Communities from Colombia, Mongolia, South Africa and the US will demonstrate in London this week against some of the world’s largest mining companies, which they say are devastating the health of people, widely polluting the environment and forcing communities...
Rio Tinto expects to reap massive profits from its new diamond venture at Bunder in Madhya Pradesh State in India. And it sees its work there as a model of good practice. But a recent visit by a research team from India and the UK found a yawning gap between what the...
Sukhgerel Dugersuren, Executive Director of Mongolian organization Oyu Tolgoi Watch, questions the wisdom of multilateral funding of a deeply controversial project. Dr Kim, where is Mongolia’s economic diversification? In late February the World Bank’s private...
What started as movement measuring only fractions of an inch at Rio Tinto subsidiary Kennecott Utah Copper’s Bingham Canyon Mine became the biggest slide Ted Himebaugh has seen in his 36 years with the company. Himebaugh, Kennecott’s general manager of...
At BP’s Annual General Meeting two campaigners were refused entry to the meeting, despite holding legitimate paperwork. Emily Coats, from the UK Tar Sands Network, was told she was ‘not welcome’, despite being a shareholder, because she had previously protested...
UK tried diluting EU law on mining transparency: MEP The British government, influenced by mining company Rio Tinto, attempted to undermine an EU law that aims to bring greater transparency to the oil, gas, mining and logging sectors despite the government’s...
Press release from Global Witness and Publish What You Pay, 9th April 2013 New law represents a major victory after decade and a half campaign The EU has today agreed ground-breaking new rules forcing oil, gas, mining and logging companies to publish details of the...
Is it finally time to call Rio Tinto’s bluff? There’s been a fifty year-long battle at bringing Rio Tinto to account (literally) for its exploitation of hydro power, to feed its Tiwai Point smelter on New Zealand’s South Island. Now, the...
The Oyu Tolgoi tailings pond In March 2013, New Internationalist magazine carried an article on mining in Mongolia, including information about the Oyu Tolgoi project – but it did not mention that activity at the mine is controlled and operated by British-based mining...
Representatives of Utah Moms for Clean Air and Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment have warned citizens of Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada, of the dangers of allowing a large open pit mine close to their community. They point to the example of Rio Tinto...
Politicians in charge during the Papua New Guinea’s decade-long Bougainville war are landing advisory jobs with Australian mining companies, while the victims still await justice, writes Kristian Lasslet. The war was sparked by local outrage at pollution caused...
Perle Zafinandro Fourquet Those dispossessed of their land by the Rio Tinto/QMM mining project in Taolagnaro (southeastern Madagascar) are asking for a fair compensation since 2010. Perle Zafinandro Fourquet and her friends created the “Fagnomba” association to defend...
