The report on fracking released on 29 June by the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAE) & the Royal Society omits a key consideration: the RAE’s ex-President is Lord Browne, Chairman of Cuadrilla, the UK’s leading fracker. See...
Hong Kong’s stock exchange operator said its $2.2 billion offer is the preferred bid for the London Metal Exchange. A takeover of the LME, which handles some 80% of global trade in metals futures, will help Hong Kong diversify out of its slow-growing equities business...
An Arabunna elder has returned to the Federal Court to tell “a good story” in his bid to block the $30 billion expansion of the Olympic Dam copper, uranium and gold mine in South Australia’s north. See...
The danger posed by the nuclear industry is graphically described in a carefully-organised and documented poster exhibition which will be displayed in Hiroshima in August 2012. Created by The International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW), it...
Rio Tinto subsidiary Bougainville Copper Ltd (BCL) said in early May the people of Bougainville’s future depended on the reopening of the Panguna mine. But Bougainvilleans do have a choice for their economic future not solely based on mining. We know this because,...
But will they lead anywhere? Among London-listed companies active in South Africa are Anglo American, AngloGold Ashanti, BHP Billiton, Coal of Africa Limited, Rio Tinto and Xstrata. See http://www.minesandcommunities.org/article.php?a=11781.
It was to be – literally – the world’s “flagship” seabed mining venture. Nautilus Minerals would open the way to the exploitation of huge copper and gold riches, through its Solwara-1 project off the coast of Papua New Guinea. The...
London-listed South African miner AngloGold Ashanti has launched a $750 million, five-year loan to its existing lending group via coordinators and bookrunners Barclays and Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, banking sources said on Thursday. See...
“Of late, an impression is being created that the opposition to the Posco project has fizzled out. Clearly, that is wishful thinking on the part of those who want the project to go ahead at any cost.” So declares Freny Macsheka in an article for Indian...
London-listed miner Archipelago Resources, which runs the Toka Tindung gold mine in north Sulawesi, has also targeted average gold production of 160,000 ounces over the next six years. See...
The Industrial Revolution, which made Britain the powerhouse of the world in the 19th Century, may have been consigned to the history books but it has left a legacy of environmental problems. Experts warn it continues to pollute drinking water, poison rivers and...
Does Rio mark an End to the “Sustainability” Road? One leading Indian environmentalist, greeting the final declaration of the Earth Summit, asked why it had been “about the future we do not want?” Of particular concern to many civil society...
