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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, [...]
Anglo American subsidiary under fire again in South Africa
Press Release from the Bench Marks Foundation, http://www.bench-marks.org.za/ Anglo Platinum employee accused of disrupting community meeting The Bench Marks Foundation has expressed its concern suggesting that an employee of Anglo Platinum was instrumental in preventing a meeting of the relocated Magobading community from taking place last weekend. The community meeting was to have happened on [...]
BankTrack calls on banks to stop funding nuclear power
BankTrack, in cooperation with a number of working partners, today (26 May 2010) launches http://www.nuclearbanks.org, a new website mapping the involvement of 45 leading commercial banks in funding nuclear power projects and companies active in the nuclear sector. These banks include British-based Barclays, HSBC and RBS. BankTrack considers nuclear energy a grave danger for people [...]
London Mining plc condemned in Sierra Leone
NB There is no connection between London Mining plc and London Mining Network! National Advocacy Coalition on the Extractives (NACE), Sierra Leone MEDIA RELEASE Freetown, 4 March 2010 Dangerous draft mining contract about to be enacted, NACE warns A mining agreement between the government and UK-based Company, London Mining, contains numerous concessions to the company [...]
Communities protest against British-based mining companies in South Africa
The press statement below mentions Richard Spoor. Richard Spoor is a human rights lawyer who has represented communities resisting encroachment on their land by mining companies. He is currently being sued for defamation by Anglo American plc subsidiary Anglo Platinum and by African Rainbow Minerals. See http://londonminingnetwork.org/2010/02/anglo-platinum-hands-off-richard-spoor/. Jubilee Mokopane, Limpopo South Africa Press Statement 18 [...]
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