Australian environment activists closed down operations at the world’s largest coal port on Sunday, after entering three terminals and attaching themselves to loaders, the terminal operator and the protesters said. Newcastle, just north of Sydney, is the...
Scotland should produce enough renewable electricity to meet all its power demand by 2025, First Minister Alex Salmond said Tuesday. “Scotland has unrivalled green energy resources and our new national target to generate 80 percent of electricity needs from...
In May, the European Parliament called for a complete ban on the use of cyanide in mining. See http://www.minesandcommunities.org/article.php?a=10102. The European Commission refused to endorse the ban. See http://www.minesandcommunities.org/article.php?a=10246. In...
London Mining Network has produced an introductory briefing on coal mining, dealing with its impacts on farming communities, Indigenous Peoples, water, air and human health. It calls for a just, planned transition away from coal and the creation of alternative...
London-listed BHP Billiton is pursuing a bid to take over Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan. The five underwriters — Banco Santander, Barclays Capital, BNP Paribas, JP Morgan and Royal Bank of Scotland — had stumped up $8,4 billion each, while TD...
Pravin Patel is a leading Indian tribal rights activist, who recently revealed the true extent of the disaster caused by Vedanta’s faulty chimney construction in Chhattisgarh. In a recent article he roundly condemns the UK company’s attempt to blame...
