London Mining Network has today published a report calling on the government to include a review of regulatory regimes as part of the current discussion on the Financial Services Bill. The Bill is replacing the …
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Campaigners demand law urging mining companies to open up their books
Campaigners from anti-poverty groups CAFOD, Tearfund and ONE today sent an early Valentine’s Day message to newly appointed minister Norman Lamb by carrying a giant love heart with the message ‘love truth’ to the Department …
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Struggles over mining law revision in the Philippines
The Office of the Philippine President is finalising an Executive Order (EO) which will aim to clarify many of the recent conflicts over mining. A draft has been leaked to the press by the Chamber …
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Ghana sets up committee to review mining contracts
Ghana, Africa’s second-largest gold mining state, has set up a committee to review stability investment agreements with mining houses. Mining companies that have had stability agreements in Ghana include London-listed AngloGold Ashanti, the world’s third …
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Profiting from ‘peanuts’: the DFID’s new plans in India
There has been a predictably indignant reaction to the news that Indian ministers wanted to stop British aid to the country and only allowed it to continue after the Department for International Development begged them. …
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Legal aid bill is “cack-handed attempt to change the legal system to benefit large corporations when they are being sued”
Author: John Prescott in Guardian (UK); Catholic Overseas Development Agency (CAFOD)
First test of UK’s commitment to UN Guiding Principles on Business & Human Rights will be whether it amends Legal Aid bill, says CAFOD…
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Defeat for Mandelson’s billionaire as judge backs the Mail over story of Rothschild and the Russian oligarch
Billionaire financier Nat Rothschild exposed his friend Peter Mandelson to accusations of a conflict of interest while the Labour peer was an EU trade commissioner, the High Court has ruled. The Swiss-based hedge-fund manager had …
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Indigenous landowners want Rio Tinto’s Bougainville Copper Agreement repealed
LANDOWNERS of the Bougainville Copper Mine have called on the government for the Bougainville Copper Agreement (BCA) Act 1969 to be repealed. Panguna Landowners Association (PLA) stated that if Panguna Mine is to be re-opened, …
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Rio Tinto hits a snag in US copper mine clean-up
In November 2001, Rio Tinto secured a “Notice of Completion (COC)” from Wisconsin’s Department of Natural Resources (DNR) confirming that it had successfully reclaimed its Flambeau copper mine. This enterprise generated massive opposition by a …
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Vedanta set to grab further Indian resources – twice over
Vedanta’s contract with Scottish firm, Cairn Energy, to take a controlling stake in India’s most promising new oil field, still isn’t a “done deal”. But the acquisition has now moved one step closer to completion …
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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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Keeping Tabs on Sarawak’s “corrupt” chief minister
A massive Malaysian conglomerate, headed by the chief minister of Sarawak, Abdul Taib Mahmud (“Taib”), is now being investigated by the country’s Anti-Corruption Commission. Cahya Mata Sarawak (CMS), which is controlled by Taib and his …
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