The most comprehensive source of information on the uranium industry and the struggle against it is at http://www.wise-uranium.org So Far So Good for Germany’s Nuclear Phase-Out, Despite Dire Predictions...
This morning an ‘oil orgy’ performance-protest disrupted the Canada Europe Energy Summit, at Canada House, in London. The annual energy summit was hosted by Canadian High Commissioner Gordon Campbell and featured top officials from Shell, Total and Enbridge, along...
London Mining Network press release 19 November 2012 On Tuesday 20 November, shareholders of mining giant Xstrata are due to vote on the proposed $33 billion takeover by Glencore. London Mining Network, a civil society group that monitors the impacts of London-listed...
Police in South Africa have been accused of planting weapons on the bodies of dead miners as part of an official cover-up of the Marikana massacre, in August. The Marikana mine is owned by London-listed Lonmin, in which London-listed Xstrata is a major shareholder....
The fall-out from the murder of family members of a tribal leader opposing Xstrata’s Tampkan project continues. A number of organisations have issued statements or written to the authorities, and the Commission on Human Rights has agreed to investigate. The...
Last month, BankTrack critiqued newly-drafted principles by the association of Equator Principles’ private banks. Now, Bank Watch tears similar strips off the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) for the defective mining policy it published...
How can mining wastes be safely managed into the indeterminate future – is there really a way, and if so, what is it? See http://www.minesandcommunities.org/article.php?a=11987.
Last month, London and Toronto-listed Egyptian gold mining company, Centamin, was ordered by the state’s Administrative Court to relinquish its Sukari concession on the Red Sea. A month before, the Court ruled illegal the acquisition by Mexico’s CEMEX of...
Joint urgent action request from Colombia Solidarity Campaign, London Mining Network and War on Want Three huge mining companies listed on the London Stcok Exchange own Colombian company Cerrejon Coal, operator of the Cerrejon opencast coal mine in the department of...
Early Day Motion 649 British Registered mining companies at El Cerrejon in Colombia “That this House notes that the Cerrejon coal mine continues to have negative impacts on communities in the Colombian department of La Guajira; further notes that the mine is...
Following the September 2012 Marikana massacre of protesting mineworkers, a chequered “pattern” of re-hiring and firing is emerging in South Africa’s gold and platinum fields. A few mine managers have taken back workers they previously sacked, but...
It is now ten years since BHP left Papua New Guinea. When it did so it gave its shareholding in the giant Ok Tedi gold and copper mine to the people of PNG. That shareholding is still held in a Singapore-based company called PNG Sustainable Development Program Ltd...
