At last, after all the waiting, the Executive Order (EO) on mining has been released by the Office of the President in the Philippines. As predicted, the Order has been greeted with cries of protest, mostly from environmental and peoples’ organisations. The...
As the dust began to fall over Mongolia’s elections last month, the free-market advocate, Tsakhia Elbedgorj, lost his post as president, and the majority of parliamentary seats went to the Democratic party. Whether this party, along with another grouping led by...
The Tanzanian Government’s Energy and Minerals Ministry will soon meet with London-listed African Barrick Gold (ABG) management to find lasting solutions on recurrent conflicts between the company and the local communities surrounding North Mara Gold Mine. ABG...
Global carbon dioxide emissions rose 3 percent to 34 billion tonnes in 2011, according to a new EU report, undermining a U.N. goal to limit the rise in global average temperatures to 2C above industrial levels by 2050. See...
The new mining strategy of the EBRD (the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development) risks contradicting the EU Resource Efficiency Roadmap and responsible mining principles, argue 22 MEPs in an open letter to European Commissioners which asks the EC to take a...
