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.
Client Earth report on Rio Tinto
London law firm Client Earth has recently published a critique of Rio Tinto’s corporate reporting in the light of the Companies Act 2006 requirements, comparing Rio Tinto’s record with its reporting, and referring the company to the Financial Reporting Review Panel, which is responsible for ensuring full and honest reporting by UK listed companies. See [...]
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 [...]
Critical report on the Cerrejon Coal mine in Colombia
The Cerrejon mine is owned by three London-listed companies: Anglo American, BHP Billiton and Xstrata. In May 2010 Danish NGO DanWatch issued a report on the alleged negative social & environmental impacts of the mine, which supplies coal to DONG Energy and Vattenfall. For the report and the companies’ responses, see http://www.business-humanrights.org/Documents/DanWatchCerrejon.
Greystar says Colombia accepts its gold mine appeal
Shares of Greystar Resources jumped 45 percent after the company said it won’t have to redesign its Angostura gold project in Colombia to conform to new mining regulations in the country. In a statement, Greystar said Colombia had accepted its appeal against a demand to resubmit an environmental study on the project. Greystar Resources is [...]
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