An Ecumenical Delegation that visited Alberta in Canada to learn more about the tar sands’ impacts on people and the earth has issued a concluding statement that tar sands pose complex questions requiring public discussion, …
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Canada’s tar sands: KAIROS delegation statement
Investors urged to focus attention on rights of indigenous peoples
EIRIS (Experts In Responsibile Investment Solutions) and Survival International are supporting a UN Principles for Responsible Investment programme to facilitate engagement between investors and companies to promote and respect the rights of the world’s 370 …
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Africans aim for alternative, fully-reformed, minerals sector
Last month, the unique African Initiative on Mining, Environment and Society (AIMES) held its eleventh annual meeting in Nairobi. It has long been a savage paradox that the world’s richest mineral-endowed continent is also home …
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Urgent appeal to UN to stop mine
15 July 2009
Survival International lodged two urgent appeals today to stop a controversial bauxite mine in India. Survival has called on both the UN and India’s National Human Rights Committee to stop Vedanta Resources’ …
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Vedanta damned
In June 2009, the Expert Appraisal Committee (EAC) of India’s Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) met to finally consider an application, first made in 2007 by UK-listed Vedanta Resources plc, for a major expansion …
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Proposed Vedanta mine threatens livelihoods and cultural identity of indigenous community in India
9 July 2009
The Indian government should immediately withdraw the clearance granted to a massive mining project that threatens the lives and livelihoods of a protected indigenous community living there, Amnesty International said today.
In …
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Hazards of coal
China’s coal mining causes birth defects, says Beijing professor
A Chinese health and environment professor has attributed the country’s excessive rise in development deficiencies among newborn children, to pollution caused by coal mining. See http://www.minesandcommunities.org/article.php?a=9337…
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Fires in the Iron
Commentary by Nostromo Research, 1st July 2009
If anything is certain in mining, it’s that nothing is certain.
Rio Tinto recently reneged on its deal with Chinalco, which would have seen this massive Chinese state …
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London Calling hunts for the truth about copper
Analyst Simon Hunt expects lower prices will soon be seen in an “increasingly volatile marketplace for the metal”; and, with the global economy facing a renewed downturn, prices may dive from 2011 onwards – indeed, …
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Mine murders in West Papua: new evidence points to cover-up
Seven years ago, the operations of Freeport-Rio Tinto at the world’s most controversial mine hit international headlines.
This wasn’t because of the massive toll in human rights and environmental abuses over the past three and …
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British Government faces environmental legal challenge over RBS
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 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 …
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