Last year, the Obama administration permanently banned oil drilling in Alaska’s Bristol Bay, America’s richest salmon fishery and the heart of a $2.2 billion regional fishing industry. One huge threat to this extraordinary ecosystem remains: a proposed gold and copper...
On March 4 AIM-listed Greystar will have a second public hearing after which the environment ministry will decide on the license for Greystar’s Angostura project. This second public hearing was ordered after citizens of the city of Bucaramanga complained they...
Recent figures show the mining industry in the Philippines is failing to match its revenue targets. The reasons for this include the fact that an increasing number of local government units are looking to ban mining or impose a moratorium on it. Zamboanga del Norte...
“As long as we are alive, we will pursue Angloplat to get what is owed to us”. So declares Esther Moloto who, with fellow villagers, is waging war against the world’s biggest platinum mining company, a subsidiary of London-listed Anglo American. Her...
A senior traditional owner in Kakadu National Park is calling on the Australian government to reject plans to expand the Ranger uranium mine. Yvonne Margarula is alarmed at the likely poisoning of her peoples’ water by mine wastes. However, Rio Tinto –...
Ethical jewellery comes to Britain with Fairtrade gold launch Leading British jewellers launched certified “Fairtrade” gold last Wednesday, in a bid to boost livelihoods of artisanal miners working in perilous conditions and ensure ethical standards and...
