Troubles mount for Vedanta – OECD accepts Survival complaint as chairman faces fraud inquiry
UK mining giant Vedanta Resources was dealt a double blow as the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) agreed that all the complaints made by Survival International about the company’s planned bauxite mine in Orissa merit further consideration, and Indian police investigate fraud allegations against the company’s billionaire chairman Anil Agarwal.
See http://www.survival-international.org/news/4373
Survival has also [...]
Declaration of the International Conference on Extractive Industries and Indigenous Peoples
23-25 March 2009
Legend Villas, Metro Manila, Philippines
When all the trees have been cut down,
When all the animals have been hunted,
When all the waters are polluted,
When all the air is unsafe to breathe,
Only then will you discover you cannot eat money.
- Cree prophecy
Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it [...]
Rio Tinto implicated in payments to Indonesian military
US-based mining giant Freeport McMoRan is still paying Indonesian troops to protect a large gold and copper mine in Papua, despite regulations requiring the military to hand over to police. London-based Rio Tinto helped finance the expansion of the Grasberg mine and continues to profit from its operations.
Freeport McMoRan said its local subsidiary paid “less [...]
Peru blames police in copper mine torture case
Peruvian prosecutors have accused police of torturing protesters at a mining camp in 2005 but cleared a British-Chinese metals company and its security firm of wrongdoing.
Lawyers for Fedepaz, the rights group that filed the complaint along with the National Coordinating Committee, denounced the findings as incomplete.
“The prosecutors have decided to blame some of the officers [...]
UN Body wants mining companies to respect rights of Indigenous Peoples and adhere to international standards of corporate accountability
Among the major mining investors in the Philippines are London-listed Anglo American and BHP Billiton
PRESS RELEASE, March 24, 2009
MANILA, Philippines – Some 85 representatives of Indigenous Peoples from around the world have arrived in the country for the International Conference on Indigenous Peoples and Extractive Industries to find effective ways in combating abuses committed by [...]
