The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) (to which the UK government contributes) is “lending excessively to polluting fossil fuel projects, especially coal, undermining its own sustainable energy strategy”. That’s the claim made...
How a UK company contributes to worker sickness and environmental pollution in Colombia. See http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-05-24/the-slippery-market-for-mercury#p1.
The following article is based on a press release by The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC), a coalition of human rights organisations. It was issued at the recent intergovernmental Universal Periodic Review of India (UPR), held in Geneva, Switzerland. The coalition...
A number of African environmental organisations have condemned next month’s Rio-Plus 20 “Earth Summit” as aimed at “the greening of the existing economic system which is not sustainable”. Among their demands are that African countries...
Rio Tinto is pressing ahead with plans to expand its iron ore business despite concerns about a slowdown in China. Our biggest iron ore producer has shrugged off pessimism over a slowdown in the economic growth of its major customer. Rival BHP Billiton said this month...
Kinross Gold Corp has agreed to sell its stake in the Crixas gold mine in Brazil for $220-million (U.S.) as the miner focuses on key assets, including a massive gold deposit in Mauritania that has come under fire after a major writedown. Toronto-based Kinross, the...
Lisa Nandy MP and John McDonnell MP called yesterday for the British Government’s Financial Services Bill to be amended so that companies wishing to list on UK Stock Exchanges would need to report on their human rights record. Repeated reference was made to...
Press statement from the office of Pauline Latham OBE MP, Member of the International Development Select Committee, Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group for the Extractive Industries 23/05/2012 Secret mining in the Congo: Integrity of the UK aid programme...
Vedanta Aluminium’s Indian safety record is tarnished: Now it won’t get two prestigious UK awards A subsidiary of controversy-dogged UK mining company Vedanta Resources has suffered not just one – but two – serious setbacks in its attempts to...
London-listed Vedanta Resources’ iron ore subsidiary, Sesa Goa, is the biggest mining company in India’s internationally-renowned “holiday state”. Most tourists are blissfully unaware of the company’s impacts. But, for many Goan farmers,...
This Clear Spot from April 26th asks which dodgy company most deserves the Greenwash Gold medal in 2012? Who is covering up environmental destruction and devastating communities while pretending to be a good corporate citizen by sponsoring the Olympic games? With so...
