In defence of beleaguered Minister of International Cooperation, Bev Oda, Prime Minster Stephen Harper told the Canadian Parliament that the Canadian International Development Agency should give money only to “the poorest and the most vulnerable.” This is...
Can the South African government avert potentially the worst environmental mining disaster in history? According to recent reports, toxic liquids in abandoned underground gold mines have now reached a level between 500 metres to 700 metres below the surface of the...
About fifty protesters, including members of Greenpeace, set up a camp on the access road to Barrick Gold’s Veladero and Pascua Lama mines in Argentina. The protest was done to promote the Glacier Law enacted last October. Police personnel acted to clear the...
Ah, the desperate whiff of worried PRs. London-listed mining giant Vedanta Resources had a bruising encounter with tribal rights charity Survival International last year. Now, says the charity, “it appears that Vedanta has sent down its spies”. See...
The Orissa High Court concluded hearing on the petition filed by Vedanta Aluminium Company Ltd challenging the Centre’s withdrawal of permission for expansion of its Lanjigarh aluminium refinery from 1 to 6 MTPA and also cancelling the public hearing held on April 25,...
Anglo-Australian miner Rio Tinto has been granted a three-month extension before it must formally give up its rights to part of Guinea’s giant Simandou iron ore concession. Rio, which invested $680 million in what it said is the world’s largest undeveloped...
