Indian Environment Minister to review Vedanta clearances
Ramesh to review Posco, Vedanta clearances
Controversy-prone Indian minister for environment and forests Jairam Ramesh has now decided to review the forest clearances granted to Posco and Vedanta Resources. Both the giant Korean firm (Pohang Steel Company) and the UK-based Vedanta Resources have been pressing to start mining operations in Orissa. Their efforts have been stalled [...]
Ministry Blasts ‘Illegal’ Freeport Mining
The increasingly frustrated Indonesian Ministry of Forestry has issued a second warning to mining giant PT Freeport Indonesia for not obtaining a permit to mine in protected forest areas. London-listed Rio Tinto helped to finance expansion of Freeport’s massive Grasberg mine in Indonesian-occupied West Papua and continues to profit from it. Forestry Minister Zulkifli Hasan [...]
Big miners want more flexibility
RESOURCE sector employers have urged Kevin Rudd and Tony Abbott to immediately release policies supporting major changes to the nation’s workplace laws, warning that the status quo would entrench third-party interference at the expense of productivity. While pushing Labor to make changes, the Australian Mines and Metals Association — on behalf of companies including BHP [...]
Australian regulator wants more time to review Rio/BHP JV
Australia’s competition regulator has asked for additional information before it makes a decision on whether or not the proposed $116bn iron ore joint venture between Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton may go ahead.
See http://www.mineweb.com/mineweb/view/mineweb/en/page39?oid=98948&sn=Detail&pid=92730.
21 injured, 61 arrested in South African protest against BHP Billiton
Twenty-one people were injured and 61 were arrested in Ogies, Mpumalanga, on Thursday in protests against BHP Billiton – the second violent action targeting a mining company in the past two weeks, police said. They included three police officials, who were injured on the shoulder, mouth and head when stones and bottles were thrown at [...]
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