Ruling places BP in breach of its loan agreements, say campaigners. The ruling sets a major precedent. In future, multinationals will have to take into account the human rights context in which they operate, including the risk of intimidation, when designing and...
In the following letter to Guatemalan authorities and Goldcorp Inc., the Coalition Against Unjust Mining in Guatemala (CAMIGUA) expresses its profound concern following reports of violence in the municipality of San Miguel Ixtahuacán. CAMIGUA believes that the recent...
Conflict between locals and AIM-listed Greystar Resources forced the suspention of a public hearing about the Angostura project. See http://www.minesandcommunities.org/article.php?a=10776.
There are a number of options for Glencore to follow in terms of generating access to major capital and not all of them involve the mooted London IPO (initial public share offering on the London Stock Exchange). See...
Campaign groups in the Philippines now have two potential alternative mining laws being discussed by the country’s Congress, as a response to the constant concerns raised by civil society over the activities of mining companies. The new bill, the Minerals...
The environmental impact study for Xstrata’s Las Bambas copper project, in Apurimac, has been approved by Peru’s mining ministry. Peruvian NGO CooperAccion presented a set of observations to the study, when it was still under evaluation, and some of the...
