a visitor to the land of the Paiute, the Shoshone, and the sagebrush creatures. Pretty Mary Sunshine provides the accompaniment with their song Liar Lie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeooaDWXSKM

Listen to the 31st edition of Free City Radio! On this edition, another interview within a series done in collaboration with the Canadian Foreign Policy Institue. This one, an exchange with Jamie Kneen from MiningWatch Canada who speaks about the mission of the organization and also the current challenges around pushing the Liberal government toward having a review process on the actions of Canadian mining corporations that actually includes real world consequences. Jamie also specifically speaks about the case against HudBay mining company for the case around human rights abuses associated to their mining operation in Guatemala. More info on this case here: https://miningwatch.ca/news/2019/11/28/hudbay-operations-peru-and-guatemala-violence-and-repression-found-result-mining Also on this edition we hear from both facilitators and participants in the First Peoples' Post-Secondary Storytelling Exchange an important project that focuses on telling Indigenous stories through film. We hear from Métis filmmaker Michelle Smith, an educator from Kahnawake Morgan Phillips and project participant Pasha Partridge. Full information on the project here: https://fppse.net Music on the edition by @secretpyramid and also @bodyoflight Free City Radio is hosted by Stefan @spirodon Christoff who also hosts a weekly radio show called Free City Radio, broadcasting every Wednesday on @radiockut at 90.3fm in Montreal.

Participant funding for the Valentine Lake environmental assessment will be announced soon, and Jamie Kneen from MiningWatch Canada says groups planning to intervene on the gold mine development on traditional Mi'kmaq land need to start lining up experts and to back them.

Without having consulted the Mi'kmaq people who have used the lands over centuries, a mammoth gold mine is being developed in the Valentine Lake area of central Newfoundland. Jamie Kneen, the Communications and Outreach Coordinator for MiningWatch Canada, discusses the potential environmental risks the development could have on the surrounding ecosystems. Of particular concern is the potential impact to the watershed of central and northeastern Newfoundland due to the use of an ore processing technique called "heap leaching"—a low-cost but controversial process because of its role in mine accidents elsewhere.

As a conflict fueled by climate change, the international arms trade and a Libyan civil war enters its fifth year, Canada's Back™ and as many as 250 members of the Canadian military will see action in the northwest African nation of Mali by late summer. But is there a connection between seemingly selfless international peacekeeping involvement and Canadian gold mining investment? On this episode, Jamie Kneen of MiningWatch Canada and host Andre Goulet explore Canada's out-sized role in the international mining industry and examine the myths and contradictions of Canadian peacekeeping. Plus: how Bill C-69, the Liberal government's attempt at federal environmental review process reform, fails to deliver on promises of respect for Indigenous rights, evidence-based decision-making and combating climate change. This conversation was recorded on May 16th, 2018.

In episode #214 of Talking Radical Radio (April 11, 2017), Scott Neigh speaks with Jamie Kneen. He is the communications coordinator with MiningWatch Canada, an organization that supports communities in struggles, does research, and works to change policies and laws, all with the aim of challenging, reducing, and preventing the many harms caused around the world by the Canadian mining industry. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2017/04/11/trr-mining_watch/ ‎

Tras un año de gobierno liberal, Jamie Kneen, coordinador de comunicaciones en el organismo canadiense MiningWatch Canada, Alerta Minera en español, ofrece un balance de lo que fue el primer año del gobierno de Justin Trudeau en lo que concierne a las operaciones de las mineras canadienses.

En conversación con Radio Canadá Internacional, Jamie Kneen, miembro del organismo no gubernamental Alerta Minera Canadá, con sede en Ottawa, explica el contexto y las repercusiones de esta decisión del Centro Internacional para el Arreglo de Disputas en Inversiones, que forma parte de las instituciones del Banco Mundial.

Entrevista con Jamie Kneen, coordinador de comunicaciones de la sociedad civil Alerta Minera Canadá.

From 1995-1997, Jamie Kneen worked in collaboration with CIDA, the Saskatchewan Forest Conservation Network and the Indigenous Conservation Network in Costa Rica on a community training and mapping project. Listen as Jamie discusses how he shared his knowledge and worked closely to the community in order to create successful environmental and resource management assessments. Volunteer for a better world! Join CUSO International, share skills and volunteer in 40 countries in Africa, Asia, the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean. Volunteers, donate, share skills.www.cusointernational.org