NEWS PEG: Thursday, 14 April 2011 Rio Tinto annual meeting Wednesday, 13 April 2011 London Olympic Medal Provider slammed for abuses Gold, silver and bronze medals for the London 2012 Games will be sourced from Rio Tinto mines including the Kennecott Utah Copper mine...
Rio Tinto will provide the metal for medals awarded at the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, the committee organising the event said on Wednesday. “Rio Tinto will provide all the gold, silver and copper to produce the 4,700 medals for the London 2012...
People from communities directly affected by Rio Tinto’s activities around the world, people who work with those communities, and experts on the operations of the company, have contributed to a background report which London Mining Network has produced ready...
As the sun rose on March 28, 2011, roughly 2,000 people gathered to demonstrate against a mining project that would displace tens of thousands of people in northwest Bangladesh and establish one of the largest open pit coal mines in the world. Located in an...
It was once dubbed “Food for Work” by the Indian government. Since 2005, its more sophisticated version – the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) – supposedly guarantees 100 days of manual employment for every poor household in the...
The Indian Supreme Court has agreed to hear an Orissa government plea challenging the Centre’s decision to cancel environmental clearance given to Vedanta bauxite mining project in Niyamgiri Hills. A bench headed by Justice P Sathasivam decided to adjudicate the...
