Hundreds of people protested at the Canadian embassy in Buenos Aires last week, and at the Canadian High Commission in London over the weekend saying that the Famatina project would pollute the environment.

Local residents, supported by Greenpeace and others have carried out a number of actions including barricading the main road leading to the site, a blockade which still remains in place. On Thursday, demonstrators marched on the governor's office in La Rioja, demanding that Governor Luis Beder Herrera listen to their demands to stop the project and pay people who have been attracted to the area by the promise of jobs in the mine.

The campaign now turns to securing compensation for the workers who had been promised jobs by Osisko if the mine had gone ahead, shamefully they are being offered nothing right now and have been told that because the mine will not now open they have no compensation rights.