Monday 29th July 2013. This morning the seventh village – Phuldumer – again voted unanimously to reject Vedanta’s mine. This means the majority have now spoken, and Niyamgiri is saved by the people’s vote as sanctioned by the Supreme Court of India! In Odisha...
Photo: Henrik Blind Press release from National Swedish Sami Association Today Swedish police arrived in numbers at Gállok, Jokkmokk, Sweden to forcefully remove a group of peaceful protesters. The activists are taking a stand against Beowulf Mining PLC and its...
Who’s winning the war over coal? There are signs that those who dig up and utilise the black stuff are finally not getting it all their own way. President Obama recently promised an end to public financing of the sector, and the US Export-Import Bank has voted...
These days it seems as though just about every enterprise, from the corner store to multinational investment firms, is pursuing sustainability. Exactly what that means varies, but definitions seem to more or less be about meeting current needs (and wants) in a way...
…and London Metal Exchange is right at its centre Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, and other investment banks have for years manipulated the price of metal commodities, to boost their own profits. The cost of their perfidy, in terms of exiguous...
South Africa’s gold mining companies have offered a derisory 4% wage increase to their workers – one coming nowhere close to meeting trade unionists’ demands. Meanwhile, threatened with further strikes by the “dissident” Association of...
