BHP Billiton project may be at risk
In a broadly welcome move, the Indonesian government has introduced a moratorium on the issuing of new permits for forest felling in the country. However, critics say it …
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Indonesia Finally Signs Forest Clearing Moratorium
HIV/AIDS rates in West Papua rocket, partly thanks to Freeport-Rio Tinto
Official figures released this month show that the number of people with HIV/AIDS in West Papua has grown by more than 30% in just four months. The figure now stands at more than 17,000. However, …
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Vallar bids for 9.74% stake in Berau Coal
Vallar Investments UK Limited, a London-based company, is bidding for 9.743% stake in Indonesian company PT Berau Coal Energy Tbk. About 3,400,000,500 shares of Berau’s total placed and paid-in capital are put for a tender …
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ICMM accepts new members
The London-based International Council on Mining and Metals includes numerous companies about whose activities LMN member groups are deeply concerned. (See http://www.icmm.com/members/member-companies.)
ICMM is now ‘delighted’ to welcome a French uranium mining company being …
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Rio Tinto – the movie
Activists came to London from Indonesia, California, Michigan and Utah for the Rio Tinto AGM on 14 April. Watch this fifteen minute video to find out about their complaints against the company, why they wanted …
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Indonesian Green Activist addresses Rio Tinto Shareholders in London
Nostromo Research
14 April 2011
LONDON -Chalid Muhammad, one of Indonesia’s leading Green activists, attended the Annual Shareholders Meeting of the Rio Tito mining corporation, held in London today (April 14 2011).
Chalid had flown …
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Rio Tinto AGM 14 April 2011
Rio Tinto’s AGM took place in London at 11am on Thursday 14 April. Protests outside were led by Utah Moms for Clean Air and supported by London Mining Network. For more information, click on headline.
Activists from around the world attack British mining giant
On 14 April 2011, London-based Rio Tinto plc held its AGM (annual shareholders’ meeting) in London.
14 April also marked the thirtieth anniversary of the first concerted intervention by “dissident shareholders” in what is now …
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London Olympic Medal Provider slammed for abuses
NEWS PEG: Thursday, 14 April 2011 Rio Tinto annual meeting
Wednesday, 13 April 2011
London Olympic Medal Provider slammed for abuses
Gold, silver and bronze medals for the London 2012 Games will be sourced from …
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Two dynasties, several pits: Messrs Rothschild and Bakrie team up to dig coal in Indonesia
COAL is so popular that it makes for odd bedfellows.
In November Nat Rothschild, a member of a prominent European banking dynasty, announced a tie-up with one of South-East Asia’s most controversial tycoons.
Aburizal Bakrie is …
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Will BHP Billiton’s shameful Indonesian mining legacy finally be addressed?
In 1860 a Dutch company secured “rights” to mine tin from two of the largest deposits of their kind, on the Indonesian tropical islands of Bangka and Belitung. That company – Billiton – didn’t withdraw …
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Discretion isn’t the better part of Vallar!
PT Renaissance Capital is an Indonesian bank, controlled by two Indonesian citizens, both educated abroad.(It should not be confused with Russia’s Renaissance Capital to which there is no known link). In 2009, the bank acquired …
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