Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has staked her minority government’s future on passing the laws, which would force around 500 big polluting companies to pay for carbon emissions through a A$23 ($23.75) per tonne carbon tax from July 2012, ahead of...
A tribal group in the Malaysian state of Sarawak has lost a decade-long struggle to assert that a massive government land seizure violated its rights. The tribe had tried to overturn a decision which opened the way for the notorious Bakun dam project in the 1990s. In...
The Green Party in England and Wales has used its autumn conference in Sheffield to call for an immediate moratorium on fracking. ‘Fracking’ is the controversial process of extracting shale gas, or coal bed methane, from underground by hydraulic fracture...
London-based resource group Anglo American has started phase two production at its Barro Alto nickel operation in Brazil’s Goiás state, the company reported in a release. See...
Protesters have been on hunger strike to prevent nuclear power station construction in Tamil Nadu, India Indefinite Fast Against Nuclear Plant in Koodankulam http://www.justicia.in/indefinite-fast-against-koodankulam-nuclear-plant-5th-day-update/ Anti- Nuclear...
Vying for the title of the London Metal Exchange’s highest priced mainstream metal are nickel and tin. At the time of writing, the cash quotes for these metals panned out as follows: nickel ~$US21,400 per tonne and tin $US23,900 per tonne. See...
The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) has now added the UK to the list of countries, about which concerns have been raised following reports of “adverse effects of operations by transnational corporations registered in...
The world’s largest commodities trader – and one of the mightiest of miners – has published its first-ever sustainability report, many years after the company was established. It makes for sober – if not shocking – reading, revealing...
The Australian reports BHP Mitsubishi’s decision to bypass unions by seeking a direct employee ballot on a new three-year enterprise agreement takes the world’s number one miner into deeply uncharted industrial relations waters. See...
Too many invest in companies – such as London-listed Rio Tinto – without any consideration of the ethics of doing so. Investing in conflict-affected and high-risk areas is a growing concern for responsible businesses and investors. Often times companies...
A decade ago, landowners profoundly impacted by Rio Tinto’s Panguna copper-gold mine in Bougainville tried to bring the company to court in the USA, using the Alien Tort Act. They wanted Rio Tinto to account – and pay massive compensation – for...
The Indian Supreme Court has reserved its order on a plea of Vedanta subsidiary Sterlite Industries Ltd. (SIL), which has sought permission to continue operating its Tamil Nadu-based copper smelting plant which was ordered shut over green concerns. An apex court bench...
