Rio Tinto is providing the metal that will go into making all 4,700 gold, silver and bronze medals at the 2012 London Olympic and Paralympic games.
Metal for the medals will come from the company’s Bingham Canyon (Kennecott) mine in Utah, USA, and its Oyu Tolgoi mine in Mongolia, where major concerns exist over air and water pollution, deadly health impacts, water scarcity and indigenous rights.
People from communities directly affected by Rio Tinto’s activities around the world, people who work with those communities, and experts on the operations of the company, have contributed to a background report which London Mining …
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Over the last six years, developments in UK law on company non-financial reporting requirements have proven particularly challenging to follow. Beck Wallace has just produced for CORE a short briefing which attempts to provide an …
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London Mining Network has produced an introductory briefing on coal mining, dealing with its impacts on farming communities, Indigenous Peoples, water, air and human health.
It calls for a just, planned transition away from coal and the creation of …
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Anti-Nuke Fact Sheets Galore
Nukes and Climate Change
Radioactive Waste
Radiation
Alternatives
And much more!
This website contains links to a large number of articles about Anglo American plc, which can be viewed at http://londonminingnetwork.org/tag/anglo-american/.
The related Mines and Communities website (http://www.minesandcommunities.org/) contains a much larger number …
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This technical briefing by Inge Lindemann summarises the impacts of uranium mining on human health and the environment and makes a compelling case for leaving uranium in the ground.
To download the twelve page Word …
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“Carbon capture and storage” (CCS) is one of the prime “end of pipe” solutions being peddled around the world, supposedly to cope with the egregious impacts of burning coal. However “clean” may be a consignment …
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Report from Carbon Trade Watch
Carbon trading lies at the centre of global climate policy and is projected to become one of the world’s largest commodities markets, yet it has a disastrous track record since …
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