We share this statement from Comites Cuenca Rio Sonora: Sonora, May 23, 2024. In less than three months it will be 10 years since the Grupo Mexico toxic spill in our Sonora and Bacanuchi rivers occurred. It has been...
The company seeks to evade its obligation to comply with the resolution of additional measures dictated by the Semarnat to protect the healthy environment and the interrelated rights in favor of people, as stated in...
August 6, 2022, marks eight years since the Sonora and Bacanuchi Rivers were polluted with 40 million liters of acidified copper sulfate from a leachate pond at the Buenavista del Cobre mine, owned by Grupo México, the...
Authorities confirm high exposure to lead in blood and urine in people from all the municipalities affected by the spill.Economic losses due to spill caused by Grupo Mexico amount to 4 billion pesos, according to INEEC...
The Sonora River Watershed Committees, the local movement organized to demand comprehensive remediation and respect for our human rights following the environmental disaster caused by Grupo Mexico in Sonora almost 7...
Miguel SOTO Director of Strategic Engagement and Advocacy Campaigns, Project on Organization, Development, Education and Research (PODER) Overview Thank you John for this invitation and thank you all of you for coming...
Mexico City, November 30, 2018.- Thelma Moiza, representative of the Río Sonora Watershed Committees (CCRS by its Spanish acronym) and resident of the affected community of Bacánuchi, participated, this week, in the UN...
April 12, 2016. Phoenix, Arizona – When 40 million liters of toxic leaching material and heavy metals from Grupo Mexico’s Buenavista del Cobre copper mine spilled into the Bacánuchi and Sonora Rivers in northern...
Sonora River: One year later - KPBS television video - November 2015 Sonora River: A community still healing - KPBS television video - November 2015
September 2015 Analysis of non-compliance with environmental regulations by Buenavista del Cobre, SA de C.V. DOWNLOAD September 18, 2015 Press Release (SPANISH)