Mining engineer Jack Parker has produced a report criticising as unsafe the design of Rio Tinto subsidiary Kennecott’s Eagle Mine in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan – a mine already being condemned for its impact on Native treaty rights and sacred sites...
Indian court orders closure of Vedanta’s “polluting” copper plant, but justice may still be denied A case, alleging massive pollution by UK-listed Vedanta Resources at India’s largest copper smelter, has been set aside by the Supreme Court. See...
World Gobbling Up Greenhouse Gas Budget: WWF Greenhouse gas emissions worldwide risk overshooting by a third the threshold beyond which dangerous global warming looms, the environment group WWF said on Wednesday, urging climate talks in China to tackle the gap....
Broken promises mark foreign mining deals in Canada Rio Tinto, Xstrata and BHP Billiton have all reneged on undertakings given prior to a Canadian takeover (in Rio Tinto’s case with regard to Alcan and in BHP Billiton’s with regard to Rio’s Canadian uranium and copper...
BHP Billiton plans to support the regulatory process of its iron ore JV with Rio Tinto, despite talk Rio plans to terminate the deal. Rio was forced to deny media speculation that its board had decided at a meeting on Monday to terminate the $US116 billion agreement...
BHP Billiton has been accused of double standards by complicating public access to documents about a planned filter shutdown at its Mozambican aluminium smelter. “I don’t understand how a corporate like BHP can do one thing in South Africa and across the border...
