In mid-May, Laird Brownlie, head of external affairs for Australia’s St Barbara Ltd that acquired Atlantic Gold and its mining operations in Nova Scotia in 2019 for $722 million, sent out an email — a “special bulletin” — about the company’s proposed modifications at its Touquoy open pit gold mine in Moose River. Brownlie’s message […]
Burkina Faso
"Tell me how I am supposed to wash my hands when there isn’t even any water to drink?’”
Cover photo: Armand Bayala (on left) with his AV team covering the COVID-19 crisis in Burkina Faso (contributed). This is the second in the “Living through the coronavirus crisis: stories from the African continent” series of personal stories from different countries in Africa, which provide some glimpses of how people are coping with the COVID-19 […]
The possible horrible legacy of the “coronavirus convention”
Against suggestions that it be cancelled, 23,000 people from around the world attended a mining convention in Toronto in March. Now, a government mining official from Burkina Faso who attended the convention has tested positive for COVID-19, and the disease threatens to decimate that country.
The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free When this global health crisis finally ends, as it will one day, there will be much soul-searching about what could have been done better, and how we could have prevented the spread of the virus and the pandemic. In Canada, one of the lessons learned […]