The Runruno Land Owners Association (Rulanas) lamented that a mining firm operating in Quezon town’s Runruno village remain unresponsive to the plight of residents who claim to be have been repeatedly deceived by the promises …
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US legal team visits PNG in case involving Rio Tinto
AN American legal team fighting for Bougainville people in a major compensation case against Bougainville Copper Ltd (owned by Rio Tinto) will go to Papua New Guinea to see the Prime Minister Sir Michael Somare …
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Bangladesh: democracy in – means UK company out!
The return of a democratically elected government to Bangladesh has brought renewed calls for a withdrawal of all energy-related contracts previously signed without the consent of the people. Prime among these contracts is that for …
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So you can get updates from us more easily, we have created a Twitter account which will feature the headlines of anything new we publish here on our site. If you are already on Twitter, …
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New London Mining Declaration
The international Mines and Communities network has now published its updated declaration on mining and invites communities and organisations to sign on to it. All LMN supporters are asked to read and consider the new …
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Colombia: Seven year long peoples’ struggle achieves a victory
It may not mark the conclusion of what has been a prolonged and well-coordinated international campaign to achieve a community’s basic rights, following a brutal eviction from their territory. But the agreement made last month…
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Vedanta faces tribal blockade in India
Early in the morning on Wednesday 7 January, London-based Vedanta Resources began moving heavy construction equipment on to land sacred to Indigenous people in Orissa, India. Company workers were met with a massive tribal blockade…
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Resistance to mining in the Philippines
Two major Philippine organisations have published a detailed summary of the extent of mining in their country, revealing the political and financial forces backing the industry, and the broad nature of resistance to it. “All …
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Bishops in the Philippines call for mining moratorium
In a pre-Christmas call, the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines has demanded a moratorium on all mining and logging – until Indigenous Peoples’ rights are truly respected. London-listed Anglo American and BHP Billiton have …
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