Two short video productions provide background and update For background to this story, see https://londonminingnetwork.org/?s=Bougainville. See recent video at Panguna Mine, Bougainville, at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rg6q7AGhmo8; some background to this video is...
In theory, Commission officials are required to request permission before going through the revolving door and the Commission can refuse or attach conditions before authorising the move. In practice, the Commission is far too easy-going with giving the go-ahead. In...
Submission to European Commission regarding Brussels I Regulation (EC 44/2001) CORE, Leigh Day & Co, The TUC, Amnesty International, Rights & Accountability in Development (RAID), One World Action, Global Witness and The Cornerhouse wrote to the European...
Canadian undersea miner Nautilus Minerals Inc says it has received a final environmental permit for its Solwara 1 copper project off the coast of Papua New Guinea. The Toronto-based company said the permit from the country’s Department of Environment and...
Jubilee South Africa 11 January 2010 Press Release Anglo Platinum stopped from removing Seritarita School In the Mapela region, Anglo Platinum is trying to forge ahead with its plans to relocate the Seritarita School, much against the wishes of the adjacent...
Major reforms needed on transparency, accountability, implementation and climate change Nijmegen, January 14 2010 Close to a hundred civil society organisations from more than 25 countries* today sent an open letter to all banks and financial institutions that have...
The global Mines and Communities network has introduced a new section to its unique website, dealing with mining and climate change. See http://www.minesandcommunities.org/list.php?f=23.
“Carbon capture and storage” (CCS) is one of the prime “end of pipe” solutions being peddled around the world, supposedly to cope with the egregious impacts of burning coal. However “clean” may be a consignment of coal before...
Report from Carbon Trade Watch Carbon trading lies at the centre of global climate policy and is projected to become one of the world’s largest commodities markets, yet it has a disastrous track record since its adoption as part of the Kyoto Protocol. Carbon Trading:...
Helen Caldicott Slams Environmental Groups on Climate Bill, Nuclear Concessions Dr. Helen Caldicott, the pioneering Australian antinuclear activist and pediatrician who spearheaded the global nuclear freeze movement of the 1980s and co-founded Physicians for Social...
Copenhagen Accord: A Bad Deal Waiting to Happen Center for Environmental Concerns-Philippines, Inc. (CEC), Kalikasan-PNE Statement, 20 December 2009 The climate negotiation in the Fifteenth Conference of Parties (COP 15) in Copenhagen has come to a sour end. The...
Moeletsi Mbeki, brother of former South African president Thabo Mbeki, is no stranger to the critique of BEE (Black Economic Empowerment). Five years ago, he dubbed BEE ” a device for white-dominated corporations to build bridges with the ANC elite … It...