Vedanta and its subsidiaries have been accused of numerous violations of the law. Apart from various legal cases against it because of its Lanjigarh smelter and its Niyamgiri project, mining researcher Roger Moody has produced …
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Vedantoxics
Vedanta’s top dog is biting on coal
Vedanta Resources plc spent $1.8bn in the six months to September 30, to expand capacities in aluminium, zinc, copper, iron ore and electricity. Since March this year, the company has raised $3.35bn for expenditure in …
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Lead-mining: the ugly truth about Xstrata’s Mount Isa
Daphne Hare moved to Mount Isa, a remote Queensland mining town, in 2002, hoping for a share of the good times. The town, situated next to Australia’s biggest lead mine and smelter, was booming, thanks …
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Bank bailout with no strings attached
If you had £54bn, what would you do with it? How about lending some to a hard-up extractive company scrambling for oil in the civil-war ravaged Congo? Or maybe backing a few climate-wrecking coal power …
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BHP Billiton challenged at AGM
Another year – and another BHP Billiton AGM, held in London on October 29 2009. This year the company more than ever boasted of its continual march to world domination (or at least, domination of …
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C of E investing in company accused of human rights abuses
A company in which the Church of England has a £29 million shareholding will face allegations of human rights abuses and widespread environmental destruction as campaigners publish an ‘alternative report’ into its activities. The Church …
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Farmers take on BHP Billiton
A GROUP of irate farmers has launched a legal challenge against BHP Billiton in to bid to stop the company from developing coalfields in the north-west of New South Wales, Australia.
See http://www.theage.com.au/business/farmers-take-on-bhp-20091026-hgol.html.…
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Philippines: mining or food?
Philippines: Working Group on Mining comments on company responses to “Mining or Food?” report
BHP Billiton declines to comment.
See http://www.business-humanrights.org/Documents/MiningorFood.…
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BHP Billiton, Philippine partner begin talks to resolve row
BHP Billiton, the world’s biggest mining company, and partner Asiaticus Management Corp. have started talks in Singapore to resolve an ownership row over the Pujada nickel project in Davao Oriental, Philippines.
See http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/insideBusiness.htm?f=/2009/october/22/business4.isx&d=/2009/october/22.…
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Spence union breaks off talks with BHP Billiton, to hold public protests – Chile
The union on strike since October 13 at BHP Billiton’s Spence copper mine in Chile’s northern region II has broken off contacts with the company after meeting to negotiate but without reaching an agreement, union …
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