Australia’s parliament endorsed the world’s first national scheme that regulates the creation and trade of carbon credits from farming and forestry on Monday, to complement government plans to put a price on carbon emissions from mid-2012. This will...
Radical elements within South Africa’s ruling ANC have been campaigning for outright nationalisation of the country’s mines. In part-response, Mines’ Minister Susan Shabangu, claims that securing a 26% “black ownership” (BEE) of the...
In October last year, the Madras High Court ordered Sterlite Industries – a subsidiary of UK-listed Vedanta Resources – to cease operating its Tuticorin (Thoothukudi) copper smelter in Tamil Nadu. Local citizen environmentalists had provided compelling...
In July 2011, Amnesty International issued a report, “Generalisations, omissions, assumptions: The failings of Vedanta’s Environmental Impact Assessments for its bauxite mine and alumina refinery in India’s state of Orissa”. The Business & Human Rights Resource...
Twelve minute video on the dangers of uranium mining and radiation exposure and the particular hazards posed by BHP Billiton’s planned expansion of uranium mining in South Australia. A decision on expansion is to be made in September. See...
Anglo American , Xstrata and BHP Billiton have approved a $1.3 billion expansion of Colombia’s largest coal mining operations, Cerrejon, the companies said on Thursday. Cerrejon is the largest coal producer and exporter in Colombia, the world’s No. 4...
