Plans to develop Scotland’s first commercial gold mine in Loch Lomond National Park have been approved. Members of the park authority’s board said the opportunities for new jobs and economic growth outweighed concerns about the environment. See...
London Mining Network joined 84 other organisations in signing a letter to investors in London-listed GCM Resources’ Phulbari coal project in Bangladesh, calling on them to disinvest. See http://www.accountabilityproject.org/article.php?id=668.
On 17 October 2011, the UN’s Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples told its General Assembly that he receives “on a daily basis, allegations of violations of the rights of indigenous peoples in specific cases”. In particular, said...
There’s no sign that conflicts between trade unionists and the management of the world’s largest gold-copper mine are close to resolution. On the contrary, within recent days several more people have been murdered in Freeport-Rio Tinto’s huge...
Residents of Hondeklipbaai, a small community in coastal northwest South Africa, has lodged a land claim against the world’s largest diamond mining company, Anglo-De Beers. The community is angered that the company has reneged on its promise to adequately...
Can a small local government hold back a large-scale development, despite much bigger political and corporate forces being ranged against it? That’s the question facing voters in Southwest Alaska’s Lake & Peninsula Borough who last week passed a ballot...
