Statement by Committees Against Gold Mining in Halkidiki, Greece, 21 February 2013: “We are residents of Halkidiki, Greece, members of the local communities that have being struggling for years against the environmental, economic and social destruction, caused...
A major fire at its Daw Mill Colliery could threaten the viability of operator UK Coal, its chief executive has warned. The fire forced UK Coal to evacuate more than 100 underground workers from Daw Mill, one of three deep coal mines it operates. UK Coal said on...
This report comes from Foil Vedanta’s friend in the court room as the Niyamgiri case continues… http://www.foilvedanta.org/news/inside-report-from-the-supreme-court-niyamgiri-case/
The Sangguniang Panlalawigan of South Cotabato rallied behind the provincial environment code that bans open pit mining method as the local Catholic Church urged the public to intensify the opposition to the Tampakan copper-gold project now that it has obtained an...
The multinational gold mining company, AngloGold Ashanti, has taken legal action against a small town in central Colombia after its citizens allegedly prohibited the mining company’s employees’ freedom of movement. The Colombian branch of the South...
Guinea’s government published contracts it has signed with mining firms including majors Rio Tinto and RUSAL in a bid for more transparency in a sector plagued by corruption and mismanagement. See...
The founder of Fair Jewellery Action claims that, “influenced by the corporates”, the OECD’s top-down guidelines for conflict free gold mining in DR Congo “seems to be adding to the already highly complex problem rather than making it...
“What we are seeing is that the melting of ice is prompting a rush for exactly the fossil fuel resources that fuelled the melt in the first place,” said Achim Steiner, U.N. Under-Secretary-General and UNEP Executive Director. “As the UNEP Year Book...
Beheadings are putting the mining world through something akin to the French Revolution. Mining bosses who landed their jobs in the bubble era – 2006 and 2007 – or did their signature top-of-the-market deals in those years are being fired with alacrity. Or they are...
Just how much capital do you have to misallocate — to use the management euphemism du jour — to be fired as a mining CEO these days? We are not even past February and just a handful of companies — Kinross, Barrick, Anglo, Rio and BHP — have already managed to impair...
Bumi board continues to ignore concerns about coal impacts in Indonesia Shareholders from Down to Earth, London Mining Network and War on Want attended Bumi plc’s meeting in London yesterday to question the company about the devastating impacts of its...
Troubled coal mining company Bumi plc is to hold an Extraordinary General Meeting this Thursday, 21 February, to decide on Nat Rothschild’s proposal to throw out nearly all of the company’s current directors and replace them with new ones. Investors have...
