Vedanta plc’s Indian iron ore mining subsidiary, Sesa Goa, wants the government of Goa to build a road which would convey ore to a new mining jetty. Villagers are outraged at the proposal, claiming that it violates coastal zoning legislation, doesn’t serve...
Why does England have weaker rules on opencast mining than Wales and Scotland? In response to public complaints, the governments of Wales and Scotland both changed their planning policies. They now have buffer zones for opencast coal mines. What this means is that...
The World Bank has published its Extractive Industries Annual Review for 2010. Among the Review’s key points were that: WB-IFC investments in oil and gas far outstrip that in mining Over the past five years, the Bank’s investment in mining has comprised...
In an incisive and detailed piece of research, African author Khadija Sharife examines an extremely “complex and opaque” web of recent wheeling, dealing, accusation and counter-accusation in South Africa. Anglo American – among the world’s...
Mongolia’s government may safely be described as pro-mining. It wants to develop the mineral resources of its country – and it expects to gain significant economic, social and political benefits from expansion of the mining sector. Government officials want the...
Who threatens us most – peaceful campaigners or a private militia run by police chiefs? This is what the head of a police unit set up to monitor domestic extremism said in 2009. “I’ve never said – and we don’t see – that any environmentalist is going to or...
Northwest and Ethical Investments, the Canadian socially responsible investment management firm with around C$4.5bn (€3.4bn) in assets under management, has dumped FTSE100-listed metals and mining group Vedanta over lack of progress on human rights and environmental,...
Farmers in Canada say a high profile carbon sequestration experiment is a bubbling, dangerous failure. See http://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2011/01/12/PromiseOfPumpingCO2/
Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto has come under intense criticism for its association with a small company called La Muriel Mining in Colombia (1). La Muriel was accused of failing to consult Indigenous and Afro-descendant communities adequately at its Mande...
In recent months, there has been much discussion of the possibility of re-opening the Panguna copper mine on the Pacific island of Bougainville (Mekamui). The mine is owned by Rio Tinto subsidiary Bougainville Copper Ltd. Operation of the mine led to a war of...
PLEASE SUPPORT THE STUDENTS, LECTURERS AND COMMUNITY OF TOLIMA SO THAT THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF THE CAJAMARCA MINE CAN BE RESEARCHED OBJECTIVELY AND INDEPENDENTLY. Students and lecturers at the University of Tolima in Ibagué, Colombia, are voicing their strong...
As storm clouds break, London Calling gets biblical: a plague of floods, crocs, and ultimate darkness? Sometimes “natural events” do more to dent a company’s share price than criticisms by campaigners at a shareholders annual general meeting. That...
