Regulatory Issues

From left: B.C. NDP Leader John Horgan, Liberal Leader and Premier Christy Clark and B.C. Green Party leader Andrew Weaver pose for a photo following the leaders debate in Vancouver on April 20. Credit: CP.

News, Regulatory Issues July 4, 2017

Editorial: BC falls to NDP-Green coalition

British Columbia is famous in Canada for politics that are seemingly forever polarized between a freewheeling pro-business crowd and a coalition of left-leaning labour and…

Barrick Gold executive chairman John Thornton (left) and Tanzanian President John Magufuli meet in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, on June 14. Credit: Office of the president of Tanzania.

News, Regulatory Issues June 19, 2017

Barrick, Acacia at odds with gov’t in Tanzania

VANCOUVER — Barrick Gold’s (TSX: ABX; NYSE: ABX) senior management is preparing for negotiations over an evolving sociopolitical situation in Tanzania that could lower its gold…

Northern Dynasty Minerals’ Pebble copper-gold deposit, 321 km southwest of Anchorage, Alaska. Credit: Northern Dynasty Minerals.

Environment, News, Regulatory Issues May 18, 2017

Northern Dynasty, EPA  settle dispute over Pebble

VANCOUVER — Northern Dynasty Minerals (TSX: NDM; NYSE-MKT: NAK) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have ended their longstanding dispute over the federal agency’s…

The Port of Vancouver in 2007. Credit: Public domain/Wikipedia.

News, Regulatory Issues May 6, 2017

Editorial: Christy Clark targets US thermal coal in defense of BC lumber

Forget about blood diamonds, uranium and coltan, the most politically charged mined commodity these days in North America is coal, which has emerged as a…

The U.S. Capitol dome in Washington, D.C. Credit: AP.

Regulatory Issues March 21, 2017

Commentary: Anti-corruption rules watered down for US miners

On Feb. 14, 2017, U.S. President Donald Trump signed into law a joint resolution of Congress to repeal a critical anti-corruption rule for oil, gas…

The Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte (right) speaks with Natural Resources Secretary Regina Lopez before a meeting in February. Credit: The Philippines Presidential Communications Operations Office.

Environment, News, Regulatory Issues February 20, 2017

OceanaGold hits headwinds  in the Philippines

If anyone needed a reminder of the importance of diversifying risk, they need look no further than OceanaGold’s (TSX: OGC) news flow over the last…

U.S. President Donald J. Trump signing an Executive Order giveing conditional approval for Energy Transfer Partners’ Dakota Access Pipeline for Bakken crude and TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline to bring Canadian diluted bitumen to refineries in Texas. Credit: White House.

Environment, News, Regulatory Issues January 31, 2017

Editorial: Resource regulators under Trump

Amidst the flurry of executive orders signed by U.S. President Donald J. Trump — starting four hours after his inauguration on Jan. 20 — were…

Rafael Pacchiano Alamán, the secretary of Semarnat, Mexico’s MInistry of Environment and Natural Resources. Credit: Semarnat.

News, Regulatory Issues December 16, 2016

Mexican gov’t denies permit for Argonaut’s San Antonio

The Mexican Environmental Authority has given Argonaut Gold (TSX: AR) a lump of coal for Christmas. The regulatory body known as Semarnat has denied approval…

U.S. President Barack Obama visiting the Solyndra plant in May 2010. The Silicon Valley startup collapsed in 2011, leaving taxpayers liable for US$535 million in federal guarantees. Credit: Solyndra.

Environment, Regulatory Issues December 6, 2016

Commentary: Climate change rhetoric ignores natural forces, geological history

The attempted rapid conversion of the North American economy from fossil fuels to green energy — recently in vogue in the U.S. — suddenly appears…

At The Northern Miner's "Focus on Argentina" symposium at PwC Canada's offices in Toronto in September, from left: Ricardo Martinez, director and partner at Argentina Minera SA; Richard Spencer, president and CEO of U3O8 Corp.; Rob McEwen, chairman and CEO of McEwen Mining; France M. Tenaille, partner, co-Leader for Latin America at Gowling WLG; and John Cumming, editor-in-chief of The Northern Miner. Photo by Salma Tarikh.

Environment, News, Regulatory Issues December 1, 2016

Miner Moments #6: U308 CEO Richard Spencer warns of ‘North American arrogance’ in South America

In this clip from our “Focus on Argentina” symposium in Toronto in late September, Richard Spencer, president and CEO of uranium explorer U3O8 Corp., speaks…

At a campaign rally in West Virginia, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump appears in a miner's hard hat and mimics shoveling coal. Credit: Reuters.

Regulatory Issues November 15, 2016

Editorial: What a Trump presidency means for US miners

Mining’s contribution to the recent U.S. presidential election was nicely captured in the interactions of the two leading candidates with coal miners in the Appalachians….