The Campaign Against Foreign Control of Aotearoa (CAFCA) declared its solidarity with the Canadian members of the United Steelworkers Union visiting New Zealand last week to gain support for their struggle against contracting out by their employer, Rio Tinto Alcan. ...
“Over the last ten years I’ve heard an incredible amount of nonsense from people championing carbon capture and storage (CCS), a.k.a. clean coal. This was usually because those pushing the technology actually had no genuine commercial interest in seeing it...
Global greenhouse gas emissions could rise 50 percent by 2050 without more ambitious climate policies, as fossil fuels continue to dominate the energy mix, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said on Thursday. See...
Stop the moose abuse! http://www.no-tar-sands.org/2012/03/stop-the-moose-abuse/ Vigil over Canada’s tar sands lobbying unexpectedly turns into full-blown protest http://www.no-tar-sands.org/2012/03/2528/ UK complicit in Canadian...
A leaked email reveals that BHP Billiton never intended to negotiate new work practices with Australia’s leading mineworkers union. This is despite the world’s biggest mining company having previously committed itself to such negotiations, as strikes...
The two largest foreign-owned mining companies operating in Indonesia have brushed off “threats”, posed by a recent government announcement that they must increase domestic ownership in the country’s mineral resources. At present it doesn’t...
