Protesters interrupted the Canada-Europe Energy Round table in London on Tuesday, to expose the UK government’s opposition to European legislation, which would label tar sands oil as highly polluting. The campaigners stripped down to Union Jack boxers and maple leaf...
Security forces have opened fire on striking Freeport miners, killing at least one person and injuring six others. More than 1,000 workers were involved in the clashes on Monday at the Grasberg complex, one of the world’s biggest gold and copper mines, in...
The world’s second and third largest iron ore mining companies, Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton, are set to overtake premier producer, Brazil’s Vale, in the next few years. While both companies (notably Rio Tinto) have interests in foreign iron ore sources, the...
First it was off- and now it’s apparently on again. At the end of last month, under considerable pressure from some members of its own parliament, the Mongolian government said it would re-negotiate the Oyu Tolgoi agreement in order to increase its interest to...
At around midnight on Friday, 10 horsemen charged into the exploration camp and set fire to outbuildings, said Talas Copper Gold, a joint venture between the British company Orsu Metals and South African miner Gold Fields. See...
Xstrata to acquire Canadian metallurgical coal deposit Xstrata Coal has entered into an agreement to acquire the Lossan metallurgical coal deposit in British Columbia, Canada, from Cline Mining for C$40m ($38.45m). The coal deposit is located in the Peace River...
Re: Lodge House opencast expansion, planning application CM6/0910/94 to extract an additional 748,000 tonnes of coal from an extension to the mine adjacent to the village: Derbyshire County Council as the Mineral Planning Authority, had indicated that it would oppose...
BHP Billiton’s proposed Inga 3 hyropower scheme in DR Congo, and its existing Mphanda Nkugwa dam in Mozambique – both designed to provide electricity for the company’s aluminium plants – come under fire from the former Africa programme director of the...
Essar Group, the Indian company whose businesses range from shipping to power, is considering listing infrastructure assets in London to raise about $750 million, three people with knowledge of the matter said. JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) and Credit Suisse Group AG...
The opposition Congress Party has asked Chhattisgarh’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to proceed under the state’s stringent public security law against the Essar group, which is alleged to have provided huge protection money to Maoist rebels. See...
Last week an ‘ecocide trial’ was held in London. The trial tested barrister Polly Higgins’ proposal for a crime of Ecocide – to hold to account directors of companies (rather than the company) who cause extensive damage to ecosystems to such an...
Toronto’s leading newspaper, The Globe and Mail, has published a lengthy examination of the activities of the world’s second biggest gold miner in the east African state of Tanzania. Its report – while giving space to the company’s own...
