Call to action to support award winning environmental campaigner Father Marco Arana, who has won international renown for his work to defend human rights and the environment in Peru against destructive mining, has been arrested and beaten by police for his opposition...
Clashes in northern Peru between police and demonstrators opposing a multi-million dollar gold mining project have left at least three people dead. Protesters say the Conga project, financed by US-based company Newmont, will destroy water supplies. See...
BP, Rio Tinto and Dow Chemical accused of using the 2012 games to ‘greenwash’ their reputations “Rio Tinto is involved in environmental and human rights controversies all over the world, but the pollution is so bad near the mines in Utah where Rio...
Following an emergency meeting with representatives from Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund, sources at Swiss-based, London-listed commodities giant Glencore International told the Financial Times that they are willing to kill its $68 billion merger with Xstrata....
John McDonnell MP and others have signed a new Early Day Motion (EDM) in support of the Greenwash Gold Campaign. An EDM is like a petition by Members of Parliament, testing the strength of opinion about a particular issue. If you live in the UK, please contact your MP...
Philippines: Executive disorder – the wait continues… The ongoing saga surrounding the long-delayed Presidential Executive Order on mining continues to – well, ‘go on’. Despite a flurry of press stories predicting its imminent arrival, at...
Peru’s great transformation – backwards Numerous social conflicts, especially over mining; arbitrary arrests of opponents; and the suspension of human rights, have followed in the wake of Ollanta Humala’s election as Peru’s president a year...
As Glencore fumes at the state takeover of its relatively-small Colquiri zinc-tin operation, one Bolivian expert says the government isn’t aiming to nationalise larger mines, “because it doesn’t have the ability to take charge of them”. See...
Colombia’s environmental licensing authority has rejected requests to modify permits for coal expansion projects including at top producers Drummond Co and Glencore International’s Prodeco unit over pollution worries, the body said. Colombia’s top...
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer is a leading UK-based law firm which, apart from being main legal advisor for the London 2012 Olympic Games organising committee, in February 2009 was appointed by Xstrata to handled its rights issue as the UK-Swiss company attempted to...
One week after its creation, IndustriALL Global Union announced its intention to shine a light on Rio Tinto’s unethical behaviour around the world, starting with the release of a report on the company’s operations in Africa. See...
Protesters take to the stage at Roundhouse over BP Olympics sponsorship On 27 June, members of the “Reclaim Shakespeare Company” jumped on stage and performed an anti-BP “guerrilla Shakespeare” skit in front of a theatre audience that included many BP employees. See...
