Though considerably overshadowed by the Commonwealth’s official “Remembrance Day” on Friday 11 November, last week saw another significant Day to Remember. Sixteen years after environmental justice campaigner Ken Saro Wiwa was judicially murdered by...
Following recent attempts to militarise mine sites, and associated killings, there has been a plethora of news stories on Philippines mining issues. There is more fall-out from the murder of Fr. Fausto ‘Pops’ Tentorio, as the investigators pursue...
It was supposed to be a union of two legendary business dynasties, one West, one East. Nathaniel Philip Rothshild, the 40-year-old scion of the storied European banking family, forged a deal a year ago with the Bakrie brothers, one of Indonesia’s mightiest...
Nineteen climate vulnerable countries have signed the Climate Vulnerable Forum 2011 Dhaka Declaration: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Costa Rica, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Kiribati, Madagascar, Maldives, Nepal, Philippines, Rwanda, Saint Lucia, Tanzania, Timor-Leste,...
Obama delays the Keystone XL tarsands oil pipeline decision for over a year. See http://www.no-tar-sands.org/2011/11/pipe-dreams-keystone-delayed-until-2013/.
The miners are still cashing in on higher commodity prices, but rising energy and labour costs are starting to hurt. That was the message delivered with results from metals behemoths Vedanta Resources and ENRC. See...
