A digest of news provided with the help of Atlantis Green Letters and No Nukes News Revealed: British government’s plan to play down Fukushima Internal emails seen by Guardian show PR campaign was launched to protect UK nuclear plans after tsunami in Japan...
London Mining Network believes that the use of uranium produces a radioactive legacy which threatens the wellbeing of thousands of generations to come. Concern about climate change has led some commentators to support nuclear energy as a lower-carbon alternative to...
London Mining Network, in consultation with JATAM (the Indonesian mining advocacy network) has developed the following Draft Declaration on Coal Mining. Many organisations have rightly drawn attention to coal’s contribution to destructive climate change. This...
LMN member group Colombia Solidarity Campaign is very concerned about the possibility of the largest open cast gold mine in South America being built at Cajamarca in Colombia. If you live in the UK, please email your MP about La Colosa gold mine and ask him or her to...
Write a letter to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina or email her today. In the Phulbari area of Northwest Bangladesh, communities have come together to raise their voices against the proposed Phulbari Coal Project–which threatens to turn this fertile agricultural...
UK Tar Sands Network and friends have been in Brussels for the Canada-EU trade talks. The tar sands may be being extracted in Canada, but the debate over the industry’s future is raging in Europe this week. On Monday 11th July, the next round of Canada-EU trade...
BHP Billiton boss Marius Kloppers is poised to report a stunning 75 per cent increase in net profit to an estimated $US21.9 billion, but the sixth death in three years in the Pilbara casts a pall on the achievement. It is not surprising that the majority of fatalities...
Vedanta Resources PLC’s bauxite mining project in eastern India hasn’t received environmental clearance, the Indian government has said. Reacting to a Times of India report that an environment panel had reviewed and cleared the project in Orissa...
Concerned about the plunder of resources caused by rampant mining in Goa, non-resident Goans (NRGs) in London have come together in a bid to end the pillage. The ‘Save Goa Campaign UK’ has been started by Carmen Miranda, a former director of the Panos...
Andhra Pradesh government to approach Indian government over pollution due to Vedanta plant Andhra Pradesh government has decided to approach the Centre with regard to the pollution of river Vamsadhara in Srikakulam district due to effluents from Vedanta aluminium...
Global mining firm Rio Tinto presented ore on Friday to the organisers of the London 2012 Olympics that will be used to create the medals, a gesture likely to be costlier than the last time it was involved thanks to higher metal prices. See...
Freeport-Rio Tinto workers in West Papua claim they are paid only US$1.5 an hour, while other Freeport workers around the world receive at least ten times this amount. Two weeks ago, 8,000 of them went on strike at the Grasberg mine, the world’s biggest single...
