Mongolia’s government may safely be described as pro-mining. It wants to develop the mineral resources of its country – and it expects to gain significant economic, social and political benefits from expansion of the mining sector. Government officials want the...
Who threatens us most – peaceful campaigners or a private militia run by police chiefs? This is what the head of a police unit set up to monitor domestic extremism said in 2009. “I’ve never said – and we don’t see – that any environmentalist is going to or...
Northwest and Ethical Investments, the Canadian socially responsible investment management firm with around C$4.5bn (€3.4bn) in assets under management, has dumped FTSE100-listed metals and mining group Vedanta over lack of progress on human rights and environmental,...
Farmers in Canada say a high profile carbon sequestration experiment is a bubbling, dangerous failure. See http://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2011/01/12/PromiseOfPumpingCO2/
Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto has come under intense criticism for its association with a small company called La Muriel Mining in Colombia (1). La Muriel was accused of failing to consult Indigenous and Afro-descendant communities adequately at its Mande...
In recent months, there has been much discussion of the possibility of re-opening the Panguna copper mine on the Pacific island of Bougainville (Mekamui). The mine is owned by Rio Tinto subsidiary Bougainville Copper Ltd. Operation of the mine led to a war of...
