John McDonnell MP and others have signed a new Early Day Motion (EDM) in support of the Greenwash Gold Campaign. An EDM is like a petition by Members of Parliament, testing the strength of opinion about a particular issue. If you live in the UK, please contact your MP...
Philippines: Executive disorder – the wait continues… The ongoing saga surrounding the long-delayed Presidential Executive Order on mining continues to – well, ‘go on’. Despite a flurry of press stories predicting its imminent arrival, at...
Peru’s great transformation – backwards Numerous social conflicts, especially over mining; arbitrary arrests of opponents; and the suspension of human rights, have followed in the wake of Ollanta Humala’s election as Peru’s president a year...
As Glencore fumes at the state takeover of its relatively-small Colquiri zinc-tin operation, one Bolivian expert says the government isn’t aiming to nationalise larger mines, “because it doesn’t have the ability to take charge of them”. See...
Colombia’s environmental licensing authority has rejected requests to modify permits for coal expansion projects including at top producers Drummond Co and Glencore International’s Prodeco unit over pollution worries, the body said. Colombia’s top...
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer is a leading UK-based law firm which, apart from being main legal advisor for the London 2012 Olympic Games organising committee, in February 2009 was appointed by Xstrata to handled its rights issue as the UK-Swiss company attempted to...
