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Greens want crackdown on overseas Aussie miners
Australia's Greens Party is going to push for legislation preventing Australian mining companies from engaging in environmental practices overseas that they couldn't do at home. This would affect, among others, BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto, both joint-listed in London...
Australia's boomtown curse
An Al Jazeera report on the costs in Australia's mining boom See http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/101east/2011/08/20118284435996818.html.
Need for cleaner tech for coal power
Bangladesh needs to adopt cleaner technology to harness power from coal so as not to aggravate the climate change situation in the country, according to a visiting UK official. Speaking in an interview with few journalists, John Ashton, special representative for the...
Nuclear news
Japan’s Fukushima catastrophe brings big radiation spikes to British Columbia “There have been massive radiation spikes in Canada because of Fukushima,” said Gordon Edwards, president of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility. “The authorities don’t want...
UK groups call on UN to call UK Government to book over corporate racism
Submissions to the UN Committee on the Elimination of all forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD) 79th Session with regard to the United Kingdom’s responsibility to ensure respect for the rights of Indigenous Peoples overseas in the context of UK transnational...
Colombia raises doubts on AngloGold's La Colosa gold project
Doubts have been raised in Colombia about possible adverse environmental issues in relation to AngloGold Ashanti's big La Colosa gold project See http://www.mineweb.com/mineweb/view/mineweb/en/page103118?oid=132411&sn=Detail&pid=92730. Colombia's comptroller...
Another report says Barrick Gold damaged glaciers in Pascua Lama-Veladero
In a report published on July 19, the Argentine branch of the environmental group Greenpeace charged that operations by the Toronto-based Barrick Gold Corporation in the Andes at the border with Chile had already significantly damaged three small glaciers. Citing a...
Xstrata bidding for Canadian coal explorer
Miner Xstrata has made an all-cash bid for privately held Canadian miner First Coal Corporation, it said on Thursday, with an offer valuing the firm at $153 million. Xstrata, the fourth largest global diversified miner, said the board of First Coal had unanimously...
Anglo American pushes back Quellaveco approval to 2012
London-based Anglo American has delayed board approval for its Quellaveco copper project in southern Peru's Moquegua region as it is still waiting for water permits to be granted. See...
CAFOD warns government: Do not end legal protection for victims of UK multinationals
New laws will make it impossible for people in poor countries to seek justice in British courts for human rights breaches by UK multinationals. See http://www.cafod.org.uk/news/international-news/no-to-legal-aid-bill-2011-07-21.