Stand alongside the Kondh
The pristine Niyamgiri hills in Orissa, India, are the ancestral home of thousands of tribal people.
The Kondh tribe lead a self-sufficient life nurturing the forest-covered region and relying on it …
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A world free of mercury? Not yet – but hope rises
It may not represent complete victory, but the unanimous decision by more than 140 states to voluntarily “control” mercury emissions to the environment is a welcome and major step to ridding the planet of one …
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Anglo American to cut 19,000 jobs as mining boom ends
Daily Telegraph, 20-02-2009
Anglo American, the world’s biggest platinum producer, plans to cut 19,000 jobs by the end of the year as the boom in commodities comes crashing down. The company, which owns a 45pc …
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Australian Workers’ Union claims Rio Tinto is blackmailing Australian Government
Australian Workers’ Union claims Rio Tinto is ‘blackmailing’ Kevin Rudd on Chinalco
Matthew Franklin and Nicola Berkovic | February 19, 2009
Article from: The Australian
THE Australian Workers Union has attacked mining giant Rio Tinto …
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Canada: Attawapiskat members issue demands to DeBeers
Protesters at a winter road blockade to the DeBeers Victor Mine near Attawapiskat First Nation in Canada have issued a list of demands they wish to discuss with DeBeers management. The roadblock went up Feb. …
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Aboriginal Australians struggle against Xstrata
The Yanyuwa have lived around the McArthur River in Australia’s Northern Territory for millennia and were able to legally claim the land in 1977 under the Aboriginal Land Rights Act, which allows indigenous people to …
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U.S. financing groups pledge change on climate policies
The U.S. government’s major financing agencies for overseas development projects have committed to scrutinizing fossil-fuel facilities for their effect on global warming and pledging to help build renewable energy plants abroad. The decision was revealed …
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Angolan farmers to be removed for Lonrho
Angola: Lonrho secures rice land deal; farmers will be removed
GCM’s Lenigas in the frame
Comment by Roger Moody, Nostromo Research
The name David Lenigas may become increasingly familiar with civil society groups in sub-Saharan …
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Demonstrators target Graff Diamonds’ London store
11 February 2009
Survival International’s campaign targeting Graff Diamonds over its involvement in a controversial diamond mine planned on the land of Kalahari Bushmen in Botswana has stepped up a gear. Thirty protestors gathered yesterday …
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