Expanded alternative report on BHP Billiton
BHP Billiton, the world’s largest diversified resources company – producing oil as well as coal, copper, diamonds, iron ore, manganese, nickel, uranium and a number of other minerals – boasts of a strong reputation for corporate responsibility. Communities affected by its operations may well believe that such a reputation is unjustified.
London Mining Network and others [...]
Little climate for change
African delegates walked out of Copenhagen’s climate talks on Monday, accusing rich nations of jeopardising prospects of a binding treaty. This week, the Mines and Communities website updated its mining-related background to this crucial summit (http://www.minesandcommunities.org/article.php?a=9728), profiling a wave and wind-swept Philippines that’s bogged down in coal (see http://www.minesandcommunities.org/article.php?a=9720) and exposing the deception at the [...]
‘Nuclear Energy Is Not a Solution to Climate Change’
As the threat of nuclear weapons looms large over the very existence of life on earth, Dr Sue Wareham, International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear weapons’ (ICAN) Australian board member, is calling for a speedy abolition of these weapons and the rejection of nuclear power as a solution to climate change.
See http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=49596.
Peru: Violence Targets Anti-Mining Activists
On Wednesday 2nd of December a new violent confrontation between local residents and police occurred in the town of Cajas Canchaque, district of Carmen de la Frontera, in the province of Huancabamba, northern Peru. During the confrontation two residents died by police fire: Cástulo Correa Huayama, 39 years old, and Vicente Romero Ramírez, 52 years [...]
Who’s funding what in mining?
Need to know which banks and institutions are funding which mining companies – and where?
From Money to Metals by Roger Moody is an indispensable database and analysis, recently updated and available on-line at http://moneytometal.org/index.php/Main_Page.
