Critical Minerals & Mining

As a Canadian company appears to sidestep international law and works in tandem with the Trump administration for a deep-sea mining licence, legal experts and activists are urging Prime Minister Mark Carney to censure its actions and publicly reassert Canada’s position supporting a moratorium on mining the fragile ecosystems.

Two Innu band councils in Quebec have rejected last week’s non-binding agreement between Quebec, Newfoundland and Labrador, and the federal government to hugely expand hydroelectric generation along the Churchill River and build regional transmission capacity, saying they were never consulted.

Earthjustice is suing the United States government a month after the Trump administration announced plans to auction off massive sections of water for potential deep-sea mining.

The first legal challenge against a 107-kilometre road into Ontario’s Ring of Fire region is raising questions about whether piece-by-piece assessments of new mining infrastructure will accurately capture its cumulative impact.

A Montreal start-up says it is close to scaling up a cleaner, cheaper, more efficient process for delivering highly-purified graphite for electric vehicle batteries, drones, and other applications.

Without a plan to remove the criminal gangs and Colombian guerrillas that control gold mines in southern Venezuela, new foreign investments might worsen a vicious cycle of environmental destruction, ethnocide, and bribery, local advocacy groups tell The Energy Mix.

Supply concentration, especially in refining, as well as proliferating export controls, declining investment, and supply chain and work force bottlenecks are putting critical mineral security at risk for most countries, the International Energy Agency warns in its latest annual Global Critical Minerals Outlook.

Almost a year after the federal government's Bill C-5 was rushed through Parliament, Ottawa is finally looking to use its new powers to expedite projects deemed to be in the national interest.

Up to 10 new nuclear reactors by 2041, more Candu reactor sales to other countries, and a doubling in uranium exports by 2035 are key elements of the “new civilian nuclear renaissance” the federal government hopes to ring in with a new nuclear energy strategy released Monday by Energy and...

The diesel and hydroelectric generators built for industry in Canada's North are expensive and aging, write Lynne Couves and Rosa Brown in Policy Options. Repair and improvement can’t be the sole burden of communities.

In northern Ontario, hundreds of kilometres from the nearest highway, a vast stretch of peatlands and boreal forest is being positioned as central to Canada’s economic future.

Three lithium mines in Nevada, two of them Canadian-owned, violate Indigenous rights and international law, according to Amnesty International research published May 12.

The transition to electric vehicles is lauded as one of the best solutions to reduce the roughly 10% of global greenhouse gas emissions that cars and vans emit annually, but what if it went one step further and eliminated cars entirely?

In a world of tight carbon budgets and finite critical minerals, the war economy and the energy transition are rival claimants on the same resources, and only one of them can ultimately keep us safe, writes Ralph Torrie, director of research at Corporate Knights.

A graphite mine in Saint-Michel-des-Saints, Quebec will see US$297 million in new investment in a deal that includes contributions from the Canada Growth Fund, Investissement Québec, BMO Capital Markets, National Bank Capital Markets, and Italian fossil giant Eni SpA.