FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 13, 2012 Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia — Just one week after its grim warning during the UN climate talks in Doha that the world is on a path towards a four degree-rise in global temperatures, the World Bank is set to approve financing for...
Foil Vedanta PRESS RELEASE 6 December 2012 India High Commission entrance is blocked with mud as noisy protests call for a final end to Vedanta’s Niyamgiri mine Vedanta forced to close refinery as Supreme Court defers Niyamgiri verdict to January. Five thousand...
Development forced evictions involving egregious violations of fundamental human rights continue to be carried out with relative impunity. However, diverse grassroots movements worldwide are taking up a rights-based approach to challenge projects that threaten to...
London-listed BHP Billiton, the world’s biggest mining firm, says that extreme weather caused by climate change is already impacting some of its assets, thus forcing the company to re-evaluate its investments in the coal sector. Speaking to investors and analysts on...
Press release from Global Witness The reported decision of the IMF to halt funding should highlight the need for the Congolese state to ensure its natural resources are sold by public tender. London-listed Glencore and ENRC should take stock of the corruption fears...
Loose Anti Open Cast Network press release, 5 December 2012 The Loose Anti Opencast Network is broadly in favour of the intention of the Energy Bill to reduce the reliance on coal in the UK‘s energy mix, as this will reduce the need for new surface mine sites in the...
Rio Tinto’s Oyu Tolgoi copper-gold mine in the southern Gobi desert in Mongolia has become a symbol of a looming crisis: a limited water supply that could be exhausted within a decade, seriously threatening the lives and livelihoods of the local population. See...
To commemorate the 70th anniversary of the first sustained nuclear chain reaction “A Mountain of Waste Seventy Years High” nuclear symposium was held at the University of Chicago December 1 and 2, 2012. The first sustained nuclear chain reaction occurred...
South Africa’s government-allied mining union has lost up to 20,000 members since the start of 2012, a year marked by painful strikes and loss of life, the union’s leader said recently. The exodus from the once-dominant National Union of Mineworkers began...
Wednesday’s Westminster Hall debate in the UK Parliament on UK-listed mining companies included several mentions of London Mining Network and our report, UK listed mining companies and the case for stricter regulation. John McDonnell MP singled out GCM Resources...
The people have not forgotten about the Phulbari killing, uprising, the Phulbari Agreement or the commitment made by different governments. These are all living memory for us. Therefore, the people’s discontent is rising at the non-implementation of the main articles...
Dzomo la Mupo (a community organisation from Venda, South Africa, which is made up of community members and Custodians of Venda’s Sacred Natural Sites) issued an open letter to those attending the Coal of Africa Ltd (CoAL) Annual General Meeting held in London...
