At a high-level conference on climate change at Chatham House, London, two activists interrupted first Peter Kent, Canada’s Environment Minister, then Shell’s UK Chairman Graham van’t Hoff, as they got up to make speeches. The conference attendees included EU Climate...
Mongolian MP N Batbayar says that the OyuTolgoi budget exceeded what was first planned and it means that the Mongolian foreign debt has increased. Oyu Tolgoi is operated by Rio Tinto. See http://english.news.mn/content/122449.shtml.
Following the accusations, recriminations and resignations surrounding Bumi plc and consequent calls by financial commentators for better regulation by the London listing authorities, activists and NGOs are calling on the government to explain to the UK investing...
A group of Mongolian goat and camel herdsmen are taking on global mining giant Rio Tinto, claiming one of its mines – which produced gold for Olympic medals – have driven them off their ancestral plains. The herders are demanding ‘just compensation’ for the impact of...
Rio Tinto bought in to the Oyu Tolgoi [or Turquoise Hill] copper-gold and coal project at the time when the first herders were moved out of their traditional pastures, with only money compensation offered, with the result that 50% of those evicted effectively had...
Influential Indonesian family the Bakries have called on financier Nat Rothschild to give up his 12 per cent shareholding in miner Bumi, worth more than £41m. See http://www.cityam.com/latest-news/rothschild-told-give-40m.
