Sierra Leone Government urged to revise agreement with London-listed African Minerals Ltd
The National Advocacy Coalition on the Extractives (NACE) is calling on the President and Parliament of Sierra Leone to demand a review of the mining agreement signed between the Government and African Minerals Limited, listed on London’s Alternative Investment Market (AIM). NACE has been provided with a copy of this agreement and their analysis shows [...]
Vedanta in the frame for tax evasion
Around 160 multinationals profit from Mauritius’s status as a tax haven (Tax Justice Network gives Mauritius an “opacity” rating of almost 100%), in order to walk away with billions in undeclared profits. One of the worst of these is Vedanta Resource plc – Zambia’s biggest copper producer and among the wealthiest of UK mining companies. [...]
Africans call for urgent mining reforms
Following a recent African conference, a substantial number of organisations, supported by their overseas colleagues, are calling for “the promotion and protection of community rights, the environment, and realisation of the aspirations of African peoples” impacted by mining. Their demands include a “review of mining contracts to make them fair, transparent, equitable and to optimise [...]
WTO Seeks More Cooperation In Natural Resource Trade
The World Trade Organization called on Friday for countries to work together more closely in trade in natural resources — an area often seen as exempt from many international commerce rules. Governments must cooperate more intensively to deal with the challenges for both importing and exporting countries in trade in natural resources, such as export [...]
Australian Miners’ Union launches Fair Go For Billionaires Campaign
By Andrew Vickers, General Secretary of the Australian CFMEU Mining and Energy Division Fair Go for Billionaires is the CFMEU Mining and Energy’s new ground-breaking campaign to focus public attention on Tony Abbott’s absurd promise to repeal the Australian Labor Party’s new Resources Tax and hand billions of dollars back each year to the rich and powerful [...]
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