Posts tagged "BHP Billiton"

Please urge your MP to sign Early Day Motion 2396 on Cerrejon Coal

Jeremy Corbyn MP and others have tabled an Early Day Motion calling on the UK Government to support the demands of communities affected by the Cerrejon coal mine in Colombia, jointly owned by London-listed mining …
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Australia Passes Landmark Carbon Price Laws

Australia passed landmark laws last week to impose a price on carbon emissions in one of the biggest economic reforms in a decade and injecting new impetus into December’s global climate talks in South Africa.…
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Kloppers urges companies look beyond profits

THE chief executive of BHP Billiton, Marius Kloppers, in a call to increase social responsibility in the corporate sector, has urged companies to aim for more than profits. Mr Kloppers said companies needed to include …
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BHP Billiton approves development of Australian coal mine

BHP Billiton has approved the development of the Caval Ridge Mine and expansion of the Peak Downs Mine in the northern Bowen Basin in central Queensland, Australia. Initially, this project will add eight million tonnes …
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Part of proposed national park handed over to BHP Billiton for mining

The New South Wales state government in Australia has reached a compromise with BHP Billiton over a multibillion-dollar coal project near Campbelltown, sectioning off portions of a promised national park to allow for further mining. …
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Australia passes its carbon act

The Australian government hast passed its “carbon tax” legislation, marking the first time that a major industrialised state has attempted to price, and place a cap on, its greenhouse gas emissions. Acrimonious debate around the …
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BHP Billiton AGM protest, London, 20 October 2011

BHP Billiton AGM protest, London, 20 October 2011

Protesters from the Occupy LSX demonstration marched from St Paul’s cathedral to join anti-nuclear campaigners, supporters of London Mining Network member group Colombia Solidarity Campaign and others outside yesterday’s BHP Billiton AGM. See short video at …
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Australia approves $20-30bn BHP Billiton’s Olympic Dam mine expansion

Global diversified miner BHP Billiton moved a step closer to expanding its large-scale Olympic Dam copper and uranium mine in Australia on Monday, after securing environmental approvals for the project.

See http://www.mineweb.com/mineweb/view/mineweb/en/page72068?oid=137155&sn=Detail&pid=92730 and
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/10/bhpbilliton-idUSL3E7LA0FA20111010.…
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Pillaging the Pilbara

The world’s second and third largest iron ore mining companies, Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton, are set to overtake premier producer, Brazil’s Vale, in the next few years.

While both companies (notably Rio Tinto) …
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Africa’s Energy Future Heading Down a Dark Tunnel

BHP Billiton’s proposed Inga 3 hyropower scheme in DR Congo, and its existing Mphanda Nkugwa dam in Mozambique – both designed to provide electricity for the company’s aluminium plants – come under fire from …
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Australia PM introduces controversial carbon laws

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has staked her minority government’s future on passing the laws, which would force around 500 big polluting companies to pay for carbon emissions through a A$23 ($23.75) per tonne carbon …
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Glencore’s sorry record of fatalities and fines

The world’s largest commodities trader – and one of the mightiest of miners – has published its first-ever sustainability report, many years after the company was established.

It makes for sober – if not shocking …
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