Investor organizations holding over $170 billion in assets are urging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to evaluate the mine waste impacts of the proposed Pebble Mine on Alaska’s Bristol Bay watershed, an ecosystem of international significance. Pebble is...
This could be yet another example of Rio Tinto displaying its “compassion towards communities”‘ – while failing to change anything to suit its bottom line. Bill Champion, managing director of Rio Tinto’s 76%-owned Coal & Allied...
Clive Porabou visits residents around the site of the now-closed Panguna mine in Bougainville. Rio Tinto subsidiary BCL (Bougainville Copper Limited) is eager to reopen the mine. Many local residents are adamantly opposed. See...
Representatives from some of Canada’s First Nations demanded in person that the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) stops financing the controversial tar sands industry in Alberta, Canada, at the bank’s AGM. See...
Last week Switzerland-based Glencore – the world’s biggest minerals trader – announced it would seek a listing on the London and Hong Kong Stock exchanges in mid-May. Amid the issues being raised about the firm’s transparency and recent record,...
It’s been an inspiring tale of struggle. In response to a concerted campaign, at the end of March Colombia’s government (hardly noted for enforcing best environmental or social standards) told Greystar Resources it couldn’t operate an open-pit gold...
