The government isn’t telling us the true cost of nuclear waste disposal
UK plans for ten new nuclear power plants will create £80 billion worth of radioactive waste that we still have no secure way …
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Nuclear news
US “supports” UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples – or does it?
President Obama stated that the US now “supports” the United Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. US support is no trivial change in policy, since the US was the last of the original four …
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Climate change and mining
Global warming, mining, new “Cold War” go hand in hand
The USA and Canada have markedly increased joint efforts to assert sovereignty over the Arctic sea-bed and the vast natural resources lying there. If exploited, …
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“Costing Nature” reaches take-off point
The “mission” to cost environmental destruction, and include the loss of natural resources in government and business balance sheets, has reached a new stage.
The final report of “The Economics of Ecoystems and Biodiversity” (TEEB) …
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Convention on Biological Diversity
10th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, held in Nagoya, 18 – 29 October 2010
30 Oct: CBD/COP10 in Nagoya was gavelled to a close at 3:00am this morning. Its outputs, …
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London Calling resumes its attack on the “capitalising” of Nature
Should a price be put on the planet? Absolutely not, according to a commentary made on the Mines and Communities website last month: http://www.minesandcommunities.org/article.php?a=10166.
Maybe, perhaps, perhaps not. That’s the apparent (lack of) conclusion to a …
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Global Witness takes UK government to court for failing to list UK companies trading Congo conflict minerals for UN sanctions
The British government is acting unlawfully in refusing to put forward eligible UK companies and individuals trading in Congolese ‘conflict minerals’ for targeted UN sanctions, said campaign group Global Witness in an application to the …
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London Calling warns against “costing” mining’s socio-environmental destruction
Five years ago, a World Bank study entitled “Where is the Wealth of Nations?” raised a basic question: have most models, previously marshalled to assess the value of mineral wealth, been fatally flawed because they …
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Two statements to the UN Commission on Sustainable Development on Indigenous Peoples & uranium
One of the themes of the May 2010 UN Commission on Sustainable Development meeting was mining, and its contribution to so-called sustainable development. There were a number of presentations from multiple stakeholder groups, and two …
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UN Security Council must act to stop mineral trade fuelling Congo war
Delegates from the UN Security Council visiting the Democratic Republic of Congo must act decisively to prevent natural resources fuelling conflict, said campaign group Global Witness.
See http://www.globalwitness.org/media_library_detail.php/968/en/un_security_council_must_act_to_stop_mineral_trade_fuelling_congo_war.…
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San Carlos Apache call for removal of Resolution Copper
Representatives of the San Carlos Apache Tribe in the southwestern United States read out a statement at the recent meeting of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in New York. The statement concerned the …
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African Uranium Alliance Statement
Uranium Mining at the UN Committee on Sustainable Development (CSD), New York, 6 May 2010
(Among companies mining uranium in Africa are Rio Tinto at the Rossing mine in Namibia)
In the area of mining, …
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