Rock band Manic Street Preachers are backing next month’s unveiling of Wales’ national mining memorial and the commemoration marking the centenary of the Senghenydd mining disaster. The explosion at the Universal Colliery on 14 October 1913, is the...
Communities affected by opencast mines have called on the government to act after it was revealed that the shortfall in funds for cleaning up abandoned mines in East Ayrshire has more than doubled. See...
LAON press release, 14/9/13 “How is it that an opencast coal site, which when first worked in 1955, is worked for 40 years and over 34m tonnes of coal is extracted. Then it’s left derelict, is then considered as a landfill site amongst other uses, with another...
The Geneva home of Beny Steinmetz, the billionaire natural-resources investor who is Israel’s richest person, was raided by Swiss police, according to a person familiar with the matter. The raid was ordered by Geneva’s public prosecutor following a request...
An estimated 100 employees and contractors were evacuated from Rio Tinto’s Bingham Canyon copper mine in Utah, US, after the site was affected for a small landslide, the second this year in the same area. See...
Former Bougainville Revolutionary Army Commander, Sam Kauona, says the 10-year bloody conflict, which claimed the lives of many Bougainvilleans, Papua New Guineans and Solomon Islanders, was the result of colonialism. He demands that current laws on Bougainville be...
