Once again it seems that one of the world’s leading mining companies – despite claiming to uphold the rule of law and protection of democracy – is putting profits before ethics. Following a “palace” coup last month, the new...
“This is the government we have – everything for miners and bullets for the people!” So commented Gregorio Santos, leftwing leader of Peru’s Cajamarca province, in a rebuke last week to the country’s president Humala. See...
The Lizards Revenge: Communique Monday 9th July 2012 The Lizards Revenge music and arts festival and protest camp will take place at the gates of the Olympic Dam mine (or close by) from the 14th-18th July 2012. The festival will include a variety of musicians, bands...
Japan panel: Fukushima nuclear disaster ‘man-made’ The crisis at the Fukushima nuclear plant was “a profoundly man-made disaster”, a Japanese parliamentary panel has said in a report. See http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-18718057. Nuclear...
Activists who oppose BP’s sponsorship of the gallery carried a one and a half tonne blade across Millennium bridge. See http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/jul/07/protesters-turbine-blade-tate-modern?newsfeed=true.
London-based GCM Resources Plc is so desperate to open a huge opencast mine at Phulbari in Bangladesh that it has offered a 30% stake in the company to the government of Bangladesh, in return for open-pit commercial exploration of the Phulbari coal mine. Sources at...
