‘Dirty Money – Corporate greenwash and RBS coal finance’ takes the case of the Royal Bank of Scotland, an international bank with interests across the fossil fuel sector that is promoting itself as a genuine actor in climate change efforts. RBS is...
AS talks resurfaced in the past few weeks about re-opening the Panguna copper mine, so too have the critics of Bougainville Copper’s environmental record. One of the most vocal critics is London-based activist and researcher Roger Moody. See...
Too Cheap to Meter: The Top 10 Myths of Nuclear Power http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-rose/too-cheap-to-meter-the-to_b_835730.html Wind power cheaper than nuclear, says EU climate chief Connie Hedegaard says declining cost of offshore wind energy makes it...
As a result of a complaint made in July 2010 the Financial Reporting Review Panel of the FRC has had under review the report and accounts of Rio Tinto plc for the year ended 31 December 2008. Additional information included in the Rio Tinto Annual Report following...
Over the last six years, developments in UK law on company non-financial reporting requirements have proven particularly challenging to follow. Beck Wallace has just produced for CORE a short briefing which attempts to provide an accessible summary of recent changes...
Rio Tinto part owns Northern Dynasty, partner with Anglo American in the Pebble Mine project near Bristol Bay, Alaska. See http://www.nrdc.org/naturesvoice/campaign1.asp.
The Save Palawan Movement has launched a “No to Mining in Palawan” signature campaign in the hope of putting an end to mining activities in Palawan, known as the Philippines’ Last Ecological Frontier. The campaign aims to raise ten million signatures to deliver a...
London-listed GCM Resources’ Phulbari Coal Mine Project would establish one of the world’s largest open pit coal mines in northwest Bangladesh, forcibly displacing as many as 130,000 people, including more than 2,200 indigenous households. Mangrove Action...
Global miner Rio Tinto expects global copper consumption over the next 20-30 years to exceed total historical consumption to date, said chief executive Tom Albanese. See...
Investor enthusiasm for gold may be waning as financial market concerns supporting it over the past two years have started to fade, UK-based investment bank Barclays Capital said in a report on commodity investor attitudes. “‘Avoid gold’ appears to...
As this story was being written, reports from Japan suggest that a full meltdown of the nuclear cores in two reactors at the country’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station may not be averted. Japanese officials have already acknowledged a...
UK film-maker, Simon Chambers, last month visited Korba town in India’s Chhattisgarh state which, in late 2009, suffered one of the country’s worst recent industrial catastrophes. He discovered there was more to this “natural disaster” than...
