World Bank-IFC urged to refuse funding for Rio Tinto's Mongolian mine
Photo: tailings pond at Rio Tinto’s Oyu Tolgoi mine Rio Tinto’s vast Oyu Tolgoi copper/gold mine in the South Gobi desert of Mongolia is currently being considered by the World Bank for financing from the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and its...Philippines: one mine disaster after another – including Xstrata's disastrous Tampakan project
The Office of the President has finally intervened to force the Department of the Environment to issue the Environmental Compliance Certificate (ECC) to Xstrata’s Tampakan mine. This is despite the fact that no new information has arisen; those with power and...Canadian native protesters block road to De Beers mine
Sheriff’s injunction notice on the demonstration thrown into the trees on 17th February 2013. Photo: APTN Native protesters have blocked the winter access road to De Beers’ Victor mine in Northern Canada for the second time in less than two weeks, raising...Colombia halts mining multinationals in indigenous territory
A judge has suspended all activities by mining companies in nearly 50,000 hectares of indigenous lands in northwest Colombia, reported local media. In an “unprecedented” ruling, all mining and exploration activities in 49,421 acres of territories belonging...The Colombian mining locomotive has halted
President Santos of Colombia continues to preach the virtues of what he calls the “mining locomotive” of the economy, based mainly on coal, nickel and gold. But this is met with resistance. In El Cesar (northeast Colombia) in February 2012 a protest – due to the...POSCO’s fading Indian dream
A few weather-beaten shipping containers, a swathe of sand and a bitterly divided village: that is all South Korea’s POSCO has to show seven years after it announced plans for a $12 billion steel mill on a fertile strip of India’s east coast. Recently, the...Nuclear news
Sellafield clean-up cost reaches £67.5bn, says report The cost of cleaning up the Sellafield nuclear waste site has reached £67.5bn with no sign of when the cost will stop rising, according to a report. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-21298117 We...Europe says NO to tar sands
Protesters in Europe want to stop tarsands oil coming from Canada through the KXL pipeline to the Gulf of Mexico. Help by signing the petition – click on image for more.
Take action: stop Rio Tinto wrecking Mongolia!
Right now Mongolia has one of the world’s fastest growing economies because of the minerals it owns, but nearly a third of the population still lives in poverty. Mongolia could become one of those countries that suddenly became very wealthy but its people remained...Strike declared at El Cerrejon
Workers have gone on strike at the massive Cerrejon coal mine in Colombia, owned by London-listed multinationals Anglo American, BHP Billiton and Xstrata. Click on image for more…