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Human rights violations continue in Ghana's mining sector
International humanitarian organization Oxfam America calls on Ghana’s government to address ongoing human rights violations in the West African nation's mining industry. The call to action comes after 23-year old Kwame Eric was shot to death August 10 by an employee...
Australia Passes CO2 Offset Laws, Carbon Pricing Next
Australia's parliament endorsed the world's first national scheme that regulates the creation and trade of carbon credits from farming and forestry on Monday, to complement government plans to put a price on carbon emissions from mid-2012. This will affect, among...
Who will own South Africa's mines?
Radical elements within South Africa's ruling ANC have been campaigning for outright nationalisation of the country's mines. In part-response, Mines' Minister Susan Shabangu, claims that securing a 26% "black ownership" (BEE) of the mining industry as a whole will be...
Vedanta guilty of violations at Indian copper smelter: Supreme Court orders pollution control measures
In October last year, the Madras High Court ordered Sterlite Industries - a subsidiary of UK-listed Vedanta Resources - to cease operating its Tuticorin (Thoothukudi) copper smelter in Tamil Nadu. Local citizen environmentalists had provided compelling evidence that...
Amnesty International refutes Vedanta's claims
In July 2011, Amnesty International issued a report, “Generalisations, omissions, assumptions: The failings of Vedanta’s Environmental Impact Assessments for its bauxite mine and alumina refinery in India’s state of Orissa”. The Business & Human Rights Resource...
Why BHP Billiton must never expand Olympic Dam uranium mine
Twelve minute video on the dangers of uranium mining and radiation exposure and the particular hazards posed by BHP Billiton's planned expansion of uranium mining in South Australia. A decision on expansion is to be made in September. See...
Anglo, BHP, Xstrata OK $1.3 bln Cerrejon expansion
Anglo American , Xstrata and BHP Billiton have approved a $1.3 billion expansion of Colombia's largest coal mining operations, Cerrejon, the companies said on Thursday. Cerrejon is the largest coal producer and exporter in Colombia, the world's No. 4 exporter of the...
Creation of civic committee of La Guajira against large transnational mining
The department of La Guajira is the largest coal producer in the Colombia. The mining complex of El Cerrejón is the largest open pit coal mine in Latin America and accounts for 46% of Colombia's total coal exports. The sales of coal produce an income of approximately...
Vedanta named in expose of mining corruption in India
One of the worst-ever examples of mining-related corruption has been exposed in the Indian state of Karnataka. There have been numerous breaches of law by many companies - including Vedanta Resources. See http://www.minesandcommunities.org/article.php?a=11110&l=1....
Tar sands news
Why a First Nations student from British Columbia is taking on a controversial trans-Canadian pipeline project—through song http://www.yesmagazine.org/happiness/what-a-10-year-old-did-for-the-tar-sands?fb_ref=likebutton&fb_source=home_oneline Civil Disobedience...