Orissa Mining Corporation (OMC), the mining body of the Orissa government, was planning to appeal in the Supreme Court on Monday for speedy hearing of its case it filed against the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) last week. Almost six months after the MoEF...
For Posco India, trouble for its proposed 12 million tonne steel project seems to be far from over. The South Korean steel major, which has been encountering strong opposition for five years despite key government clearances, on Sunday faced a strong political rally...
The government of the world’s poorest state (by aggregated numbers of impoverished people) has been accused of granting tax concessions to corporate enterprises amounting to 2. 4 billion rupees – around US$ 48 million – each day. We say...
Ruling places BP in breach of its loan agreements, say campaigners. The ruling sets a major precedent. In future, multinationals will have to take into account the human rights context in which they operate, including the risk of intimidation, when designing and...
In the following letter to Guatemalan authorities and Goldcorp Inc., the Coalition Against Unjust Mining in Guatemala (CAMIGUA) expresses its profound concern following reports of violence in the municipality of San Miguel Ixtahuacán. CAMIGUA believes that the recent...
Conflict between locals and AIM-listed Greystar Resources forced the suspention of a public hearing about the Angostura project. See http://www.minesandcommunities.org/article.php?a=10776.
There are a number of options for Glencore to follow in terms of generating access to major capital and not all of them involve the mooted London IPO (initial public share offering on the London Stock Exchange). See...
Campaign groups in the Philippines now have two potential alternative mining laws being discussed by the country’s Congress, as a response to the constant concerns raised by civil society over the activities of mining companies. The new bill, the Minerals...
The environmental impact study for Xstrata’s Las Bambas copper project, in Apurimac, has been approved by Peru’s mining ministry. Peruvian NGO CooperAccion presented a set of observations to the study, when it was still under evaluation, and some of the...
Since 2007, the Mines and Communities Network has warned of huge potential risks posed by marine (sea-bed) mining – particularly that proposed for waters surrounding Papua New Guinea. Despite growing criticism of the practice, the European Union is now reported...
Tayloring a new Panguna mine for Bougainville: Rio Tinto MD wades into murky waters Recently, the Managing Director of Rio Tinto’s subsidiary, Bougainville Copper Ltd (BCL), made statements which were breathtaking in their complacency. Arguing that his...
Last December massive storms hit the world’s largest single coking coal mining zone, in Queensland, Australia, caused billions of dollar’s worth of damage and disruption. All the region’s major coal mining companies rushed to invoke the “force...
