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Dark Materials: the consequences of clinging to coal
Mines and Communities launches a global Special Report Is our planet going up in smoke? NEWS RELEASE From: Mines and Communities, London 1 September 2010 Prospects are now dwindling that a binding Climate Change treaty will be agreed in Mexico later this year. But the science is no longer in any serious doubt. Fossil fuels, [...]
Sierra Leone Government urged to revise agreement with London-listed African Minerals Ltd
The National Advocacy Coalition on the Extractives (NACE) is calling on the President and Parliament of Sierra Leone to demand a review of the mining agreement signed between the Government and African Minerals Limited, listed on London’s Alternative Investment Market (AIM). NACE has been provided with a copy of this agreement and their analysis shows [...]
Client Earth report on Rio Tinto
London law firm Client Earth has recently published a critique of Rio Tinto’s corporate reporting in the light of the Companies Act 2006 requirements, comparing Rio Tinto’s record with its reporting, and referring the company to the Financial Reporting Review Panel, which is responsible for ensuring full and honest reporting by UK listed companies. See [...]
DanWatch report on social & environmental impacts of Cerrejón coal mine in Colombia
In May 2010 DanWatch issued a report on the alleged negative social & environmental impacts of the Cerrejon coal mine in northern Colombia, which supplies coal to DONG Energy and Vattenfall. Lawyer Armando Perez, working on behalf of the community of Tabaco, which was forcibly removed for mine expansion in 2001, has written a letter [...]
Documentation on Barrick Gold in PNG
In October & November 2009, the Canadian House of Commons’ Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs & Intl. Development held hearings on “Bill C-300, An Act respecting Corporate Accountability”. Statements were made regarding issues including allegations of killings, rape & other security problems involving personnel at the Porgera Joint Venture in Papua New Guinea, as well [...]
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