‘Radioactive dust storm threat’ if mine goes ahead An Academy Award-nominated documentary maker claims the red dust dumped onto Australian east coast cities recently is a reason to be concerned about BHP Billiton’s proposal to turn South...
“Water wars” don’t just occur between communities, governments and companies. The Bolivian and Chile administrations – hardly friends at the best of times – are now embroiled in arguments over which country has “rights” to the...
De Beers’ diamond mining activities in Botswana have failed to generate benefits for communities in the areas where it operates, according to a hard-hitting report compiled by the Bench Marks Foundation. The report…focuses on…Debswana [joint venture...
Barely three weeks following the assassination of the son of a well-known anti-mining activist, two Indigenous leaders were also murdered, and more than a dozen wounded, as they sought to defend their land in Guatemala. Nineteen-year old Walter Mendez Valazquez was...
Despite rain more than 3,000 tribals took part in a rally at Muniguda in Rayagada district to protest against the mining project of Vedanta Alumina Limited (VAL) in Niyamgiri hills of south Orissa. See http://www.hindu.com/2009/10/06/stories/2009100653710300.htm.
Chhattisgarh police have interrogated several Chinese engineers employed by Shandong Electric Power Construction Corporation (SEPCO) at Korba town to probe the Sep 23 collapse of an under-construction power plant chimney that killed 45 workers. See...
