One week after its creation, IndustriALL Global Union announced its intention to shine a light on Rio Tinto’s unethical behaviour around the world, starting with the release of a report on the company’s operations in Africa. See...
Protesters take to the stage at Roundhouse over BP Olympics sponsorship On 27 June, members of the “Reclaim Shakespeare Company” jumped on stage and performed an anti-BP “guerrilla Shakespeare” skit in front of a theatre audience that included many BP employees. See...
London (AIM)-listed Coal of Africa Limited (CoAL) said last Wednesday that it would, in consultation with the Department of Environmental Affairs (DEA), consider the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) report and its...
The report on fracking released on 29 June by the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAE) & the Royal Society omits a key consideration: the RAE’s ex-President is Lord Browne, Chairman of Cuadrilla, the UK’s leading fracker. See...
Hong Kong’s stock exchange operator said its $2.2 billion offer is the preferred bid for the London Metal Exchange. A takeover of the LME, which handles some 80% of global trade in metals futures, will help Hong Kong diversify out of its slow-growing equities business...
An Arabunna elder has returned to the Federal Court to tell “a good story” in his bid to block the $30 billion expansion of the Olympic Dam copper, uranium and gold mine in South Australia’s north. See...
