Loose Anti Opencast Network (LAON) press release, 15 March 2013 Big question marks now hang over the British Coal Industry and whether it will be able to play out the role prescribed for it in the short to medium term. That role was to provide the country with an...
For Mozambican tribal queen Zoria Macajo, the thatched-hut village of Capanga, nestled in the hills above the Zambezi river, has been her family’s home for generations. For mining giant Rio Tinto it is a headache sitting on top of one of the world’s...
Papua New Guinea’s copper-rich island of Bougainville plans to introduce legislation that will see traditional landowners share mineral rights with their government. President of the Autonomous Bougainville Government John Momis has told Radio Australia’s...
Australian miners and unions are outraged after hearing a Rio Tinto employee went missing for almost four days before he was found dead at a Western Australia mine camp. See http://www.mining.com/rio-tintos-miner-dead-four-days-before-found-30678/.
Lawyers representing gold miners suffering from the deadly lung disease silicosis said on Thursday they had filed a class action lawsuit application against the South African arm of global mining giant Anglo American. The application by the legal groups from South...
Canadian High Commissioner to the UK, Gordon Campbell, was greeted with protests at Oxford University on Friday 8 March. Local community members held a banner which read “Keep Tar Sands out of Europe” at the entrance to Lady Margaret Hall as Campbell arrived to...
The Polish government’s plea to obtain even more free carbon emissions permits from the Eropean Union has failed – at least for the time being. However, the European Commission is facing stiff opposition from industry and others to its proposal to...
The bloody first round of South Africa’s mine union turf war is over and the clear winner on the platinum belt is the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU). From this position of strength, AMCU is signalling a radical departure from tactics...
Why is ex-British prime minister, Tony Blair, so keen to endorse Rwanda’s president, Paul Kagame, despite growing condemnation of his regime, both at home and abroad? In an article, co-authored by Blair and Howard G Buffett, published last month in the US...
Two people were killed on 2 March at the North Mara Gold Mine which is operated by London-listed African Barrick Gold. “Examination on the bodies of the deceased at the Tarime District Hospital has just been concluded and it indicates that the lady was shot on...
On March 2nd 2013, three adherents of the longstanding local peoples’ movement in resistance to India’s huge POSCO project, were killed and another seriously injured, in what – according to other villagers – was an attack by...
Ten executives have quit PT Bumi Resources, Indonesia’s top coal exporter, as the firm gets ready to disconnect itself from the Bakrie Group and London-listed parent Bumi Plc. In a statement the company said its chairman, Sami Tan, has left the board of commissioners...
