Indonesia’s ambitious plans to boost coal production and exports from Kalimantan are ill-advised and not worth the environmental and social cost, according to a key report from Greenpeace. In the “Point of No Return” report, the environmental group said the Indonesian...
Analysis and reflection by Bishop Jo Seoka, Chairman of the Bench Marks Foundation “Whatever happens, the country can ill afford any job losses and sustainable solutions need to be found that not only consider shareholder returns, but workers, communities and...
Policemen’s footage – taken with cellphones as they made their way towards the centre of the infamous Small Koppie at Marikana on 16 August last year – shows the extent of the killings there. The recorded voices of the police and the positions of the prone...
Already buckling under huge operational costs and seemingly endless labour unrest, some 30 gold mine operators were last month slapped with litigation by thousands of their former employees. The plaintiffs — mostly black migrant labourer — allegedly contracted the...
It was hard to see any upside to ex-Tropical Cyclone Oswald’s prolonged battering of Queensland last week. Yet the swollen Fitzroy River now overrunning Rockhampton provided Bowen Basin miners with the perfect window of opportunity to drain long-stored waters...
Following years of denial, Barrick Gold is implementing a remedy program for victims of rape by employees of its Porgera Joint Venture (PJV) mine in Papua New Guinea (PNG). In order to receive a remedy package, women must enter into an agreement in which “the...
