Striking miners at BHP’s Spence mine dig in heels
The workers at the Chilean mine, who accuse BHP Billiton of stalling contract talks, threaten to invade installations and block roads. See http://www.minesandcommunities.org/article.php?a=9636.
Three arrested in Vedanta plant deaths probe
Indian police have arrested an executive and two other officials from the Indian subsidiary of Vedanta, the UK-listed mining company, for alleged negligence in connection with the collapse of a power plant chimney that killed 41 construction workers. The chimney collapsed in a storm in late September, as Vedanta’s Bharat Aluminium Company (Balco) was building [...]
Vedanta claims: ‘It is not feasible to remove mining dumps at Advalpal’
In September 2009, a 9-year old boy from Advalpal village in Goa successfully took Vedanta to court, accusing its iron ore subsidiary, Sesa Goa, of illegally dumping wahttp://londonminingnetwork.org/wp-admin/post-new.phpstes above his village, thus causing major flood destruction during recent heavy rains. (See http://www.minesandcommunities.org/article.php?a=9494). Last week, Sesa Goa was called to the Bombay High Court to state [...]
Bloody oil: the struggle against the Tar Sands
Three indigenous women from Canada are visiting the United Kingdom and Ireland conducting a 10-day tour to raise awareness about the Alberta Tar Sands. Dubbed ‘the most destructive project on earth’, the Tar Sands are devastating indigenous communities and driving global climate change. British companies such as BP, Shell and the Royal Bank of Scotland [...]
At It Again: Rio Tinto Tries Busting California Miners’ Union
Regardless of whether it’s true or not, Rio Tinto always seems to know what to say. Rio Tinto boasts to the public, gullible politicians and job hopefuls in Michigan that the company is doing well financially, in order to lend the impression that the company’s Eagle Mine, in the Huron Mountains of the Upper Peninsula, [...]
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