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Australian Greens Leader wants inquiry into undersea mining
Australian Greens Leader, Senator Bob Brown, has returned from Papua New Guinea vowing to push for an Australian Senate inquiry into the impact of undersea mining. PNG is home to the world's first deep sea mining project. It's owned by the Canadian firm Nautilus...
China's iron will alone is not enough
The Chinese regime wants to develop two or three new iron mines with a capacity of more than 100 million tonnes a year; several more with a capacity of about 30 million tonnes a year; and a raft of smaller projects, each producing a few million tonnes. The government...
Act now on company openness
Zambia’s people are blessed with copper. Yet with one doctor per 10,000 people and life expectancy a mere 47 years, who’s benefitting from the wealth beneath their feet? As with countless countries around the world that have a wealth of natural resources, Zambia’s...
Renewables can fuel society, say world climate advisers
Renewable technologies could supply 80% of the world's energy needs by mid-century, says the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). In a report, it says that almost half of current investment in electricity generation is going into renewables. But growth...
Chernobyl Catastrophe: 25th Anniversary of World’s Worst Nuclear Accident
Fukushima, Chernobyl Raise Questions about WHO's Role The nuclear disaster in Fukushima, Japan and the 25th anniversary of the catastrophe in the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine have thrown into relief contradictions in the role played by the World Health...
Friends of the Earth International joins protests against Barrick Gold
During the annual general meeting (AGM) of mining company Barrick Gold in Toronto (Canada), on 27 April, Friends of the Earth International supported a loud call from communities around the world for a halt to gold mining and Barrick Gold's destructive practices....
HudBay loses out to Mayan community in Guatemala
Guatemala's highest court has made a precedent-setting decision in favor of a small Maya Q'eqchi' indigenous community of Agua Caliente in Izabal province, by recognising their right to land that is occupied by Canada's HudBay mining company. Since 2004, when nickel...
Indian Supreme Court gives Vedanta a month on Niyamgiri
The Supreme Court has given a month’s time to the Centre, the Orissa government and UK-based Vedanta’s Indian arm Sterlite Industries on the challenge made by the state’s mining corporation to the cancellation of environmental clearance to Niyamgiri Bauxite Mining...
Displacing People For Profit: Obama Administration Supports Controversial Coal Project in Bangladesh
Why is the Obama administration covertly pushing for London-based GCM Resources' internationally opposed open-pit coal mine operation in Bangladesh? See http://www.alternet.org/environment/150729/
Mining to Undermine Access to Land in Africa
Abdulai Darimani urges a shift from aid-driven approaches to Africa's economic development to a transformative agenda forged by concerted social action. Otherwise, he says, Africans will fail to escape from persistent exploitation. See...