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Unearthing justice : how to protect your community from the mining industry / Joan Kuyek ; foreword by John Cutfeet.

by Kuyek, Joan Newman, 1942-

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Between the Lines, 2019.

Mineral industries -- Canada.

Mines and mineral resources -- Canada.

Environmental policy -- Canada -- Citizen participation.

Environmental protection -- Canada -- Citizen participation.

First Nations -- Canada -- Politics and government.

9781771134514 (pbk)

Alternate title:

How to protect your community from the mining industry

xv, 391 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Mining and Community Resistance in Canada -- Part I. What Mining Looks Like. Chapter 1: The Physical Footprint of a Mine -- Chapter 2: The Mining Sequence -- Chapter Three: Key Environmental Impacts -- Part II. What It Costs. Chapter 4: Mining and Colonialism on Turtle Island -- Chapter 5: Social Impacts -- Chapter 6: Working in the Mining Industry -- Chapter 7: After the Mine: Closure and Long-Term Care -- Part III. Profits from Loss: Industry Structure, Financing, and International Presence. Chapter 8: The Structure and Financing of the Mining Industry in Canada -- Chapter 9: Canada's International Mining Presence -- Chapter 10: Externalizing Machines: Ecological Economics -- Part IV. Justice or Just Us? Regulation and Enforcement. Chapter 11: The Mining Lobby -- Chapter 12: Canadian Mining Law and Regulation -- Chapter 13: Why Taxation Matters -- Chapter 14: Notes on Uranium -- Part V. How to Put Mining in its Place. Chapter 15: Stopping a Mine Before it Starts -- Chapter 16: Dealing with an Operating Mine -- Chapter 17: Organizing When the Mine Is Gone -- Chapter 18: International Solidarity Work -- Chapter 19: Taking on the Company and Its Investors -- Chapter 20: Scaling up: Work to Change Law, Regulation, and Policy -- Chapter 21: Creating a New Story: Putting Mining in Its Place.

"The mining industry continues to be at the forefront of colonial dispossession around the world. It controls information about its intrinsic costs and benefits, propagates myths about its contribution to the economy, shapes government policy and regulation, and deals ruthlessly with its opponents. Brimming with case studies, anecdotes, resources, and ill., Unearthing Justice exposes the mining process and its externalized impacts on the environment, Indigenous Peoples, communities, workers, and governments. But, most importantly, the book shows how people are fighting back. Whether it is to stop a mine before it starts, to get an abandoned mine cleaned up, to change laws and policy, or to mount a campaign to influence investors, Unearthing Justice is an essential handbook for anyone trying to protect the places and people they love."--Publisher.

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