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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Vedanta – once more unto the breach!
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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Vedanta at Lanjigarh: developer or landgrabber?
Despite Vedanta’s roaring hoardings of ‘Mining Happiness’, forceful grabbing of adivasi land by the company in Lanjigarh has always been a burning issue. Adivasis had been knocking all possible doors for justice: from the local …
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Chernobyl Catastrophe: 25th Anniversary of World’s Worst Nuclear Accident
Fukushima, Chernobyl Raise Questions about WHO’s Role
The nuclear disaster in Fukushima, Japan and the 25th anniversary of the catastrophe in the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine have thrown into relief contradictions in the …
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Rio Tinto – the movie
Activists came to London from Indonesia, California, Michigan and Utah for the Rio Tinto AGM on 14 April. Watch this fifteen minute video to find out about their complaints against the company, why they wanted …
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Red mud spill at Vedanta plant
The people surrounding the Vedanta Alumina Project at Lanjigarh narrowly avoided a disaster on 5th April 2011. A crack developed in the dam holding back the company’s toxic red mud waste pond after a 45 …
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Mexican communities reject London-listed Hochschild Mining
In Mexico, communities are resisting the mining plans of a small London-listed company, run from Peru.
See film We Have Everything And Lack Everything at http://upsidedownworld.org/main/mexico-archives-79/2956-we-have-and-need-everything-in-mexico-community-police-resist-mining-companies.
See company wesbite at http://www.hochschildmining.com/content/index.php.…
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Pollution row hits mining firm supplying Olympic medals
Pollution from the copper mine chosen to produce metal for the medals awarded at the 2012 London Olympics is responsible for up to 200 premature deaths each year, campaigners have claimed.
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Independent scientific review slams Nautilus’s environmental plan
The world’s leading deep-sea mining company last week announced it had “unveiled” (sic) another high grade copper deposit at the bottom of Papua New Guinea’s Bismarck Sea. Dubbing the deposit “Solwara 12″, Nautilus Minerals made …
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