Villagers of one of India’s most-impoverished areas broke down at a public hearing held here and asked Vedanta Resources officials to “kill them now rather than forcibly trying to take over their land”. The mandatory public hearing was held by authorities to...
The news has gone around the world. Wikileaks has revealed new diplomatic cables regarding meetings between representatives of key mining companies operating in Peru and the ambassadors of the US, Canada, Britain, Switzerland and South Africa – countries that...
In Colombia, progress is in peril. A key court ruling that stopped a mining project threatening biodiverse forests and human rights is under attack. See http://www.aida-americas.org/sites/default/files/2011_02_0.html. Rio Tinto has an interest in the project. For...
According to residents in the Valley of Huasco in Chile there is an alarming lack of water in the area, despite the rains in 2010. Barrick Gold has finally been fined for damaging the glaciers they depend on. The Chilean government made it a pre-condition, in...
A report has been produced based on research by Norway’s international environmental foundation, Bellona, aimed at addressing the negative impacts on environment and public health caused by plants operated by Russia’s Norilsk Nickel Mining and...
Consensus is growing that we must reduce our dependence on fossil fuels. Proponents of nuclear energy say nuclear is the best alternative. But nuclear energy is neither clean nor green. Each step in the nuclear chain poses hazards to the environment and human health....
