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 …
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Expanded alternative report on BHP Billiton
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 …
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‘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 …
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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…
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Unemployed march against Anglo American subsidiary
Jubilee South Africa
Press Statement
14 December 2009
Unemployed people from Mapela and Mokopane in Limpopo province will march to Anglo Platinum PPL mine tomorrow to highlight the lack of employment in and around the …
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Vedanta’s scare tactics against human rights NGO
Metals giant Vedanta Resources’ Indian subsidiary has launched an unprecedented attack on Survival International, apparently to drive its researchers out of an area where the company is planning to mine.
See http://www.survivalinternational.org/news/5359.…
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Clouds gather over Copenhagen – and they’re Black with Coal
This week, the Mines and Communities website (http://www.minesandcommunities.org) has posted a set of articles about coal and climate change. Roger Moody, of Nostromo Research, introduces the postings below.
Within recent months, a Scandinavian …
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The Real Climate Scandal
By George Monbiot, published in The Guardian 8th December 2009
Shocked by the hacked emails? Wait till you see what the other side’s been up to.
The first case study I’ve posted reveals how a …
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Anglo American subsidiary bulldozes farmers’ crops in South Africa
Jubilee South Africa
Press Statement
3 December 2009
ANGLO PLATINUM BULLDOZES SEKURUWE COMMUNITY’S MEALIE FIELDS
Today the Sekuruwe community stood and watched as Anglo Platinum proceeded to bulldoze land the community used for ploughing fields. …
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CAFOD and Development and Peace Canada discover evidence of severe water contamination at Goldcorp mine
An investigation by aid agency CAFOD and Canada’s Development and Peace has uncovered documents showing water contamination at a Honduras mine owned by multi-million dollar mining company Goldcorp. Among the investors in Goldcorp are British-based …
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