Amnesty International’s Swiss branch has produced an urgent action, available at http://ua.amnesty.ch/urgent-actions/2012/06/156-12/ua-156-12-english. Please send letters, emails or faxes to arrive as soon as possible.
At least two people dead and more than 100 injured – this is the way Xstrata does ‘community relations’ in Peru. Meanwhile the mining company’s boss Mick Davis is tipped for a $78 million pre-merger bonus. Stephanie Boyd reports from Cuzco, Peru. See...
A new World Bank report confirms that an IFC-backed South African coal-fired power plant threatens water quality and other environmental depredation, as objectors have long argued. See http://www.minesandcommunities.org/11730. But the agency refuses to withdraw a...
An Argentinian government body has released initial results of its national glacier inventory, showing that many of the country’s mining projects sit in glacier-rich areas and may, therefore, be a threat to the country’s future water supply. Among...
Government should consider a freeze on mining in Naxal-hit areas, tribal affairs minister V Kishore Chandra Deo has said. Deo clarified that he was not against the industry or economic development, but unresolved land rights and mining were principle causes of...
I’ve recently seen a few articles that claim that historically low coal consumption in the United States doesn’t mean much because dramatic growth in global coal consumption is inevitable. Assertions like these rely on mind-boggling (and admittedly scary)...
