The Mines and Geosciences Bureau chose to speak out recently on Glencore’s controversial Tampakan project, proffering the opinion that the project had all the necessary local government agreements in place, despite the continuing ban on open-pit mining in South Cotabato.
The owner of London-listed Vedanta Resources plc, Anil Agarwal, appears to have succeeded in achieving his cherished ambition of establishing a Harvard-style university in the Indian state of Orissa.
The European Parliament’s Committee on International Trade is the latest committee to vote on proposed legislation on certain minerals extracted in conflict zones. Some welcomed the move, noting that it did impose binding regulation on the so-called 3TG (tantalum, tin and tungsten, as well as gold) mined in conflict zones in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and neighbouring countries in conflict.
Others, especially NGOs advocating on the issue noted that the current proposals under discussion rejected a proposal to impose binding transparency standards on the whole supply chain for these minerals.
European citizens already live in luxury, but it is corporations from the UK, Germany, Italy, Finland and Norway that are profiting from experimental seabed mining plans in Papua New Guinea – profits paid for by PNG taxpayers.
Declaration coming ouf of three days of plenaries, workshops and discussions of the World Uranium Symposium in Canada, which closed on Thursday, April 16, 2015.
