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The Big and the Small
Millions of workers around the world depend on income from small-scale mining. Three new reports examine how their economic survival can be promoted, but they come from different perspectives.
The industry body, ICMM, regards these workers as “stakeholders” in corporate enterprises, without requiring a radical change to the nature of commercial mining. See http://www.minesandcommunities.org/article.php?a=9890.
Earthworks wants to [...]
Papua New Guinea: Amnesty urges police violence at Porgera be investigated
Amnesty International has published a report on alleged police brutality and forced evictions occurring around the Porgera gold mine in Papua New Guinea. The organisation asks members of the public to urge the PNG government to investigate the human rights violations, prosecute those responsible, and provide remedy to those whose human rights were violated. An [...]
UK-based company devastating communities in India, says new Amnesty report.
An alumina refinery operated by a subsidiary of UK-based FTSE 100 company Vedanta Resources in Orissa, India, is causing air and water pollution that threatens the health of local people and their access to water, says a new report from Amnesty International today (Tuesday 9 February).
“We used to bathe in the river but now I [...]
Asia Energy makes new proposal for open-pit coal mining in Bangladesh
The Government of Bangladesh is considering ‘positively’ a new proposal of the UK-based Asia Energy which offered the government only 10 per cent stake in the Phulbari coal field for operating an open-pit mine, said sources in the government. Asia Energy is owned by London-based GCM Resources.
See http://www.newagebd.com/2010/feb/02/front.html#11.
The Phulbari project is strenously opposed by communities [...]
Golden Opportunity or False Hope?
AngloGold Ashanti’s proposed gold mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo
New report from CAFOD and South Africa’s Benchmarks Foundation
AngloGold Ashanti is a South African company with a secondary listing on the London Stock Exchange.
See http://www.cafod.org.uk/content/download/106612/1178506/version/1/file/DRC_reportEN.pdf or http://www.bench-marks.org.za/research/DRC_reportEN.pdf.
