Colombia halts mining multinationals in indigenous territory
A judge has suspended all activities by mining companies in nearly 50,000 hectares of indigenous lands in northwest Colombia, reported local media. In an “unprecedented” ruling, all mining and exploration activities in 49,421 acres of territories belonging...The Colombian mining locomotive has halted
President Santos of Colombia continues to preach the virtues of what he calls the “mining locomotive” of the economy, based mainly on coal, nickel and gold. But this is met with resistance. In El Cesar (northeast Colombia) in February 2012 a protest – due to the...POSCO’s fading Indian dream
A few weather-beaten shipping containers, a swathe of sand and a bitterly divided village: that is all South Korea’s POSCO has to show seven years after it announced plans for a $12 billion steel mill on a fertile strip of India’s east coast. Recently, the...Nuclear news
Sellafield clean-up cost reaches £67.5bn, says report The cost of cleaning up the Sellafield nuclear waste site has reached £67.5bn with no sign of when the cost will stop rising, according to a report. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-21298117 We...Europe says NO to tar sands
Protesters in Europe want to stop tarsands oil coming from Canada through the KXL pipeline to the Gulf of Mexico. Help by signing the petition – click on image for more.