Two years ago UK-listed Vedanta Resources plc was awarded India’s “Golden Peacock ” 2007 prize for best practices in training. That event failed to ruffle many feathers, nor was doubt cast on the organisation making the award – the so-called...
London-listed Xstrata Plc, the largest exporter of coal used by power plants, has proposed a “merger of equals” with Anglo American Plc to gain access to iron ore mines and control of the world’s biggest platinum producer. Xstrata pressed the directors of Anglo...
A few years ago Rio Tinto walked away from one of the most controversial mines in its recent history – the Flambeau copper project in Wisconsin, USA. A coalition of Native American and local people had taken up arms against one of the world’s biggest...
Civil Society Groups warn effectiveness of Kimberley Process compromised A landmark scheme established in 2003 to prevent trade in conflict diamonds is potentially failing in its objectives, campaigners said today. Ahead of a key meeting of the Kimberley Process...
Environmental groups have long called the tailings lakes in the Alberta oilsands Canada’s toxic secret, but companies operating there will soon be required to disclose exactly what pollutants are there. In April, a Federal Court ordered Ottawa to make the mining...
Marijke Deleu and Thomas Quirynen from LMN member group CATAPA were caught up in the brutal police response to recent Indigenous protests over laws opening the Peruvian Amazon region to mining, oil and timber development. Survival International has published their...
