Press release from Colombian National Coal Workers’ Union, SINTRACARBON Saturday 8 January 2011 was the eleventh day of alloted time to reach a direct settlement in the collective labour dispute between SINTRACARBON and the Cerrejon company, the property in...
On January 14th 2011 a group of protesters invaded the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and demanded a meeting with Stephen Green, the new Minister for Trade. Calling themselves the “Big Society Trade Negotiators”, they were concerned that trade...
Vedanta plc’s Indian iron ore mining subsidiary, Sesa Goa, wants the government of Goa to build a road which would convey ore to a new mining jetty. Villagers are outraged at the proposal, claiming that it violates coastal zoning legislation, doesn’t serve...
Why does England have weaker rules on opencast mining than Wales and Scotland? In response to public complaints, the governments of Wales and Scotland both changed their planning policies. They now have buffer zones for opencast coal mines. What this means is that...
The World Bank has published its Extractive Industries Annual Review for 2010. Among the Review’s key points were that: WB-IFC investments in oil and gas far outstrip that in mining Over the past five years, the Bank’s investment in mining has comprised...
In an incisive and detailed piece of research, African author Khadija Sharife examines an extremely “complex and opaque” web of recent wheeling, dealing, accusation and counter-accusation in South Africa. Anglo American – among the world’s...
