The department of La Guajira is the largest coal producer in the Colombia. The mining complex of El Cerrejón is the largest open pit coal mine in Latin America and accounts for 46% of Colombia’s total coal exports. The sales of coal produce an income of...
One of the worst-ever examples of mining-related corruption has been exposed in the Indian state of Karnataka. There have been numerous breaches of law by many companies – including Vedanta Resources. See...
Why a First Nations student from British Columbia is taking on a controversial trans-Canadian pipeline project—through song http://www.yesmagazine.org/happiness/what-a-10-year-old-did-for-the-tar-sands?fb_ref=likebutton&fb_source=home_oneline Civil Disobedience...
Anglo American Platinum has, according to South Africa’s National union of Mineworkers, raised its pay offer to workers in attempt to ward off threatened strike action. See http://www.mineweb.com/mineweb/view/mineweb/en/page35?oid=133851&sn=Detail.
Huntington Lane is a site near Telford in the English West Midlands where protesters are trying to stop opencast coal mining by UK Coal. The national eviction team came onto the site on 19 August, escorted support crew off and took down ground structures. See...
On 18 August ten people arrived unannounced at the offices of Cairn Energy at the Clydesdale Plaza in central Edinburgh. They installed themselves at the grand entrance to the building, blowing whistles and shouting: “No oil for Vedanta! Stop, stop, stop the deal!”...
