An Argentinian government body has released initial results of its national glacier inventory, showing that many of the country’s mining projects sit in glacier-rich areas and may, therefore, be a threat to the country’s future water supply. Among...
Government should consider a freeze on mining in Naxal-hit areas, tribal affairs minister V Kishore Chandra Deo has said. Deo clarified that he was not against the industry or economic development, but unresolved land rights and mining were principle causes of...
I’ve recently seen a few articles that claim that historically low coal consumption in the United States doesn’t mean much because dramatic growth in global coal consumption is inevitable. Assertions like these rely on mind-boggling (and admittedly scary)...
Students protest Platform, UK Tar Sands Network and the Indigenous Environmental Network have revealed that in the past year the Royal Bank of Scotland underwrote bonds worth $131.25 million for controversial Canadian tar sands pipeline company Enbridge Energy...
Of course it’s not a new tactic by any means. Disrupting mining companies’ official annual general meetings has an honourable history going back more than three decades, especially in the UK, Australia and Canada. However, following feminists’ vocal...
The following is an interesting blog entry from Al Jazeera, but has its limitations. Although the protests cited certainly played a significant role in rolling back many US coal projects of late, so did a fall in the price of gas, which has seen an advance in use of...
In this article, Mark Dawe of Namibia’s Chamber of Mines makes an audacious claim. He says that “there has not been a single successful case in Africa of a majority state-owned mining company being operated successfully.” The reality is that such...
South African miner Gold Fields hopes an exploration deal in Kyrgyzstan has bought time to find something just as valuable as the copper and gold it seeks: the support of the local population in this volatile corner of Central Asia. Its joint venture in the former...
Canada-based, AIM-listed Nautilus Minerals (in which Anglo American is a major shareholder) is in dispute with Papua New Guinea as to the parties’ obligations to complete the agreement reached in March last year for its Solwara 1 copper project. The company, the...
BHP Billiton has cleared the last external hurdle for a planned $10 billion expansion of its Port Hedland harbour in Western Australia that would help the world’s biggest miner double output of iron ore. BHP won environmental approval from the federal government...
No margin for error http://www.hindustantimes.com/News-Feed/ColumnsOthers/No-margin-for-error/Article1-865997.aspx Bluefin tuna record Fukushima radioactivity http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18239107 Japan’s Former Leader Condemns Nuclear Power Chernobyl...
On Tuesday 5 June, the streets of the city of Ibagué were filled with the people of Tolima, united in their call to defend life, their water sources and territory. Over 30,000 people participated in the third march against large-scale mining, emphatically rejecting...
