Pourtant, le projet continue d’avancer dans le processus d’autorisation du gouvernement. Rouyn-Noranda n’est pas une zone sacrifiée. Lire l’article complet sur: yestolifenotomining.org/quebec-horne...

Après les audiences publiques, le Bureau d’audiences publiques sur l’environnement du Québec a conclu que Horne 5 est inacceptable 💥

La Première Nation de Long Point a clairement affirmé que le projet doit obtenir son consentement préalable et éclairé.

Horne 5 soulève de graves préoccupations concernant la santé publique, l’eau potable, la qualité de l’air, les affaissements de terrain, la sismicité induite, la pression sur le logement et les droits ancestraux des peuples autochtones.

Mais Rouyn-Noranda n’est pas qu’une région ressource. 🙌🌱 C’est une ville vivante de 42 000 habitant·e·s, située sur le Nitakinan, Anicinape Aki, territoire anishinaabe non cédé. C’est aussi un lieu habité déjà surexposée à la pollution industrielle toxique de la Fonderie Horne de Glencore.

Le projet prévoit l’extraction de 15 500 tonnes de minerai par jour, à des profondeurs allant jusqu’à 2 000 mètres, et générerait environ 80 millions de tonnes de résidus miniers.

Le projet, porté par Ressources Falco Ltée, vise à exploiter un gisement polymétallique dont la principale valeur économique repose sur l’or.

Et si un dangereux projet minier était proposé sous votre ville?☣️ C’est ce à quoi font face les communautés de Rouyn-Noranda, au Québec, avec Horne 5 : un projet de mine souterraine dans le quartier Notre-Dame, sous une zone urbaine déjà marquée par aujourd’hui un siècle de pollution industrielle🧵👇

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The mining tenement also overlaps with the wider Mount Mantalingahan landscape, one of Palawan’s most important areas for biodiversity and water. The barricade may be gone, but the resistance continues. ✊🏽

This is not only a dispute over a mining site. 🌿 The forests and watersheds of Brooke’s Point sustain freshwater springs, farms, fishing grounds and entire communities downstream.

Local Indigenous leaders say Calmia Nickel Inc. entered the territory without genuinely consulting them. They are also calling for an investigation into a consent process they believe was manipulated to favour mining interests.

For nearly three months, Pala’wan communities in Sitio Linao maintained a barricade to prevent mining machinery from advancing further into their ancestral domain ✋️ 📣 On June 29, the barricade was dismantled in an operation supported by several state agencies. 🧵👇

Rainforest Rescue has prepared a collective letter calling on the EU to confront the real costs of mining and respect communities’ right to say NO. We are joining their call ✊️ ✍️ Sign the petition: www.rainforest-rescue.org/petitions/13... A transition built on dispossession cannot be called just.

On July 29, the European Commission will close its public consultation on the proposed EU Critical Raw Materials Centre, an initiative intended to coordinate raw material purchasing, investments, stockpiling and supply-chain intelligence 🫠

But the environmental, social and human rights costs are being imposed on communities that receive few of the supposed benefits.

Europe’s race to secure critical raw materials is accelerating extraction and destruction 📣 💥 Nickel, lithium, copper, cobalt, bauxite and rare earths are being demanded for electric mobility, digital infrastructure, artificial intelligence, aerospace development and growing weapons production. 🧵👇

The question is not whether this territory has a future. It is who gets to decide it ✊ ✍️ Based on an article by Yayasan APEL Green Aceh: yestolifenotomining.org/indonesia-we...

🙌 But communities are not simply saying no. They are defending economies rooted in agriculture, non-timber forest products and customary forest management — livelihoods that have sustained Beutong Ateuh for generations.

Residents say recommendations supporting mining companies were issued without meaningful consultation or public participation. Their struggle is also a defence of the Leuser Ecosystem, one of Sumatra’s most important remaining forest landscapes 🐅🦧

Now, together with Yayasan APEL Green Aceh and backed by 87 organisations from Indonesia and around the world, they are calling on the Aceh Parliament to halt mining permit processes and establish a special committee to investigate how decisions affecting their territory have been made 🔎

“We will reject mining until death” ✊🔥 📣 For more than eight years, communities in Beutong Ateuh, Aceh, have resisted mining plans that threaten their forests, livelihoods, history and collective future. 🧵👇

After public hearings, Quebec’s Bureau d’audiences publiques sur l’environnement concluded that Horne 5 is unacceptable 💥 @miningwatch.bsky.social 🤝 @coalitionqmm.bsky.social

Horne 5 raises serious concerns over public health, drinking water, air quality, land subsidence, induced seismicity, housing pressure and Indigenous rights. Long Point First Nation has made clear that the project must obtain its prior and informed consent.

But Rouyn-Noranda is not an empty map. 🙌🌱 It is a living city of 42,000 people, located on Nitakinan, Anicinape Aki, unceded Anishinaabe territory. It is also a community already overexposed to toxic industrial pollution from Glencore’s Horne Smelter.

The project, led by Falco Resources, aims to extract a polymetallic deposit whose main economic value lies in gold. It would process 15,500 tonnes of ore per day, reach depths of up to 2,000 metres, and generate around 80 million tonnes of mine tailings 🫠

What if a massive mine was proposed beneath your city? ☣️ 📣✊️ That is what communities in Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec, are facing with Horne 5: a proposed underground mining project in the Notre-Dame neighbourhood, beneath an urban area already marked by nearly a century of industrial pollution. 🧵👇

Desde Yes to Life No to Mining nos sumamos a la convocatoria para acompañarlos: 📅 3, 4, 5 y 6 de agosto 📍 Parque Principal de Jericó 🌀 Movilización, conversación, espiritualidad, arte y olla comunitaria.

Meses después, la Agencia Nacional de Minería negó a Quebradona una cuarta prórroga para seguir explorando. Pero mientras el proyecto minero enfrenta obstáculos, los campesinos continúan judicializados 🔥✊️

En junio de 2025, un juez rechazó que fueran enviados a prisión domiciliaria y permitió que continuaran defendiéndose en libertad.