A new study reveals that governments in Latin America have returned to natural resources extraction to fuel development—while paying scant attention to the impact mining, oil exploration and other activities have on the environment or on the people who own the land....
Earlier this month, a fact-finding mission went to the Porgera mine in Papua New Guinea. It concluded that Barrick’s project-level non-judicial grievance mechanism is both seriously flawed and divests indigenous rape victims of their right to take legal action against...
South African miner Shanduka Coal has reported that an unwarranted strike at the Graspan colliery east of Johannesburg, turned violent leaving seven people injured. The mine is partly owned by Glencore and witnessed nearly 250 protestors who seized mining equipments...
Papua New Guinea’s Minister for Environment and Conservation, John Pundari, broke his silence on the Ok Tedi mining pollution issue, describing it as a “curse” on the Fly River people of Western province. He says he plans a visit to all impacted...
Earlier this month Greenlanders voted in a new government. How will it now meet the challenge of having an apparent wealth of natural mineral resources – yet also one of the most fragile environments on earth? The tiny population of Greenland has sent a...
Radioactive Y-fronts and the limits of Parliamentary scrutiny Last week the nuclear industry and its Westminster friends celebrated the dawning of a new age, as French energy giant EDF won planning consent to construct Hinkley Point C in Somerset. Meanwhile, in...
