Last week, India’s Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) gave the final go-ahead to the POSCO steel project in Orissa. In an excoriating indictment of the decision, leading Indian environmental campaigner, Leo Saldanha, has laid bare the corrupt background...
Locals from Bougainville are keen to correct the pro-mine media regarding the reopening of the Panguna mine and warn against misrepresentation of views and a repeat of the bloody violence of the past. The proponent, Bougainville Copper Limited is majority owned by Rio...
As reported last week, Vale of Brazil has just secured a big chunk of one of the world’s most-criticised new hydro dams. Now, China’s biggest aluminium producer, Chinalco, has signed a JV deal with a Malaysian tycoon in order to access electricity from...
A proposal to expand the world’s largest open pit copper mine and keep it operating for another decade could take an important step forward if Utah air quality regulators allow increased emissions from the operation. But opponents are worried increased emissions...
Internationally Recognized Principles Needed for the Protection of Eagle Rock: Six Articles of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples – paper prepared by Jessica Koski:...
For the fourth year in a row, Indigenous Ipili leaders from Porgera in Papua New Guinea (PNG) have been in Canada to protest ongoing severe environmental impacts and human rights abuses associated with Barrick’s Porgera mine. “We are here to say that the human rights...
