Monthly archive March, 2009

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 …
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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

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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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Rio Tinto targeted for Colombia investment

A protest was held outside Rio Tinto’s Melbourne offices on 13 March to launch a campaign against multinationals investing in Colombia. Rio Tinto has several exploration projects in Colombia and it plans to start mining …
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Colombia: No to Muriel Mining and Rio Tinto

On 28 February the “Consulta de los Pueblos” (Peoples’ Referendum) in Usa – Kirrandara hill ended with a categorical “no” to the mining industry. It is the first time that a referendum of this sort …
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Rio’s road to China

In April, Rio Tinto shareholders meet to deliver judgment on plans by the world’s oldest multinational mining company, to sell a hug amount of stock, and part control of some mining projects, to a Chinese …
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Rio Tinto allies with Mid-East despots

Although desperately trying to bail itself out of debt (notwithstanding the pending deal with Chinalco) and having sacked thousands of workers from its Alcan Canada operations, Rio Tinto has just signed two agreements presaging an …
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Polluted water leaking into Kakadu from uranium mine owned by Rio Tinto subsidiary ERA

THE Ranger uranium mine inside the World Heritage-listed Kakadu National Park is leaking 100,000 litres of contaminated water into the ground beneath the park every day, a Government appointed scientist has revealed.
See http://www.watoday.com.au/national/polluted-water-leaking-into-kakadu-from-uranium-mine-20090312-8whw.html
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Coal is “greatest threat to life on our planet”, claims leading scientist

One of the world’s leading climate change scientists is unequivocal about indicting coal as”the single greatest threat to civilisation and all life on our planet.” See http://www.minesandcommunities.org/article.php?a=9120

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Mine finance report available

The latest version of the unique “From Money to Metals” database is now available. The document contains information about who is financing mining companies and damaging mining projects around the world. See: http://www.minesandcommunities.org/article.php?a=8536
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