Dark Materials: the consequences of clinging to coal
Mines and Communities launches a global Special Report Is our planet going up in smoke? NEWS RELEASE From: Mines and Communities, London 1 September 2010 Prospects are now dwindling that a binding Climate Change treaty will be agreed in Mexico later this year. But the science is no longer in any serious doubt. Fossil fuels, [...]
Bangladesh: protests against GCM Resources subsidiary Asia Energy
London-based GCM Resources is still hoping that subsidiary Asia Energy can open an opencast mine at Phulbari in Bangladesh. But there is still strong opposition. Oil-gas body wants Phulbari deal implemented The national committee to protect oil, gas, mineral resources, power and ports has expressed its dissatisfaction at the non-implementation of the Phulbari agreement signed [...]
Colombia’s Cerrejon: four contractors die in accident
Colombia’s biggest coal exporter Cerrejon said on Thursday that four contractors had been killed and 12 others injured while repairing a coal-storage silo in the Andean nation. See http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N05169475.htm and http://laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=361947&CategoryId=12393.
Is Vedanta the “world’s most hated company”?
Anil Agarwal and his cronies had it coming. Their company, Vedanta Resources, last week confronted a far more vocal and aggressive presence at its London annual general meeting than ever before. For the first time too, a handful of investors stuck their head above the parapet – one of them ( Aviva) going on to [...]
DanWatch report on social & environmental impacts of Cerrejón coal mine in Colombia
In May 2010 DanWatch issued a report on the alleged negative social & environmental impacts of the Cerrejon coal mine in northern Colombia, which supplies coal to DONG Energy and Vattenfall. Lawyer Armando Perez, working on behalf of the community of Tabaco, which was forcibly removed for mine expansion in 2001, has written a letter [...]
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