Supreme Court fines Sterlite for polluting but sets aside High Court Order Imposing a record penalty on a company for polluting the environment, the Supreme Court Tuesday ordered Sterlite Industries, a subsidiary of Britain-based Vedanta Group, to pay Rs 100 crore as...
London-based GCM Resources Plc has appointed a Malaysian ‘lobbyist’ to get the approval of the government of Bangladesh for exploration of the Phulbari coalmine. The company had failed to get approval from the relevant authorities to exploit the coalmine...
Brazil environmental watchdog charges Anglo American with a $10m fine over port accident The environmental regulator in Brazil’s northern Amapa state (Imap) has fined Anglo American with a $10 million (20m Brazilian reais) fine over last week’s accident...
BHP Billiton expects South African power utility Eskom to honour deals that are letting the mining giant buy electricity for its smelters at just over half the cost of production, the company said on Wednesday. Eskom, which needs to generate cash to build new power...
In May 2010, the world’s largest mining company, BHP-Billiton, was accused of bribing the Cambodian government four years earlier, by shelling out US$3.5 million which never appeared on government books – and didn’t result in any benefit to the...
Loose Anti Opencast Network (LAON) press release, 2 April 2013 Since this Government was elected, its attitude to opencast mine applications in England has, from the point of view of objectors, gone from bad to worse. Firstly we had the imposition of the new National...
