Ah, the desperate whiff of worried PRs. London-listed mining giant Vedanta Resources had a bruising encounter with tribal rights charity Survival International last year. Now, says the charity, “it appears that Vedanta has sent down its spies”. See...
The Orissa High Court concluded hearing on the petition filed by Vedanta Aluminium Company Ltd challenging the Centre’s withdrawal of permission for expansion of its Lanjigarh aluminium refinery from 1 to 6 MTPA and also cancelling the public hearing held on April 25,...
Anglo-Australian miner Rio Tinto has been granted a three-month extension before it must formally give up its rights to part of Guinea’s giant Simandou iron ore concession. Rio, which invested $680 million in what it said is the world’s largest undeveloped...
Australian mining company Riversdale’s biggest shareholder, Indian company Tata Steel, has upped its stake setting the stage for a long drawn out battle with Rio Tinto which, analysts aver, may not be able to get full control. See...
Urgent concern for safety of human rights defenders of San Miguel Ixtahuacán following peaceful protests We denounce the human rights violations and abuses committed against peaceful protesters in San Miguel Ixtahuacán, Guatemala. The protest, demanding compliance...
Tucked away in the hills of northeastern Colombia, a gold mine led by Canada’s Greystar has split local communities between those who call it a blessing and environmentalists who brand it a curse. The Angostura project illustrates one risk facing new oil and...
Nick Hildyard works with LMN member group The Corner House, a pressure group and think tank in the UK, known for, among other things, taking the UK government to court for squashing a police investigation into alleged corruption by arms manufacturer BAE Systems in...
A new scientific study, published by the New York Academy of Sciences, estimates that the burning of US coal costs the nation up to US$500 billion a year in “hidden” health, economic and environmental costs. The study’s author, Dr Paul Epstein,...
Britain is throwing its weight behind European efforts to force oil and mining companies to publish details of every penny they pay to governments in poor countries where they operate. George Osborne told his fellow G20 finance ministers in Paris on Saturday that the...
Lobby groups including Amnesty International and the Corporate Responsibility Coalition have written to Jonathan Djanogly, a Justice minister, about proposals to reform civil litigation funding and costs. They believe that the proposals by Lord Justice Jackson to...
A Canadian perspective: “So maybe you didn’t lose a night’s sleep when the TMX group, the owner of the Toronto Stock Exchange, announced plans to merge with the London Stock Exchange Group. But the change in ownership of Canada’s biggest stock...
More than 50 jewellers, including Tiffany & Co., Zale Corp., and Jostens, have now signed on to a campaign launched in 2008 to boycott gold from a controversial mining project in Alaska’s Bristol Bay watershed. The site of the Pebble Mine is home to one of...
