Rosemont Mine Truth

According to a press release from Investigative Media, “Flin Flon Flim Flam“, a documentary film critical of Hudbay Minerals’ worldwide operations and plans for the Rosemont mine, will make its Canadian premiere at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Royal Cinema in Toronto.

The Toronto screening opens a 13-city tour across Canada including Montreal on May 25, Ottawa on May 26 and concluding in Victoria, B.C. on July 15.

“Hudbay has a long history of tightly controlling information released to the media and the public under Canada’s right to reputation law,” Arizona investigative journalist and filmmaker John Dougherty said in the release.

“This film produced in the United States provides a rare glimpse into the operations of one of Canada’s oldest mining companies without the threat of a defamation lawsuit that has been used by Canadian mining companies to stop publication of critical information in Canada,” he says. Continue reading →

Spurred by Sunday’s front-page New York Times story on Hudbay Minerals’ alleged human rights abuses in Guatemala, the entire Canadian mining industry is coming under increased scrutiny by Canadian lawmakers.

Liberal MP (Member of Parliament) John McKay is calling for stricter oversight of Canadian mining companies abroad as plaintiffs increasingly look to Canadian courts to seek justice, according to an April 5 story in the Toronto Globe and Mail.

“These unwelcome instances keep on coming up,” McKay said in an interview after the Times story shone a harsh spotlight on Hudbay accused of serious crimes in Guatemala, the Globe and Mail reported.

“And not only does the mining company suffer brand problems, so also does the industry suffer brand problems, and so also does our nation suffer brand problems …. It has been and continues to be a bit of a black eye on our country,” the Toronto newspaper quoted McKay as saying. Continue reading →