STOP Mining Tibet!

Tell your friends, family, co-workers about Canada's involvement in these potentially devastating projects in Tibet. If you know people who may be investors in any of the Canadian companies currently involved in Tibet, encourage them to divest and register their opposition to the project with a company representative.

When you speak with a mining company representative, please tell them you're concerned about Canadian mining companies involved in Tibet and the devastating consequences these activities pose for the Tibetan people and their environment. Request that your message be passed onto the company's senior management. The following talking points may be helpful:

• Tibet is an occupied territory and Canadian mining companies have no business being in Tibet until Tibetans are free to determine the use of their own resources.
• Tibetans continue to suffer under Chinese government's brutal rule and mining in Tibet poses a serious threat to the livelihood of the Tibetan people, their culture and the local environment.
• Mining and other resource extraction projects are key component of China's Western Development Strategy, which the Chinese government has openly admitted is politically motivated and a means of solidifying control over the region.
• Mine activities will bring more Chinese settlers into Tibet, further marginalizing Tibetans socially and economically, and posing a threat to the very survival of Tibetan culture and identity.
• There exists such a climate of fear in Tibet today, as documented by the World Bank's Inspection Panel, that Tibetans cannot express their true opinions regarding government supported projects such as mine operations.
• It is unconscionable for a Canadian company to pursue any mine related activities in Tibet without the full, prior and informed consent of people who will be impacted by the mine.
• Gold mining is a process that is particularly destructive to local environments for a number of reasons including the chemicals used in processing - usually cyanide or arsenic - and the sheer volume of waste rock left behind.

Contact information for the mining companies currently involved in Tibet is available here