Dozens of student demonstrators pelted the office of Newmont Nusa Tenggara (NNT) after a court ruling allowing the US company to continue dumping tailings in a nearby bay. A year ago, several environmental organisations urged the government to ban the practice. They...
The state government of Odisha (Orissa) in India has initiated the process of withdrawal of notifications for acquisition of 438 acres of private land in seven villages in the project site near Paradip. The recent verdict of Odisha High Court would compel the state...
Air pollution is prematurely killing 13,000 people a year in Britain compared with fewer than 2,000 deaths a year from road accidents, a major study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has concluded. Of these, cars and lorries are thought to be responsible...
Fuel companies say drilling for shale gas is safe, clean and could meet our energy needs for 100 years. So why are people so worried about earthquakes and pollution? See http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/apr/17/whats-the-truth-about-fracking.
Billionaire Robert Friedland resigned as chief executive officer of Ivanhoe Mines Ltd. (IVN) as the company struck a deal with its majority shareholder Rio Tinto Group (RIO) on funding for its $6 billion Mongolian copper mine. See...
Buried in the Gobi Desert, Mongolia’s economic future rests on a massive mining project called Turquoise Hill. Known locally as Oyu Tolgoi, the copper and gold mine, co-owned by Vancouver-based Ivanhoe Mines Ltd. and the Mongolian government, is expected to balloon...
