Dark Materials: the consequences of clinging to coal
Posted on | September 1, 2010
Mines and Communities launches a global Special Report Is our planet going up in smoke? NEWS RELEASE From: Mines and Communities, London 1 September 2010 Prospects are now dwindling that a binding Climate Change treaty will be agreed in Mexico later this year. But the science is no longer in any serious doubt. Fossil fuels, [...]
Tags: climate change > Coal > Down to Earth > Mines and Communities > Roger Moody
Opponents of Anglo American subsidiary to be sentenced
Posted on | September 1, 2010
Jubilee South Africa Press Statement 30 August 2010 Sekiming activsts who stood up to Anglo Platinum and its Section 21 company will be sentenced on 1 September 2010. Sixteen community members in Sekiming have been convicted of “public violence” related to a community protest against Sekiming Section 21 company members and a contractor [...]
Tags: Anglo American > Anglo Platinum > Jubilee South Africa > legal cases > Platinum > South Africa
A famous battle is won – now to end the war!
Posted on | September 1, 2010
India’s environment ministry damns Vedanta’s Nyamgiri mine It wasn’t a foregone conclusion. However, following the unequivocal high-level condemnation of Vedanta’s proposed bauxite mining of the Nyamgiri hills in Orissa, a fortnight back, it would have been surprising had India’s environment minister not halted the project in mid-stream. It’s also little wonder that both domestic and [...]
Tags: alumina > aluminium > bauxite > Chhattisgarh > India > Indigenous Peoples > Lanjigarh > legal > legal cases > Niyamgiri > Orissa > Tamil Nadu > Vedanta
New television documentary on Vedanta in Orissa
Posted on | September 1, 2010
Tribals fight for their rights Indian television documentary about the struggle against Vedanta and other mining companies in Orissa http://ibnlive.in.com/videos/129855/30-minutes-tribals-fight-for-their-rights.html (Note: one lakh = one hundred thousand; one crore = one hundred lakh, or ten million)
Tags: alumina > aluminium > bauxite > India > Indigenous Peoples > Niyamgiri > Orissa > Vedanta
Anti-Vedanta activism hits the spotlight in Tamil Nadu
Posted on | September 1, 2010
Vedanta’s aggressions against Dongaria Kondh, Dalit and other communities in Orissa, aren’t the only examples of the UK company’s unlawful behaviour, now confirmed by India’s Ministry of Environment and Forests. Manifold indictments of the company’s environmental pollution and illicit expansion at its Tuticorin copper smelter in Tamil Nadu date back further than allegations surrounding Vedanta’s [...]
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