Yesterday, civil society groups and community members from the Limpopo Province of South Africa sent a letter to over fifty shareholders and potential investors of Coal of Africa (CoAL) demanding that they reconsider their plans …
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Civil society groups demand global corporations reconsider investment in Coal of Africa mining project.
New reports question World Bank’s coal investments
As the climate talks in South Africa approached, the World Bank continued to be overshadowed by past and prospective loans for fossil-fuel power plants.
See
http://www.minesandcommunities.org/article.php?a=11332&l=1
Rio Tinto, Chinalco finalize exploration joint venture
The new company’s priority will be exploring in China for copper, with plans to expand into coal and potash.
See http://www.mining-hub.com/2011/11/rio-tinto-chinalco-finalize-exploration-joint-venture/
Rio Tinto associates to increase coal production in Mongolia
International commodities trader Noble Group has formed an alliance with Australia’s Aspire Mining to market Mongolian coking coal. Aspire’s biggest shareholder, SouthGobi Resources, is majority held by Canadian miner Ivanhoe Mines. Vancouver-based Ivanhoe is itself …
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CoAL faces community wrath over water
Just as concerned citizens of South Africa mobilise around the international Climate Conference in Durban (COP-17), several communities, supported by NGOs, are battling to save a critical part of Limpopo province from the threat of …
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Cerrejon adopts human rights policy
Cerrejon Coal, a joint venture of London-listed Anglo American, BHP Billiton and Xstrata, has adopted a human rights policy. It remains to be seen how closely the company will live up to it. If …
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BHP Billiton – Dirty Energy
BHP Billiton holds its Australian AGM on Thursday 17 November. A coalition of organisations including London Mining Network has produced an ‘alternative annual report’: BHP Billiton – Dirty Energy.
To read the alternative report, …
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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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Borneo mines lure Rothschild into the wild
It was supposed to be a union of two legendary business dynasties, one West, one East. Nathaniel Philip Rothshild, the 40-year-old scion of the storied European banking family, forged a deal a year ago with …
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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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