In November of last year, Vedanta’s Zambian subsidiary Konkola Copper Mines (KCM) was fined in court for polluting the very river it had poisoned four years earlier in the north of the country. In November 2006, effluents cascaded from a burst slurry pipeline...
A WikiLeaked cable from US embassy, Dhaka shows that Moriarty urged Tawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury, the prime minister’s energy adviser, to authorise coal mining in Phulbari, saying that ‘open-pit mining seemed the best way forward’ (Guardian, December 21). But for whom? He...
India’s 2006 Forest Rights Act* is potentially the most significant pro-Peoples legislation of its kind in the country’s history. If thoroughly implemented, the Act stands to benefit more forest-dependent communities, impacted by mineral projects, than...
The road from Rayagada north to Bissamcuttack and the Kalahandi border is in a state of rampant disrepair. A smashed lorry lies overturned in a ditch — one of countless accidents in recent years. At least two policemen are among the last five years’ hundreds of...
Once again there has been a violent incident at Xstrata’s Tampakan copper-gold project over the Christmas holiday period. This time security operatives, working for an affiliate of UK-based Securicor, have been injured in an armed attack on company offices....
For many years, LMN member group Down to Earth has been working with JATAM, the Indonesian Mining Advocacy Network on a variety of mining campaigns in Indonesia. Following the launch of Indonesian network JATAM’s ‘Deadly Coal’ campaign early in...
