BHP’s decision to use a 100% fly-in fly-out (FIFO) workforce at its Australian Bowen Basin coal mines, instead of hiring from the local community, is generating fierce opposition in Central Queensland. According to the CFMEU, Australia’s main trade union including...
Protest against Pascua Lama. Source: Miningwatch Canada The world’s biggest gold mining corporation, Barrick Gold, has been served a US$16.4 fine and told to halt operations at its Pascua Lama project until it takes measures to prevent water contamination. While...
“Outrageously the Government has appointed…Newmont’s former public relations green washing expert, as the National Manager of Minerals…in charge of issuing mining permits throughout the country. ” So comments the Coromandel Watchdog,...
“Mining for development”? It’s bonkers, claim NGOs. Australian Aid watchdog AID/WATCH and environmental organisation Friends of the Earth (FoE) held a demonstration at AusAID’s Mining for Development Conference in Sydney, to assert that aid...
The ICMM is a body made up of 22 mining companies. Commentary by Emily Greenspan of Oxfam America: “Last week the International Council of Metals and Mining (ICMM) released a new mining and indigenous peoples position statement requiring its 22 member companies...
It’s almost certainly the worst officially-recorded mining disaster in recent Indonesian history. On Tuesday, 21 May 2013, twenty eight mineworker were confirmed dead as the result of a tunnel collapse at Freeport’s Grasberg operations in Papua during the...
