In 2005, the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community tried to lease the sacred Eagle Rock site from the State of Michigan for ceremonial use. Located in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula near Marquette, Eagle Rock and the surrounding Yellow Dog Plains are part of lands ceded to the...
Anil Agarwal and his cronies had it coming. Their company, Vedanta Resources, last week confronted a far more vocal and aggressive presence at its London annual general meeting than ever before. For the first time too, a handful of investors stuck their head above the...
Recent high profile cases of companies damaging the environment and abusing human rights call into question whether investors really are becoming more active on these issues, suggests Sigrid Rausing. See...
London law firm Client Earth has recently published a critique of Rio Tinto’s corporate reporting in the light of the Companies Act 2006 requirements, comparing Rio Tinto’s record with its reporting, and referring the company to the Financial Reporting...
The Canadian Friends of Burma (CFOB) is deeply concerned by reports that Export Development Canada (EDC), a state owned Crown corporation, intends to give as much as half a billion dollars in public subsidies to Ivanhoe Mines and its Chairman Robert Friedland for a...
Rochelle Dale, Jan Zender and other residents of the small town of Big Bay, Michigan, hosted a multi-faith fasting and prayer event on the Yellow Dog Plains, “in the shadow of Eagle Rock,” where Rio Tinto plans to open a nickel and copper sulfide mine. Representatives...
