Kazakhstan’s parliament has approved a strict ecology bill, in a move expected to make some of the world’s leading metals miners spend more on treating their waste. Ashim told Reuters in an interview in March that the new law would have an impact on all...
It’s “nothing more than an attempt to transfer American resources from the hands of the American public to foreign interests”. That’s what a representative of the San Carlos Apache Tribe told the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Peoples in...
Rio Tinto is replacing workers with driverless trucks at its Pilbara iron ore operations in Western Australia. See http://www.mining.com/2011/11/02/rio-tinto-boosts-driverless-truck-fleet-for-use-in-pilbara/. LMN member group Partizans notes that in the past, Rio...
A U.S. federal appeals court has revived a lawsuit accusing mining giant Rio Tinto of committing genocide and war crimes in Papua New Guinea, where it once ran one of the world’s largest copper and gold mines. In their lawsuit, current and former residents of the...
The murder by suspected paramilitary forces of Fr. Tentorio maybe related to his opposition to the Xstrata mining project in South Cotabato, the largest ever in Philippine history, with a staggering 10,000 hectares covering four provinces. If its proposed equally...
In a move intended to pressure the Australian federal government to revise the proposed carbon tax, global miner Anglo American has threatened to withhold over $15 billion in coal mining investments and curtail 3,200 new jobs in Australia, according to a report by the...
