Mining group BHP Billiton was on Friday still considering the contents of a South Gauteng High Court ruling, which ordered that State-owned power utility Eskom should release information and records relating to electricity sales contracts with BHP Billiton’s Hillside...
BHP Billiton may delay expansion of Olympic Dam mine “There hasn’t been a [nuclear] plant in the world built without the relevant government assuming much of the construction, operating and financing risk. There is not a single insurer, banker or...
A strike at Escondida, the world’s biggest copper mine, started on July 21. It sparked stoppage threats at other mines across Chile, the globe’s’s top copper producer. (Workers at Collahuasi, the world’s third most productive copper mine, also...
But fears of the consequences are growing The quest for polymetallic nodules lying at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean has been stepped up as seabed exploration plans are approved by the International Seabed Authority (SA) for the island states of Fiji, Nauru and...
In a case that may have implications for mining companies, the oil giant faces a bill of hundreds of millions of dollars following class action suit brought on behalf of communities in Bodo, Ogoniland. See...
An introduction to NR Investments Ltd provides an expose of the connections between some wealthy British, Russian and Indonesian financiers, government representatives and celebrities, and destructive mining projects. See...
Australia’s Greens Party is going to push for legislation preventing Australian mining companies from engaging in environmental practices overseas that they couldn’t do at home. This would affect, among others, BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto, both joint-listed...
Bangladesh needs to adopt cleaner technology to harness power from coal so as not to aggravate the climate change situation in the country, according to a visiting UK official. Speaking in an interview with few journalists, John Ashton, special representative for the...
Japan’s Fukushima catastrophe brings big radiation spikes to British Columbia “There have been massive radiation spikes in Canada because of Fukushima,” said Gordon Edwards, president of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility. “The authorities don’t want...
Submissions to the UN Committee on the Elimination of all forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD) 79th Session with regard to the United Kingdom’s responsibility to ensure respect for the rights of Indigenous Peoples overseas in the context of UK transnational...
Doubts have been raised in Colombia about possible adverse environmental issues in relation to AngloGold Ashanti’s big La Colosa gold project See http://www.mineweb.com/mineweb/view/mineweb/en/page103118?oid=132411&sn=Detail&pid=92730. Colombia’s...
