Ever since its triumphant listing on the London Stock Exchange in December 2003, Vedanta Resources has moved several big steps forward, yet suffered several setbacks at the same time. Last month, the company announced it was exploring for iron ore in Liberia. This...
Ever since the fleet-footed runners and chariot races of ancient Greece, ethics have been at the root of the Olympic games. There’s an Olympic oath, creed, and hymn. And then there’s the torch, which has come to represent purity or goodwill, depending on...
Debate continues raging over the role played by Rio Tinto’s subsidiary Bougainville Copper Ltd (BCL) in the decade-long war waged by Papua New Guinea “security” forces on the people of Bougainville from 1988 onwards. One of the key proponents of the...
A tribe in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, USA, is appealing to the United Nations in an effort to restrain sulphide mining. The tribe hopes to strengthen its position through an international agreement signed by the Obama Administration. The Keweenaw Bay Indian...
Two days of rioting over pay by workers from London-listed African Minerals’ Sierra Leone mine have left one woman dead and at least six injured, witnesses and medical staff said. The company said operations had seen “no significant impact”. See...
An Australian Aboriginal elder has lost his challenge to the federal government’s approval of expansion of the world’s biggest uranium mine. Kevin Buzzacott had argued that insufficient consideration had been paid to the operation’s long-term impacts...
The M4 movement unites groups and organisations in Panama, México, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, United States and Canada. A recent statement by the movement condemns Goldcorp’s Marlin mine in Guatemala. Goldcorp is a Canadian company with British...
Critical shareholders took the world’s second biggest dedicated gold producer to task at its annual general meeting last week. They claimed the company had not implemented various promises to be “socially responsible”. Moreover, its failure to obtain...
If multinationals will do anything to control the public debate, how can indigenous peoples ever assert their rights? See new film on Monterrico Metals by award-winning film-maker and LMN supporter Mikey Watts at...
MEDIA RELEASE AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR FREE ALLIANCE 1st May 2012 DEMOCRACY AT A PRICE: DECISION BY BHP BILLITON AND FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO SEEK COSTS FROM ARABUNNA ELDER PUNITIVE AND VINDICTIVE The Australian Nuclear Free Alliance (ANFA) is deeply concerned by the decision...
Amidst its lofty rhetoric about excellence and sustainability the London Olympics have chosen some of the world’s most unethical companies as corporate sponsors. Phil England presents powerful first-hand testimonies from victims and campaigners dismayed and...
If you live in the UK, please ask your MP to sign Early Day Motion 2951: Greenwash Gold 2012 ‘That this House welcomes the launch by Bhopal Medical Appeal, London Mining Network and UK Tar Sands Network of the Greenwash Gold 2012 awards exposing the record of...
