Xstrata has advantage in Las Bambas water supply
Anglo-Swiss mining group Xstrata sees few problems related to water in the development of its Las Bambas copper project in southern Peru’s Apurimac region, according to the project’s general manager, Valentin Choquenaira. “We have an advantage when it comes to water in Apurimac. There are six micro basins located exactly where the project is,” Choquenaira [...]
Colombia’s Cerrejon: four contractors die in accident
Colombia’s biggest coal exporter Cerrejon said on Thursday that four contractors had been killed and 12 others injured while repairing a coal-storage silo in the Andean nation. See http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N05169475.htm and http://laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=361947&CategoryId=12393.
DanWatch report on social & environmental impacts of Cerrejón coal mine in Colombia
In May 2010 DanWatch issued a report on the alleged negative social & environmental impacts of the Cerrejon coal mine in northern Colombia, which supplies coal to DONG Energy and Vattenfall. Lawyer Armando Perez, working on behalf of the community of Tabaco, which was forcibly removed for mine expansion in 2001, has written a letter [...]
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 [...]
Philippine Bishops want Truth Commission vs environmental crimes
The Philippines has a new President. He is the son of the national heroine, ‘Cory’ Aquino. After the pro-mining policy of previous President, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, there are hopes that “Noynoy” (as he is popularly known) will literally bring in a new regime. He has promised a ‘Truth Commission’ over his predecessors’ corruption, and the Catholic [...]
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