Press statement from the office of Pauline Latham OBE MP, Member of the International Development Select Committee, Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group for the Extractive Industries
23/05/2012
Secret mining in the Congo: …
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Secret mining in the Congo: Integrity of the UK aid programme & the IMF at stake
African Minerals condemned in Sierra Leone
NATURAL RESOURCE GOVERNANCE AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE (NaRGEJ) PLATFORM – SIERRA LEONE
AS CONFLICT BREWS IN BUMBUNA, CIVIL SOCIETY DEMANDS IMMEDIATE GOVERNMENT ACTION PRESS RELEASE Freetown, Wednesday, 9th May, 2012. We, the civil society organisations working …
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Glencore ‘should explain potentially corrupt deals in Congo’ – Global Witness
Global Witness is today calling on Glencore to explain potentially corrupt deals in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and is calling on the company to provide more details about its relationship with an Israeli businessman …
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BHP Billiton’s move against Aboriginal elder ‘punitive and vindictive’
MEDIA RELEASE AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR FREE ALLIANCE
1st May 2012
DEMOCRACY AT A PRICE: DECISION BY BHP BILLITON AND FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO SEEK COSTS FROM ARABUNNA ELDER PUNITIVE AND VINDICTIVE
The Australian Nuclear Free Alliance (ANFA) …
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BHP Billiton wants money from Aboriginal elder
MEDIA RELEASE FRIDAY 20th APRIL 20212
MINING GIANT SEEKS COSTS FROM ARABUNNA ELDER AFTER RULING ON CHALLENGE TO FEDERAL APPROVAL OF THE OLYMPIC DAM EXPANSION
In a packed courtroom today Justice Besanko dismissed Uncle Kevin …
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BHP Billiton’s uranium mine expansion challenged in court
MEDIA RELEASE
Monday 2nd April
OLYMPIC DAM APPROVAL CHALLENGED IN FEDERAL COURT THIS WEEK
David and Goliath: Kevin Buzzacott v Federal Environment Minister, SA Government and BHP Billiton
Uncle Kevin Buzzacott, Aboriginal Elder of the …
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Launch of the Pandora’s Box Report
Gaia Foundation has published a report, Opening Pandora’s Box – A New Wave of Land Grabbing for the Extractive Industries and The Devastating Impact on Earth.
GCM’s Phulbari project threatens fundamental rights, warn UN experts
UN experts believe that GCM’s Phulbari project would cause “massive disruption”.
Silent Protest Held in Support of Communities of Limpopo
Gaia Foundation press release, Thursday 15th December 2011
Yesterday in Central London a silent protest took place outside the General Meeting of Shareholders of Australian mining company, Coal of Africa Ltd (CoAL). The protest was …
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Civil society groups demand global corporations reconsider investment in Coal of Africa mining project.
Yesterday, civil society groups and community members from the Limpopo Province of South Africa sent a letter to over fifty shareholders and potential investors of Coal of Africa (CoAL) demanding that they reconsider their plans …
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Saami communities protest in London over mining
This morning representatives of several Indigenous Saami communities from Scandinavia protested outside the ‘Mines and Money’ London conference in order to raise awareness over the destruction of their traditional lands by mining.
Saami areas in …
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