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Big miners want more flexibility
RESOURCE sector employers have urged Kevin Rudd and Tony Abbott to immediately release policies supporting major changes to the nation’s workplace laws, warning that the status quo would entrench third-party interference at the expense of productivity. While pushing Labor to make changes, the Australian Mines and Metals Association — on behalf of companies including BHP [...]
21 injured, 61 arrested in South African protest against BHP Billiton
Twenty-one people were injured and 61 were arrested in Ogies, Mpumalanga, on Thursday in protests against BHP Billiton – the second violent action targeting a mining company in the past two weeks, police said. They included three police officials, who were injured on the shoulder, mouth and head when stones and bottles were thrown at [...]
Leaks imperil nuclear industry
The nuclear industry, once an environmental pariah, is recasting itself as green as it attempts to extend the life of many power plants and build new ones. But a leak of radioactive water at Vermont Yankee, along with similar incidents at more than 20 other US nuclear plants in recent years, has kindled doubts about [...]
Bloody oil: the struggle against the Tar Sands
Three indigenous women from Canada are visiting the United Kingdom and Ireland conducting a 10-day tour to raise awareness about the Alberta Tar Sands. Dubbed ‘the most destructive project on earth’, the Tar Sands are devastating indigenous communities and driving global climate change. British companies such as BP, Shell and the Royal Bank of Scotland [...]
Report on the European tour by Indigenous women from Ecuador, Guatemala and Peru
organised by LMN member group LAMMP, October 2009
It could be considered that the testimonies here discussed are nothing more than anecdotal information, but this is far from true. The rural and indigenous women from Ecuador, Guatemala and Peru who took part in the European tour organised by LAMMP in October brought emblematic cases illustrating the [...]
