The Lizards Revenge: Communique Monday 9th July 2012 The Lizards Revenge music and arts festival and protest camp will take place at the gates of the Olympic Dam mine (or close by) from the 14th-18th July 2012. The festival will include a variety of musicians, bands...
Japan panel: Fukushima nuclear disaster ‘man-made’ The crisis at the Fukushima nuclear plant was “a profoundly man-made disaster”, a Japanese parliamentary panel has said in a report. See http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-18718057. Nuclear...
Activists who oppose BP’s sponsorship of the gallery carried a one and a half tonne blade across Millennium bridge. See http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/jul/07/protesters-turbine-blade-tate-modern?newsfeed=true.
London-based GCM Resources Plc is so desperate to open a huge opencast mine at Phulbari in Bangladesh that it has offered a 30% stake in the company to the government of Bangladesh, in return for open-pit commercial exploration of the Phulbari coal mine. Sources at...
Will Pascua Lama be put out to grass? Argentina’s Supreme Court has rejected a 2010 ruling by a federal judge in San Juan province, that key provisions of Argentina’s glacier protection law can be ignored. The law will now be applied across the country,...
The Oppenheimer family, controller of giant diamond miner DeBeers since 1927, has officially let go of its 40% stake in the company, after South Africa’s Mineral Resources Minister Susan Shabangu on Friday approved the acquisition of that portion by Anglo American....
Tata owns steelmaking operations in the Netherlands and the UK and also owns Tetley Tea. Eminent Indian panel finds Tata Mundra poses high social, environmental, economic risks Tata’s Mundra proposed thermal power project in the Indian state of Gujarat has been...
Coal kills. Don’t take it from us; that’s what International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde told a Washington, D.C., audience recently, noting that coal pollution is responsible for 70,000 premature deaths each year in India alone. Shockingly, that...
The 2nd Press Release from the Loose Anti Opencast Network contains new evidence on why opencast mining may endanger peoples health. It also gives an update on the prospects for Carbon Capure and Storage of Carbon Dioxide Gas and its potential impact on planning...
Frank Timis, who had been running the iron ore miner since May, will become non-executive chairman when Keith Calder take over the reins as the new CEO. Shares in the company rose as much as 11 percent and were among the top percentage gainers on the London Stock...
Early in 2012, St. Thomas University and University of New Brunswick faculty members and students in Canada organized a speakers’ series under the umbrella of the Occupy Movement. The lectures drew on the research expertise of faculty and focused on themes of social...
Alma, QC, Steelworkers Hailed as Heroes in International Labour Movement The United Steelworkers (USW) and its global allies are hailing the end of Rio Tinto’s six-month lockout of aluminum smelter workers in Alma, Quebec, as a great victory for the workers and...
