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Deep sea mining targeted by activists at London conference
Activists leafleted participants in the Deep Sea Mining summit in London this morning – click on image for details.
Ruling against Hudbay Minerals opens way for trial in Canada
In a precedent-setting ruling with national and international implications, Superior Court of Ontario Justice Carole Brown has ruled that Canadian company Hudbay Minerals can potentially be held legally responsible in Canada for rapes and murder at a mining project...
Will UK Coal honour its promises to communities?
LOOSE ANTI OPENCAST NETWORK (LAON) press release 30 July 2013 ARE THE PROMISES MADE TO THESE COMMUNITIES GOING TO BE HONOURED BY UK COAL? Much recent media attention was recently devoted to the consequences of UK Coal Mine Holdings and UK Coal Operations going into...
Niyamgiri is WON at seventh palli sabha!! Vedanta will have to stay away!
Monday 29th July 2013. This morning the seventh village – Phuldumer – again voted unanimously to reject Vedanta’s mine. This means the majority have now spoken, and Niyamgiri is saved by the people’s vote as sanctioned by the Supreme Court of India! In Odisha...
Swedish police swoop on peaceful protesters resisting London-listed Beowulf
Photo: Henrik Blind Press release from National Swedish Sami Association Today Swedish police arrived in numbers at Gállok, Jokkmokk, Sweden to forcefully remove a group of peaceful protesters. The activists are taking a stand against Beowulf Mining PLC and its...
Mitigating Coal: a few steps forward, many steps back…
Who's winning the war over coal? There are signs that those who dig up and utilise the black stuff are finally not getting it all their own way. President Obama recently promised an end to public financing of the sector, and the US Export-Import Bank has voted not to...
Mine Over Matter: Can mineral extraction be sustainable?
These days it seems as though just about every enterprise, from the corner store to multinational investment firms, is pursuing sustainability. Exactly what that means varies, but definitions seem to more or less be about meeting current needs (and wants) in a way...
London Calling on a banking scandal you've probably never heard of
...and London Metal Exchange is right at its centre Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, and other investment banks have for years manipulated the price of metal commodities, to boost their own profits. The cost of their perfidy, in terms of exiguous...
South Africa: little sign of end to mine labour strife
South Africa's gold mining companies have offered a derisory 4% wage increase to their workers - one coming nowhere close to meeting trade unionists' demands. Meanwhile, threatened with further strikes by the "dissident" Association of Mineworkers and Construction...
Bumi sees stock plummet in first day of trading after suspension
Indonesia-focused coal miner Bumi plc saw its shares on the first day of trade after a three-month suspension triggered by the firm’s failure to publish its 2012 audited full-year results. Bumi was initially halted in London in April amid allegations of financial...