Official figures released this month show that the number of people with HIV/AIDS in West Papua has grown by more than 30% in just four months. The figure now stands at more than 17,000. However, doctors and others working in the region contest this number, believing...
THE end use of a $US700 million ($657m) payment Rio Tinto has made to the Guinea government will be independently audited but is expected to face increased scrutiny as British and US regulators toughen their stances on companies operating in other nations. See...
Colombia’s Constitutional Court has struck down strict mining regulations passed last year, but said the regulations will remain in effect for two years to give Congress time to draft and approve a replacement bill. This will affect, among others, London-listed...
London-listed Xstrata is directly involved in this project because it could jointly develop a section of the transmission line. HidroAysen’s five dams would flood nearly 6,000 hectares (14,800 acres) of land and require a 1,900 kilometer (1,180 mile)...
Anglo-Swiss mining group Xstrata has temporarily suspended activities at its US$4.2bn Las Bambas project in Peru’s Apurimac region due to protests, spokesperson Domingo Drago told BNamericas. “We have suspended our activities in the area, essentially to...
Germany’s Unlikely Champion Of a Radical Green Energy Path The disaster at the Fukushima plant in Japan convinced German Chancellor Angela Merkel that nuclear power would never again be a viable option for her country. Now Merkel has embarked on the world’s most...
