Phulbari’s fertile farmlands are Bangladesh’s rice bowl. (Photo courtesy of JACSES) British company GCM Resources was dealt a serious blow today as the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) agreed to consider complaints regarding...
Badapada: displaced women and children imprisoned for a month by Vedanta and police This report, directly from a Foil Vedanta team on the ground in Niyamgiri, tells a shocking story of the month long imprisonment of a group of Dalit women and children displaced by...
The independent U.K.-based shareholders’ advisory body PIRC said late Tuesday it is unable to support the approval of Indonesian coal miner Bumi PLC’s annual report and accounts at next week’s annual shareholders meeting. The firm, which represents a...
New research says mining emissions are a cause of lead poisoning in children in Mount Isa in north-west Queensland, Australia. The research, published on 17 June in the peer-reviewed journal Environmental Pollution, has found lead levels in dust from Xstrata’s...
Glencore Xstrata has signed a new $17.3 billion revolving credit facility, to replace the pre-merger credit of Glencore and Xstrata and provide working capital. The facilities were initially launched at $12 billion and were substantially oversubscribed, the...
London-listed Standard Chartered is among banks helping to finance at least eight destructive ‘dodgy deals’ around the world. The projects, which campaigners are fighting to reverse, include the extraction of Canada’s vast tar sands, risky oil drilling in the Arctic...
