NAFTA Panel to Hear U.S.-Canada Gold Mine Dispute

Environment News Service, August, 2007

WASHINGTON, DC (ENS) — --> Next week, an international arbitration panel will hear a dispute between Canada and the United States over an open-pit, cyanide heap leach gold mine proposed but not developed in the California desert.

The arbitration is an attempt to settle a claim by a Canadian gold mining corporation that the U.S. refusal to approve its mine proposal violates the North American Free Trade Agreement, NAFTA.

In the early 1990s, Glamis Gold, Ltd. proposed the mine that opponents say would have destroyed a pristine desert wilderness area, consumed 389 million gallons of desert groundwater annually, and impacted sites sacred to the Quechan Indian Nation.

Glamis merged with another Canadian company, Goldcorp, last November, creating one of...

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