Monday saw extraordinary scenes as we joined Reverend Billy and the Church of Earthaluyah to exorcise the beast that is BP from the Tate Modern Turbine Hall. Filling the huge space inside the former power …
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BP exorcised from Tate Modern
Ceremonial walk protests Rio Tinto mine in Michigan
Barbed wire fences and the sweltering heat failed to hold them back Sunday afternoon. Mine opponents and the environmentally conscious covered the Yellow Dog Plains in a peaceful demonstration, a message for Rio Tinto subsidairy …
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How Green is your Internet?
Two minute video showing the climate impact of internet use.
See http://pointblankcreative.ca/blog/?p=1951 – then disconnect from the internet and turn off your computer!…
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Shining a light on Europe’s role in the Tar Sands
UK Tar Sands Network and friends have been in Brussels for the Canada-EU trade talks. The tar sands may be being extracted in Canada, but the debate over the industry’s future is raging in Europe …
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Did Rio Tinto start a war in Bougainville?
London Calling asks: did Rio Tinto fund war on Bougainville?
Whatever Michael Somare might have done in office (or out of it) over the past 22 years, as the first prime minister of Papua New …
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India: Toxic sludge leak from Vedanta’s red mud pond threatens rural communities
Amnesty International has warned that thousands of families in the Indian state of Orissa are facing serious health risks during the imminent monsoon season following reports of leaks at the Vedanta Aluminium refinery’s main ‘red …
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Glencore taking over the world
Glencore, the world’s biggest commodities trader, located about 30 kilometres outside Zurich, Switzerland, has not been a big name in the public domain, because it has been in private hands for almost 40 years. But …
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Vedanta – once more unto the breach!
Second red mud spill reported in Orissa
The Norwegian government seemed to have got it right when it dumped its holding in London-listed Vedanta in 2007, effectively damning the company as a “serial offender”. In …
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Nuclear News
Germany’s Unlikely Champion Of a Radical Green Energy Path
The disaster at the Fukushima plant in Japan convinced German Chancellor Angela Merkel that nuclear power would never again be a viable option for her country. …
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Construction at giant Oyu Tolgoi copper gold project ahead of schedule
While reporting a wider net loss in Q1 due to a major accounting write-down, Ivanhoe Mines reported that construction at its Oyu Togoi copper-gold project it is developing with Rio Tinto was slightly ahead of …
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Traidcraft’s raw materials campaign explained
Many of the world’s poorest countries are rich in valuable raw materials which could help fuel their development. And many of the world’s richest countries want to get their hands on them. The European Union …
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