The International Council on Mining and Metallurgy (ICMM) recently released a new position paper...[on] Indigenous Peoples...This position comes out at a critical time when extractive projects around the world are disrupting and displacing Indigenous groups. However, there are some major issues with the document...ICMM’s 2008 position paper...[adhered] to the...idea that one cannot mine on land that does not belong to them, nor should one forcibly remove, threaten, or murder others in order to do so. The internationally-established tool for preventing such activity from occurring is Free, Prior, and Informed Consent (FPIC)...Most importantly...the 2008 position acknowledged an Indigenous community’s right to say no...The new 2013 policy paper...removes all language acknowledging that many governments have a history of systemic oppression of Indigenous Peoples...ICMM...stated...that the 2008 document addressed the process of consultation but not explicitly consent, whereas the 2013 document focuses heavily on the importance of obtaining consent...however, upon reading the policy it becomes clear that the council is only interested in obtaining consent (say “yes”), not in acknowledging the power of an indigenous group to withhold consent...