Twenty Santas delivered a tonne of coal on a dumper truck to ‘the world’s naughty bank’ HSBC at Moorgate in the City of London this morning to highlight the bank’s massive financing of fossil fuels and to call on it to pull out of coal, the fuel most damaging to the...
A police officer takes aim at an indigenous woman protesting GX’s Tintaya mine in Espinar, Peru, May 2012. Photo: Miguel Gutierrez Stephanie Boyd on why she thinks the mega-miner should win Public Eye’s competition. See...
India’s biggest mining magnate has now adopted the mantle of an agonised aunt. Mr Anil Agarwal is bemoaning the fact that, having been denied the opportunity to grab bauxite from Orissa’s Nyamgiri Hills earlier this year, Vedanta’s alumininum...
Vedanta’s sister company Sesa Goa has openly flouted the 10 sq km limit area for mining set under the Mines and Minerals Regulation development (MMRD) Act. Despite having permission to export only 76 lakh (7,600,000) tonnes of iron ore in Goa, it exported ore worth...
A tank containing up to a million litres of uranium ore and acid spilled contaminated slurry. Photo: Gundjeihmi Aboriginal Corp. In Australia, the Greens are calling for a permanent end to operations at the Ranger uranium mine in the Northern Territory after a...
