The National Congress of Australia’s First Peoples organised a forum to review relations with Australian Indigenous Peoples and the extractive industries. Among the companies represented were Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton. See...
The final fate of BHP Billiton’s Olympic Dam mine expansion remains fraught with uncertainty in the wake of the company’s announcement last week that it was shelving the project due to cost factors. See...
A delegation of Canadian parliamentarians was to meet recently with Guatemala’s Legislative Committee for Energy and Mines. The President of the Legislative Commission said: “We will have a chance to meet them in the afternoon to discuss various positions...
The recent historic announcement by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) implementing Section 1504 of the Dodd Frank Act is of huge importance for women and men in developing countries. After tireless campaigning, some of the world’s poorest people will now...
Marikana mine strike: South Africa court frees miners About 50 South African miners have been freed after murder charges against them, relating to the deaths of 34 miners shot by police, were dropped. Prosecutors decided to provisionally set aside charges against 270...
