Posts tagged "Indigenous Peoples"

Proud Indonesian Miners’ End Strike at Grasberg

An agreement was signed in Jakarta on 14 December between PT Freeport Indonesia Workers’ Union (SP KEP SPSI) and management of the world’s largest gold and second largest copper mining complex – Grasberg in Papua …
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Saami communities protest in London over mining

This morning representatives of several Indigenous Saami communities from Scandinavia protested outside the ‘Mines and Money’ London conference in order to raise awareness over the destruction of their traditional lands by mining.

Saami areas in …
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Xstrata under fire on three continents

Protesters storm Xstrata’s London HQ

Protesters’ account and comments at N30, corporate greed, Xstrata and the right to protest, http://occupylsx.org/?p=1755.

See also:

http://www.businessspectator.com.au/bs.nsf/Article/Protesters-storm-London-HQ-of-Xstrata-P4MS7?opendocument&src=rss

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-15967800 and

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/nov/30/occupy-activists-xstrata-hq-london

Xstrata’s Tampakan mine attacked by community in
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Canadian Indigenous Peoples to fight tarsands pipeline

Aboriginal groups in the Canadian Pacific province of British Columbia said on Thursday they had formed a united front to oppose all exports of crude oil from the Alberta tar sands through their territories.

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Sweden: Saami Communities take on foreign miners

An Australian company’s proposal to mine on Saami land in Sweden “would leave 20,000 reindeer without grazing lands, and Saami families and communities without access to their customary lands”. That’s according to a statement issued …
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Rio rough rides (again) into Canadian uranium

Rio Tinto is set to “rough ride” over a promising eponymous  uranium deposit in Canada’s Athabasca Basin.

This will mark a re-entry by the UK mining giant into uranium exploitation in Canada – the world’s …
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Canadian First Nations sue Shell for tar sands destruction

London, November 30th, 2011

On the eve of the 17th UNFCCC, the world’s climate summit, the UK Tar Sands Network will serve papers to Shell UK executives on behalf of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation …
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The hidden human cost of the 2012 Olympic medals

For the elite athletes of the world it’s a moment to dream of – standing on the podium to be crowned an Olympic champion. In all, 4,700 medals will be draped around the necks of …
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In Indonesia, Anger Against Mining Giant Grows

A foreign mining company, protected by hundreds of soldiers, extracts precious resources from a remote tropical forest. The mining enrages indigenous tribes, who resist. It may sound like a movie script, but it is in …
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Rio Tinto subsidiary’s Bougainville Mining Lease expires

The Bougainville Mining Lease cannot be reviewed, despite its recent expiration, because of an automatic 21-year extension clause under the Bougainville Agreement.
 Such is the case facing the once prolific world copper producer but the …
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Mining and American Indians Still Don’t Mix

The Native American community has a long, troubled history with mining interests, and today that history is catching up with us in Arizona. From a new push for uranium mining at the Grand Canyon to …
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Papua: Freeport-Rio Tinto labour battles have no end in sight

Indonesian Police accused of accepting bribes

There’s no end in sight to the world’s biggest wages-related mining strike, as Freeport workers continue blockading (West) Papua’s Grasberg operations, following Indonesian police attacks that have already claimed …
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