Earth Day celebrations in the Philippines focused on mining. At Glencore Xstrata’s much disputed Tampakan mine, one of the civil society opponents of the mine has been arrested (or abducted) allegedly for being a member of the communist New Peoples’ Army. The charge that is vehemently denied, and such accusations are a regular method of discrediting, and intimidating, those who oppose the project.
Tony Hayward – who garnered media headlines as the head of BP during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill – is to take the chairman position at Glencore, The Telegraph reports.
Tony Hayward – who garnered media headlines as the head of BP during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill – is to take the chairman position at Glencore, The Telegraph reports.
n a new and unexpected twist in the battle to control Guinea’s rich Simandou iron ore deposits, the companies once operating in the area have began a series of billion-worth lawsuits, with iron ore miner No.2 Rio Tinto, suing the world’s largest producer Brazil’s Vale.
Rio Tinto held its second AGM in Melbourne, following the London meeting. Unsurprisingly, an issue that was only raised at the end of a busy London meeting – the problems at ERA’s Ranger mine in Kakadu – received much greater interest in Australia. However, the company position, of refusing to step in to assist ERA if there were problems with rehabilitation, remained the same. Not long after the AGM the mine suffered a further set back when a ventilation shaft collapsed at the Ranger mine.
