Lawyers acting on behalf of British anti-nuclear campaigners have submitted a complaint about atomic subsidies to the European Commission which, if upheld, could prevent the building of new nuclear reactors in the EU. “Nuclear power …
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Campaigners mount bid to outlaw Nuclear Subsidies
London Stock Exchange – occupied by coal
New analysis from Carbon Tracker shows how the growing number of coal mining companies listing in London exposes the financial market to a significant systemic risk. Investors tracking the FTSE AllShare Index are facing increasing …
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Company plans to mine a billion tonnes of coal off Wales – without miners
The debate over the use of coal in Britain is heating up. Reuters reports a British company, Clean Coal UK, is planning to mine an estimated billion tonnes of coal off the Welsh coast using …
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GCM challenged to pull out of Phulbari coal project
Bangladeshi activists demonstrate against GCM Resources
See Morning Star report on the demonstration organised by the UK Branch of the National Committee for the Protection of Bangladesh’s Oil, Gas, Natural Resource, Power and Ports.
For …
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Sick miners want Anglo American to pay up
Mongezi Mponco left his village of grassland hills as one of hundreds of thousands of healthy young black men who poured into the deep underground of South Africa’s gold mines.
The 54-year-old continued working when …
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Diamond houses keep fingers crossed after change of guard at De Beers
For decades, a quaint practice marks the secretive world of diamond trade. Every five weeks, elite diamond houses from all over the world assemble in a room in London, and behind the closed doors, each …
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News from Coal Action Scotland
1. For Peat’s Sake – Save the Glentaggart East bog! – http://coalactionscotland.org.uk/?p=2797
2. Colin Ortlepp: Next to go? – http://coalactionscotland.org.uk/?p=2794
3. Good riddance! Scottish Coal chief exec quits – http://coalactionscotland.org.uk/?p=2789
4. North Ayrshire Council say …
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Silent Protest Held in Support of Communities of Limpopo
Gaia Foundation press release, Thursday 15th December 2011
Yesterday in Central London a silent protest took place outside the General Meeting of Shareholders of Australian mining company, Coal of Africa Ltd (CoAL). The protest was …
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Saami communities protest in London over mining
This morning representatives of several Indigenous Saami communities from Scandinavia protested outside the ‘Mines and Money’ London conference in order to raise awareness over the destruction of their traditional lands by mining.
Saami areas in …
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Xstrata under fire on three continents
Protesters storm Xstrata’s London HQ
Protesters’ account and comments at N30, corporate greed, Xstrata and the right to protest, http://occupylsx.org/?p=1755.
See also:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-15967800 and
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/nov/30/occupy-activists-xstrata-hq-london
Xstrata’s Tampakan mine attacked by community in …
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