London-listed BHP Billiton, the world’s biggest mining firm, says that extreme weather caused by climate change is already impacting some of its assets, thus forcing the company to re-evaluate its investments in the coal sector. Speaking to investors and analysts on...
Press release from Global Witness The reported decision of the IMF to halt funding should highlight the need for the Congolese state to ensure its natural resources are sold by public tender. London-listed Glencore and ENRC should take stock of the corruption fears...
Loose Anti Open Cast Network press release, 5 December 2012 The Loose Anti Opencast Network is broadly in favour of the intention of the Energy Bill to reduce the reliance on coal in the UK‘s energy mix, as this will reduce the need for new surface mine sites in the...
Rio Tinto’s Oyu Tolgoi copper-gold mine in the southern Gobi desert in Mongolia has become a symbol of a looming crisis: a limited water supply that could be exhausted within a decade, seriously threatening the lives and livelihoods of the local population. See...
To commemorate the 70th anniversary of the first sustained nuclear chain reaction “A Mountain of Waste Seventy Years High” nuclear symposium was held at the University of Chicago December 1 and 2, 2012. The first sustained nuclear chain reaction occurred...
South Africa’s government-allied mining union has lost up to 20,000 members since the start of 2012, a year marked by painful strikes and loss of life, the union’s leader said recently. The exodus from the once-dominant National Union of Mineworkers began...
