Representatives from some of Canada’s First Nations demanded in person that the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) stops financing the controversial tar sands industry in Alberta, Canada, at the bank’s AGM. See...
Last week Switzerland-based Glencore – the world’s biggest minerals trader – announced it would seek a listing on the London and Hong Kong Stock exchanges in mid-May. Amid the issues being raised about the firm’s transparency and recent record,...
It’s been an inspiring tale of struggle. In response to a concerted campaign, at the end of March Colombia’s government (hardly noted for enforcing best environmental or social standards) told Greystar Resources it couldn’t operate an open-pit gold...
Southeast Asia’s largest known unexploited copper and gold deposit lies in a remote mountain area just east of Tampakan, about 60km north of General Santos, the Philippines’ southernmost city. London-listed Xstrata, the fourth-largest copper producer in...
The people surrounding the Vedanta Alumina Project at Lanjigarh narrowly avoided a disaster on 5th April 2011. A crack developed in the dam holding back the company’s toxic red mud waste pond after a 45 minute thunder shower at 1:00 PM on 5th April 2011. Because...
South Korean giant Posco’s integrated steel plant in Orissa, India, could face another hurdle as the palli sabhas (local bodies set up to determine forest rights under the Forest Rights Act) of Dhinkia, Gobindpur and nearby villages plan to approve several...
In Mexico, communities are resisting the mining plans of a small London-listed company, run from Peru. See film We Have Everything And Lack Everything at...
There are growing concerns about financial donations from mining companies to Canadian university campuses. University faculties in Argentina have also been rejecting such corporate blandishments. In March 2011, the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters at ...
How nuclear apologists mislead the world over radiation By Helen Caldicott in response to George Monbiot’s public attack http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/apr/11/nuclear-apologists-radiation Japan Plant Emits More Radiation After Cooling Lapse...
One of the highlights of protests at last week’s Rio Tinto Annual General Meeting was the presentation of an appeal to the UN from Australian Aboriginal elder, Yvonne Margarula – raised by a British colleague to the company chairman. In her letter Yvonne...
Nostromo Research 14 April 2011 LONDON -Chalid Muhammad, one of Indonesia’s leading Green activists, attended the Annual Shareholders Meeting of the Rio Tito mining corporation, held in London today (April 14 2011). Chalid had flown from Jakarta especially to present...
Pollution from the copper mine chosen to produce metal for the medals awarded at the 2012 London Olympics is responsible for up to 200 premature deaths each year, campaigners have claimed. See...
