The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) is expanding its campaign against a proposed Alaskan mine that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) says would damage a thriving sockeye salmon population. The NRDC launched a six-figure advertising effort Monday that...
Large mining companies must take responsibility for their activities in Mozambique, and that includes giving back to local communities. Mozambique Mineral Resources Minister Esperanca Bias said her country needed to properly benefit from extractive industries. This...
Riot police squads blocked the main access to the mountain so that Hellas Gold, a subsidiary of Vancouver’s Eldorado Gold, could continue clearing the forest in preparation of the Skouries open-pit mine and related facilities. Eldorado’s shares are traded...
India’s National Green Tribunal was to decide whether UK-listed Vedanta can re-open its Tuticorin copper smelter in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. The plant has been shut since March, following toxic leaks which a growing body of residents allege have...
It was a “scam and a half”. Last year, a hundred Indian companies were revealed to have profited by US$210 billion from gaining control of domestic coal deposits, without their being offered for tender. Now, renowned Delhi-based research journalist,...
UK-listed Vedanta shouldn’t have acquired Cairn India and its lucrative share of Rajasthan’s oil fields, without their first being offered to the state oil company ONGC. So declared India’s Supreme Court. However, the court confessed it was...
