US Ambassador urged country’s energy adviser to approve plans by London-based GCM Resources, despite mine being closed in 2006 after violent protests. See http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/21/wikileaks-cables-us-bangladesh-coal-mine.
Note that these two articles from Business News Americas seem to be more concerned about markets and profits than about the tragic deaths of the mineworkers and the impacts of those deaths on family, friends and colleagues. Collahuasi declares force majeure on sales...
‘Climate capitalism’ won at Cancun – everyone else loses Positive spin about the global climate summit in Cancun is based on reaching international consensus and establishing instruments to manage the crisis using market-based strategies – even...
Fourteen African and other civil society organisations, including London Mining Network, have called on BHP Billiton to halt its plans to construct a US$5 billion aluminum smelter, and co-fund a $3.5 billion hydropower project, in Democratic Republic of Congo....
UK miner extends grasp over Mongolia, goes for Mozambique Rio Tinto, the third most highly capitalised mining company, and second among global iron ore producers, is bidding for Australian-listed, Mozambique-based, coal mining company, Riversdale. The fit is obvious:...
Sterlite Industries (India) Ltd, a unit of the London-listed Vedanta Resources, can keep running its Tuticorin copper smelter unit for now. The Supreme Court overruled the Madras High Court’s earlier order to close the unit for violating environmental laws. The...
