EU antitrust regulators have told trader Glencore to offer concessions in its zinc operations to ease concerns about its planned $33 billion buy of miner Xstrata, a person familiar with the matter said recently. The European Commission, which handles competition...
Tar sands ‘dirty oil’ could soon be coming to the UK A new report published by the UK Tar Sands Network, Corporate Watch and Pembrokeshire Friends of the Earth reveals that US energy company Valero is expecting to bring increasing quantities of oil derived from the...
Britain could soon launch a new round of licensing for shale gas exploration, pending information from the country’s most advanced shale gas company and tighter regulation, Britain’s Energy Minister said on Tuesday. The government last year put a temporary...
Scenes of unspeakable violence took place in the northern Greek region of Chalkidiki last week. Hundreds of protesters from Chalkidiki, Thessaloniki and other Northern Greece regions gathered in the famous Skouries forest to protest against the government plans to...
ABG’s plan to open mine criticised The Autonomous Bougainville Government’s mission to fast-track the re-opening of the Panguna Mine (owned by Rio Tinto subsidiary BCL) in Central Bougainville is now drawing criticisms from many people on the island. One of those who...
The Australian Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) said Tuesday that Rio Tinto’s redundancy package for its Blair Athol coal mine discriminates against union members. The mine, near Clermont in Central Queensland, is closing down in less than...
