The Archbishop of Canterbury has raised concerns about the Church of England’s investment in Vedanta, the FTSE 100 mining group criticised by the government this week over its plans to open a bauxite operation in a sacred mountain area of India. Speaking at Southwark...
Vedanta’s planned Nyamgiri bauxite mine in Orissa has been the subject of more national and international press column inches than any other Indian venture of its kind. Inevitably, given its notorious propensities, the UK company has sought every opportunity to...
Will the eco hot spot of Niyamgiri hills in tribal Orissa be ravaged by mining? It’s been almost a decade, but this non-violent movement is peaking amid the dense, pristine wild forests, mountains and streams, wildlife, flora and fauna of the remote Niyamgiri...
It’s taken a quarter of a century for authorities in the Canadian province of Newfoundland to formally recognise that toxic pollution at a closed-down mine has probably been poisoning local residents and workers over many decades. Last week, blood tests were...
Is Rio Tinto “listening” to the people of Bougainville? That’s what a leading Papua New Guinea newspaper announced last week, as Paul Coleman from the UK company’s Bougainville Copper (BCL) subsidiary arrived in the province following a twenty...
UK campaigners claim victory against coal In August 2008, protestors glued themselves to the doors of BHP Billiton’s London headquarters. They sought to link coal mining by the global resources’ giant with a controversial planned UK coal-fired power plant....
