Southeast Asia’s largest known unexploited copper and gold deposit lies in a remote mountain area just east of Tampakan, about 60km north of General Santos, the Philippines’ southernmost city. London-listed Xstrata, the fourth-largest copper producer in...
The people surrounding the Vedanta Alumina Project at Lanjigarh narrowly avoided a disaster on 5th April 2011. A crack developed in the dam holding back the company’s toxic red mud waste pond after a 45 minute thunder shower at 1:00 PM on 5th April 2011. Because...
South Korean giant Posco’s integrated steel plant in Orissa, India, could face another hurdle as the palli sabhas (local bodies set up to determine forest rights under the Forest Rights Act) of Dhinkia, Gobindpur and nearby villages plan to approve several...
In Mexico, communities are resisting the mining plans of a small London-listed company, run from Peru. See film We Have Everything And Lack Everything at...
There are growing concerns about financial donations from mining companies to Canadian university campuses. University faculties in Argentina have also been rejecting such corporate blandishments. In March 2011, the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters at ...
How nuclear apologists mislead the world over radiation By Helen Caldicott in response to George Monbiot’s public attack http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/apr/11/nuclear-apologists-radiation Japan Plant Emits More Radiation After Cooling Lapse...
