Lobby groups including Amnesty International and the Corporate Responsibility Coalition have written to Jonathan Djanogly, a Justice minister, about proposals to reform civil litigation funding and costs. They believe that the proposals by Lord Justice Jackson to...
A Canadian perspective: “So maybe you didn’t lose a night’s sleep when the TMX group, the owner of the Toronto Stock Exchange, announced plans to merge with the London Stock Exchange Group. But the change in ownership of Canada’s biggest stock...
More than 50 jewellers, including Tiffany & Co., Zale Corp., and Jostens, have now signed on to a campaign launched in 2008 to boycott gold from a controversial mining project in Alaska’s Bristol Bay watershed. The site of the Pebble Mine is home to one of...
“We, members of Civil Society, having gathered at the alternative Mining Indaba, in Cape Town on 7th -9th February 2011, comprising faith based organisations, NGOs and community based organisations from Zimbabwe, South Africa, Mozambique, Malawi, Guatemala,...
Settlement with workers at Cerrejon On 8 February, the SINTRACARBON coal workers’ union in Colombia signed a new contract with the Cerrejon Coal Company, owned in equal parts by London-listed Anglo American, BHP Billiton and Xstrata. The agreement came after an...
BHP predicts strong iron ore prices for 2 years; CEO denies anti-China spying reports BHP CEO sees high iron ore price for up to 2 years, with optimistim on short term outlook. Kloppers dismisses WikiLeaks reports that BHP traded intelligence on China with USA. See...
