Coal, climate and floods in Australia

As storm clouds break, London Calling gets biblical: a plague of floods, crocs, and ultimate darkness? Sometimes “natural events” do more to dent a company’s share price than criticisms by campaigners at a shareholders annual general meeting. That...

Lawyer criticises police on undercover Pc Mark Kennedy

The solicitor for six green campaigners says police need to answer “serious questions” about an undercover officer who infiltrated their group. Mike Schwarz said efforts to charge the six with conspiring to shut down the Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station in...

Mongolia declares diplomatic war on Britain over arrested spy

Britain is embroiled in a damaging diplomatic row with Mongolia over the arrest of its most senior spy which is threatening to derail relations between the two countries and freeze British companies out of contracts worth millions of pounds. Although this article does...

Resolution Copper seeks support by wielding checkbook

This article highlights the close relationship between BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto’s Resolution joint venture in Arizona, and some US environmentalists. The Arizona Audubon Society and the Nature Conservancy seem to have agreed not to publicly criticize the...