A bauxite mining project in the Niyamgiri hills, sacred to the Dongria Kondh people in Orissa, India, has been given environmental clearance by the Indian Government’s Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF). The clearance notification (see below) allows a...
Vedanta has been fined by a court in India, as the judge declared environmental activism vital to combat “mankind’s folly”. See http://www.minesandcommunities.org/article.php?a=9245.
For several decades, New Zealand’s CAFCA (Campaign Against Foreign Control Of Aotearoa) has been fighting to preserve the country’s resources and territory for its own citizens, not least Indigenous Maori nations. Each year the organisation appoints a...
RIO TINTO has stepped up its canvassing of shareholders to determine what changes will be needed to secure their approval of the group’s controversial $US19.5 billion refinancing compact with China’s state-owned Chinalco. Rio has formally left open the...
The US foreign investment regulator has given its approval to Rio Tinto and Chinalco’s proposed $26 billion deal. The tie-up would see them take a small indirect stake in an American copper corporation, and needed clearance from the Committee on Foreign...
In view of the enormous destruction being wreaked on people and the environment by Freeport-Rio Tinto’s mining operations in West Papua, proposing the company appoint an “environmental expert” to its board doesn’t sound earth-shattering....
