Not once, not twice, but three times in a week! On 17th July 2012, the leading Oriya language news daily, Samaja, reported that the company had illegally dumped fly (coal) ash and excavated soil onto forest land at its Jharsaguda aluminium smelting complex in Orissa....
BHP Billiton’s gigantic Olympic Dam copper-uranium mine in South Australia has long been a focus of strident protests. Legal action has been taken by local Arabunna elder, ‘Uncle’ Kevin Buzzacott, to halt expansion of the mine, which the company aims...
In a report released last week, Asset laundering and AIM: Congo, corporate misconduct and the market value of human rights, the business and human rights organisation Rights and Accountability in Development (RAID) catalogues the inadequacies of the London Stock...
Anglo American South Africa Ltd (AASA) has been ordered by a UK High Court judge to disclose an array of documents to ex-gold miners who are suing AASA for silicosis in a mass action in the UK High Court. See...
Peru has brokered a deal between the regional government of Moquegua and Anglo American to allow the global firm to build its $3 billion Quellaveco copper mine. Anglo American will make voluntary payments to communities near the mine of some $370 million during the...
Ollanta Humala was sworn in as Peru’s president on July 28, 2011, promising to foment dialogue to resolve the social conflicts prevalent throughout the country. In his inaugural speech, he said that “the excessive increase of conflicts, many of them absurdly violent,...
