British Government faces environmental legal challenge over RBS
Posted on | July 1, 2009
See press release below from World Development Movement, PLATFORM and People & Planet.
See related press coverage:
Financial Times: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/8007e284-64ef-11de-a13f-00144feabdc0.html?nclick_check=1
The Herald: http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/news/display.var.2517246.0.Treasury_in_court_over_banks_destructive_projects.php
The Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jun/30/rbs-nationalised-banks-green
BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8126167.stm
Press release, June 30th, 2009
Government faces environmental legal challenge over RBS
The World Development Movement, PLATFORM and People & Planet have today launched legal action against the Treasury for allowing public money, poured into [...]
Church accused of unethical investment in Vedanta
Posted on | June 30, 2009
The Church of England and one of Britain’s leading charities have been revealed as shareholders in a London-based company behind a controversial aluminium mine in India which campaigners allege will wreak environmental destruction. Vedanta Resources, a FTSE 100 company whose majority shareholder is the Indian billionaire Anil Agarwal, won permission last month for its subsidiary [...]
Tags: aluminium > Armenia > bauxite > Church of England > India > Niyamgiri > Orissa > Vedanta > Zambia
Golden Peacock? Pure poppycock, claim Indian demonstrators against Vedanta
Posted on | June 30, 2009
Two years ago UK-listed Vedanta Resources plc was awarded India’s “Golden Peacock ” 2007 prize for best practices in training. That event failed to ruffle many feathers, nor was doubt cast on the organisation making the award – the so-called World Environment Foundation (WEF) based in the UK. Nonetheless, an article in The Observer newspaper [...]
Xstrata proposes ‘merger of equals’ with Anglo American
Posted on | June 30, 2009
London-listed Xstrata Plc, the largest exporter of coal used by power plants, has proposed a “merger of equals” with Anglo American Plc to gain access to iron ore mines and control of the world’s biggest platinum producer.
Xstrata pressed the directors of Anglo American Plc to enter into negotiations over its proposed 24 billion-pound ($39 billion) [...]
Rio Tinto sued for pollution at “best practice” mine “
Posted on | June 30, 2009
A few years ago Rio Tinto walked away from one of the most controversial mines in its recent history – the Flambeau copper project in Wisconsin, USA. A coalition of Native American and local people had taken up arms against one of the world’s biggest mining companies, but lost. The company has claimed it fulfilled [...]
Tags: Eagle Mine > Flambeau > legal cases > Michigan > Rio Tinto > USA > Wisconsin
