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Rainforest Information Centre in Australia has launched an email campaign to protect Niyamgiri, a sacred mountain in Orissa, India, the Dongria Kondh, an indigenous tribe who worship this mountain as their god as well as the elephants, tigars and leopards who live there. Please visit http://www.niyamgiri.net where, with a few clicks of the mouse, you [...]
The BP catastrophe and mining finance
Offshore Drilling Backlash May Boost Shale, Oil Sands The massive Gulf oil spill may hasten the development of shale gas and oil sands, North America’s two most important emerging energy sources. The risk of pursuing deepwater oil reserves dwarfs the environmental concerns facing both onshore sectors. See http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE65D56I20100614. (For information on tarsands, and the destructive [...]
Amnesty petition on Vedanta
London-based Vedanta Resources, through its subsidiary companies, plans to mine for bauxite in the Niyamgiri Hills, considered sacred by the Indigenous Dongria Kondh community. The proposed mine will threaten the community’s rights to water, food, health and work. Local communities in nearby Lanjigarh, whose farmlands were acquired for Vedanta’s alumina refinery in 2003, are struggling [...]
Protest the Pebble Mine
Sign the Petition telling mining giant Anglo American that you oppose its disastrous Pebble Mine scheme in Alaska. Rio Tinto also has a minority stake in the project. See https://secure.nrdconline.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=1781.
Amnesty International petition on Vedanta
UK-based mining company is abusing the human rights of indigenous communities in Orissa, India Vedanta Resources, through its subsidiary companies plans to mine for bauxite in the Niyamgiri Hills, considered sacred by the Indigenous Dongria Kondh community. The proposed mine will threaten the community’s rights to water, food, health and work. Local communities in nearby [...]
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