A new report from Platform and the Algeria Solidarity Campaign has criticised the role of oil and gas companies and the UK in financing the military dictatorship in Algeria that has quashed democratic dissent for many decades. In a 2013 report, Amnesty International...
BHP Billiton has been involved with the Inga 3 Dam in the Democratic Republic of Congo in the hope of obtaining electricity for an aluminium smelter. For background to Peter Bosshard’s blog below, see Africa’s Energy Future – Down a Dark Tunnel, NGOs...
This is a really touching animated presentation, with accompanying text, about gold mining at Rosia Montana in Romania and the struggle against Canadian company Gabriel Resources (whose Romanian subsidiary has offices in London) and an appeal for funds to fight the...
Please take a look at this video about a successful campaign waged by a group of young activists in Chile called Chao Pescao against the Barrancones coal plant. They made a video and started a social media campaign that went viral, got lots of celebrities involved,...
Photo: Survival International Mining is often presnted as ‘development’. But who really benefits from such development? Our friends at Survival International have just released a short animated film which torpedoes the myth that imposing...
Nuclear power is sometimes presented as though it were clean, or a benign way of tackling climate change. There is a lot of information on our website about why this is not so. And here’s a video where Native American Lakota and Dine people talk about the...
