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Eldorado Gold slashes capital spending by 35%, shelves projects as gold price falls
Eldorado Gold Corp says it will bump back the start dates for three of its European development projects — Skouries and Perama in Greece and Certej in Romania — by at least a year, into 2016 or 2017. See...
Bougainville president fails victims of brutal resource conflict
A decade long war in Papua New Guinea has left deep scars on Bougainville and its people. Some will never be erased, others may fade with time. Sadly political leaders on Bougainville charged with responsibility for peace-building have largely abrogated their domestic...
Court of Sessions Decision over Scottish Coal Creates an Even Bigger Hole in the Scottish Planning System
The Loose Anti Opencast Network (LAON ) Press Release 15 July 2013 On Thursday, the Scottish Court of Sessions, drove a horse and cart through the carefully constructed array of planning policies developed over a long period of time to protect the Scottish people from...
Fresh controversy engulfs scandal-hit ENRC over Brazil port plans
By Rob Davies - Daily Mail, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/markets/article-2363475/Fresh-controversy-engulfs-scandal-hit-ENRC-Brazil-port-plans.html#ixzz2Z5zxkRdK 14 July 2013 ENRC is risking fresh controversy over plans to build a huge port in one of Brazil’s...
More Communities Could be at Risk of having an Opencast Mine as a Neighbour after UK Coal is Rescued
Loose Anti-Opencast Network (LAON) press release 10 July 2013 News that 2,000 jobs have been saved and that pensions have been protected by the rescue operation mounted around the collapse of UK Coal Mining and UK Coal Operations, has so far been praised on all sides...
Mongolian herders submit complaint to European public bank
OT Watch / CEE Bankwatch Network / London Mining Network / urgewald press release 4 July 2013 Ulaanbaatar - A group of Mongolian herders submitted today an official complaint to the Project Complaints Mechanism of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development...
Saami Communities attend Beowulf's AGM in London
Saami Council Press Release, 4 July 2013 Today the Saami communites of Sirges and Jåhkågasska attend Beowulf Plc AGM in London in order to reiterate that they do not accept the company’s exploration and mining activities in Gállok (Kallak), in Jokkmokk, Sweden; an...
UK Parliamentary Committee announces inquiry into extractives sector
On 3 July, the UK Parliament's Select Committee on Business Innovation and Skills, which monitors the work of the Department for Business Innovation and Skills, officially announced the inquiry into the extractives sector which had been trailed by Committee Chair...
Hackers attack LMN website!
Our website has been under repeated attack for nearly two weeks. Our web support have reinforced the site's security, but one result of the attacks has been that the site has been 'blacklisted' by Google. This means that if visit our site, you are likely to receive a...
GCM announces new board of directors after financial loss
Protest against GCM's Phulbari project The London-based GCM Resources Plc (formerly Asia Energy) has announced the formation of a new board of directors headed by Polo Resources Limited Managing Director Michael Tang. The change in the board of directors has been made...