Climate change after the talks in Bonn
Bonn Climate Negotiations The recent UN climate talks in in Bonn have at least moved on from the fiasco at Copenhagen. However, the draft text that emerged at the end of the talks is still seriously flawed. Developing nations in the Group of 77 and China described it as ‘unbalanced’. The text calls for global [...]
Vedanta snubs British government again
Vedanta Resources has once again snubbed a British government investigation into its planned mine in Orissa, India, by labelling government calls for a change in its corporate behaviour ‘one-sided’, and urging it to ‘rest the case’. See http://www.survivalinternational.org/news/5632. Follow up to Final Statement by the UK National Contact Point for the OECD Guidelines for Multinational [...]
UK government finds Vedanta in major breach of trust
Last week’s conclusion by a UK government agency that Vedanta Resources has violated guidelines laid down by the OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development) is certainly significant. It serves to confirm claims by numerous critics, inside and outside India, that this UK outfit is a “serial” offender against human rights. On 19 December 2008, [...]
ANCP issues final statement on BHP Billiton complaint
In 2007, complaints were made to the Australian and Swiss National Contact Points (NCP) of the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) about mining companies BHP Billiton and Xstrata, listed on the London Stock Exchange but headquartered in Australia and Switzerland respectively. The complaints concerned forced removals of communities around the Cerrejon Coal mine [...]
