On 10 November 2013 an international anti-mining protest was held outside the UK Houses of Parliament in solidarity with all communities affected by mining worldwide. The protest was organised by the Save Rosia Montana UK support group with the participation and...
A coalition of NGOs is mounting a legal challenge to the world’s first license to operate a deep sea mine in Papua New Guinea. The license was granted under the former Somare government to the Canadian company Nautilus for its Solwara 1 mine. London-listed Anglo...
The land swap bill implies that more than 5,000 acres of high-value Arizona conservation lands – including endangered species, sensitive ecosystems, recreational sites and historic landmarks – will be protected. Rio Tinto and BHP’s plans to build North America’s...
Should Australia treble its aid to Bougainville to prevent violence? To do so would likely create further distrust. It was Australia that fuelled the violence in the first place, writes Kristian Lasslett. The Bougainville war was sparked when landowners shut the Rio...
The London Metal Exchange (LME) is a defendant in the lawsuits accusing Goldman, JPMorgan and Glencore Xstrata of rigging the aluminium market and violating anti-trust laws. In the mid-1990s the LME was embroiled in a criminal investigation after the discovery that a...
As ministers gather in Warsaw this week for the UN’s latest round of intergovernmental negotiations on climate change, and the Philippines reels from the strongest storm ever recorded, officials at BHP Billiton, the world’s largest mining company, is...
