This is the story of the December 2009 attack by the police on the village of Cajas Canchaque, located in the North of Peru, where two farmers were shot dead. Police entered the village, a stronghold of anti mining sentiment against London-based Monterrico...
A surge in weather-related disasters in Australia could push global mining firms to overhaul supply contracts and rethink how bad weather will affect their operations and customers worldwide. Climate scientists say a warmer world will cause greater extremes of weather...
Tipping Point: The Age of the Oil Sands is a two-hour visual tour de force, taking viewers inside the David and Goliath struggle playing out within one of the most compelling environmental issues of our time. The age of innocence for the oil sands is over. See...
Nuclear radiation is forever By Helen Caldicott And Dale Dewar. Port Hope is the deep dark underbelly of the Canadian nuclear industry, representing dangers that so far, have escaped sufficient scrutiny and cleanup. See...
The mining majors are pumping cash, but huge capital expenditures increasingly compete with investor demand for bigger dividends, and stock buybacks. Media reports in the UK have it that individual institutional shareholders are “campaigning” for BHP...
Russian mining group Severstal’s unit Nord Gold confirmed it had postponed plans for a $1.5 billion London IPO (initial public offering) due to market conditions. Market attention will now turn to Russian state-controlled lender VTB, which will close the books...
