Film: We don’t want the coal mine “We don’t want the coal mine” is a film on the social movement against the establishment of an open pit coal mine in Northwest of Bangladesh. To establish the mine at least ten thousand hectares of arable land is intended to be...
Mining from an environmental justice perspective: report from EJOLT (Environmental Justice Organisations, Liabilities and Trade) While world population increased 72 percent between 1970 and 2004, extraction of construction materials grew by 106 percent. The total...
UPDATE 22/11/2012: Talvivaara spill goes on! New leakage found in safety dam! Since the November 4, 2012 a cocktail of poisonous chemicals leaked from the Talvivaara mine in Eastern Finland to the surrounding rivers and lakes. An investigation of the Finnish...
Frankglenstrata: the birth of a mining monster? On Tuesday 20 November, mining and trading transnational corporation Glencore succeeded in its takeover bid for Xstrata, another massive mining company. But, why should we care? See...
For the past few years, the Beyond Coal campaign has been working with local activists across the United States to finally move that country off coal. But now coal companies are in a dead sprint to build 1,231 new dirty coal-fired power plants worldwide (according to...
Doubtless you know the parable? Three wise men enter an ancient Indian cave, bent on examining a mysterious creature, crouching in the darkness. One of them takes hold of its tail, declaring it to be a monkey – “Okay, we can cage it!” The second...
“The victims were unarmed and helpless, as most of them were still sleeping. It was only the elder son who was awake and in school uniform, sipping coffee outside the hut and who can be clearly seen and identified by the soldiers and yet they still fired at Jordan.”...
GCM’s open pit mining will affect environment, speakers tell roundtable Speakers at a roundtable in Bangladesh strongly opposed plans for open pit mining by London-listed GCM Resources at the Phulbari coal deposit, saying it would cause serious environmental...
The South African Ba-Phalaborwa Indigenous Community marched to the Palabora mining company’s office to hand a memorandum to Rio Tinto’s Subsidiary in demands of their rights, on Wednesday the 21st November. In a press release, the Community stated that:...
Rumours abound that Anglo-Australian giant Rio Tinto is not likely to follow rival BHP Billiton and dispose of its diamond business outright, but that it has much more ambitious plans. See...
The government of Bougainville claims it has the “clear moral authority” to decide who might mine the mothballed Panguna mine, not that of Papua New Guinea. Bougainville’s president, John Momis, also appears to discount the return of Rio Tinto to...
Harry Winston is buying BHP Billiton’s diamond assets, including its controlling interest in the Ekati Diamond Mine as well as the associated diamond sorting and sales facilities in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories and Antwerp, Belgium, for US$ 500 million....
