It may seem somewhat audacious for a company with a market value of $16 million to propose a world-leading energy project nearly one hundred times its value. But, says Petratherm managing director Terry Kallis, if …
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Cheap and green energy for miners
BHP Billiton AGM protest, London, 20 October 2011
Protesters from the Occupy LSX demonstration marched from St Paul’s cathedral to join anti-nuclear campaigners, supporters of London Mining Network member group Colombia Solidarity Campaign and others outside yesterday’s BHP Billiton AGM. See short video at …
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Australia approves $20-30bn BHP Billiton’s Olympic Dam mine expansion
Global diversified miner BHP Billiton moved a step closer to expanding its large-scale Olympic Dam copper and uranium mine in Australia on Monday, after securing environmental approvals for the project.
See http://www.mineweb.com/mineweb/view/mineweb/en/page72068?oid=137155&sn=Detail&pid=92730 and
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/10/bhpbilliton-idUSL3E7LA0FA20111010.…
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BHP Billiton’s Olympic Dam uranium mine expansion
Information provided by Friends of the Earth, Adelaide
The Federal and South Australian Governments are currently considering the final Environmental Impact Statement for the proposed expansion of the Olympic Dam mine. This is the last …
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BHP posts mining industry’s biggest-ever profits
But the “Big Australian” is dogged by criticism
It’s currently one of the most successful companies anywhere, with a market capitalisation that puts it among the world’s top five corporations.
But, as London-listed BHP Billiton …
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UK capital’s importance as funder of global uranium production
If you put together the 2010 uranium output from mines owned by Rio Tinto (in Namibia and Australia), along with output from BHP Billiton’s Olympic Dam mine in South Australia, these two London-listed companies rank …
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Nuclear: too hot to handle. But is uranium still warm?
BHP Billiton may delay expansion of Olympic Dam mine
“There hasn’t been a [nuclear] plant in the world built without the relevant government assuming much of the construction, operating and financing risk. There is not …
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BHP Billiton’s Olympic Dam may be just tip of the iceberg, or frying pan
The blueprint for a multi billion dollar expansion of the world class Olympic Dam copper-uranium-gold mine in South Australia has been in gestation long before the project was taken over by BHP Billiton in 2005. …
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BHP’s uranium mine expansion takes key step
As the nuclear radiation disaster continues in Japan, BHP Billiton said its multi-billion expansion of the Olympic Dam copper and uranium mine in South Australia has progressed into the feasibility study phase.
The move is …
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Australia’s Kokatha People win a land rights victory
A major copper-gold exploration project on Aboriginal territory has been knocked back by South Australian court.
The presiding Judge concluded that: “The native title in the land of the traditional owners in preventing mining are …
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BHP Billiton: undermining the future
Alternative Report on world’s biggest mining company
BHP Billiton, the world’s largest diversified resources company – producing oil as well as coal, copper, diamonds, iron ore, manganese, nickel, uranium and a number of other minerals …
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World’s largest mining company challenged at AGM
Thursday 29 October 2009
“While you are getting a good standard of life … we Wayuu are eating food contaminated with coal … Why, when you have money in your bank accounts, why are our …
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