Posts tagged "Bolivia"

Glencore: the monster has landed!

The world’s biggest commodities’ trader has “gone public” on the London and Hong Kong Stock Exchanges, following the conditional issue of shares to its so-called “cornerstone investors” over the previous week.

Glencore has leapt straight …
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Wikileaks reveal British and other Western diplomats target anti-mining activists

Further wikileaks reveal an even bigger “conspiracy” than earlier thought, on the part of western diplomats to undermine campaigns against mining in the Americas.

The diplomats – from the U.S., Canada, U.K., Australia, Switzerland and …
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“Planet or Death!”

Bolivian President Evo Morales’ Courageous Speech at World People’s Conference on Climate Change

Morales’ choice of opening words as well as his convening of this unprecedented global mobilization represents more than a greening of revolutionary …
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How Sustainable Is ‘Socially Responsible’ Mining?

In the ten years since the mining industry has gone “responsible,” have things really improved for local communities–or has the industry’s PR just got better? (Mentions Vedanta, Monterrico Metals).

See http://www.thenation.com/doc/20100301/kennard?rel=emailNation.…
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Bolivia and Chile battle for Silala water rights

“Water wars” don’t just occur between communities, governments and companies. The Bolivian and Chile administrations – hardly friends at the best of times – are now embroiled in arguments over which country has “rights” to …
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