The opposition Congress Party has asked Chhattisgarh’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to proceed under the state’s stringent public security law against the Essar group, which is alleged to have provided huge protection money to Maoist rebels. See...
Last week an ‘ecocide trial’ was held in London. The trial tested barrister Polly Higgins’ proposal for a crime of Ecocide – to hold to account directors of companies (rather than the company) who cause extensive damage to ecosystems to such an...
Toronto’s leading newspaper, The Globe and Mail, has published a lengthy examination of the activities of the world’s second biggest gold miner in the east African state of Tanzania. Its report – while giving space to the company’s own...
A fortnight ago Mines and Communities (MAC) reported the flooding of a coal shaft in Wales, which took the lives of four mineworkers. MAC commented then that: “The Gleision tragedy could now mark the end of a particularly hazardous type of small-scale coal...
The Xstrata-controlled Tampakan project has become one of the most contentious in the Philippines, and one that the Mines and Communities website has critiqued for several years. There are many reasons for this – not least that, if it goes ahead, the mine will...
Townsville mother Daphne Hare has launched a $1 million lawsuit against Xstrata Mount Isa Mines, alleging her daughter suffers from lead poisoning. Hare said her nine-year-old daughter was diagnosed with irreversible brain damage after living in Mount Isa. The law...
