The solicitor for six green campaigners says police need to answer “serious questions” about an undercover officer who infiltrated their group. Mike Schwarz said efforts to charge the six with conspiring to shut down the Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station in...
He first warned about climate change 30 years ago. Now James Hansen wants us to get serious about a tax on carbon. He tells Phil England why it’s our last chance. See...
Britain is embroiled in a damaging diplomatic row with Mongolia over the arrest of its most senior spy which is threatening to derail relations between the two countries and freeze British companies out of contracts worth millions of pounds. Although this article does...
This article highlights the close relationship between BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto’s Resolution joint venture in Arizona, and some US environmentalists. The Arizona Audubon Society and the Nature Conservancy seem to have agreed not to publicly criticize the...
Sunday Times reports Xstrata near to buying one of Colombia’s biggest coal miners, currently owned by US group Drummond. Xstrata remains tight-lipped over prospective acquisition. See...
Vedanta is hoping to overturn the Indian Government’s ban on mining in the sacred Niyamgiri Hills in Orissa. See video news item at http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tv/corporate/vedanta-officials-meet-pm-on-niyamgiri-mining-project/videoshow/7217066.cms.
PT Renaissance Capital is an Indonesian bank, controlled by two Indonesian citizens, both educated abroad.(It should not be confused with Russia’s Renaissance Capital to which there is no known link). In 2009, the bank acquired control of one of...
The reported discovery of gold deposits in the Indian State of Goa has got gold miners a little worked up. Will local mining companies get the first rights to mine it? See http://www.mineweb.com/mineweb/view/mineweb/en/page34?oid=118122&sn=Detail&pid=102055.
One of the most explosive wikileaks published late last year escaped the attention of many in the international media – though it was quite widely covered elsewhere, as in this article by Julio Godoy of Inter Press Service (IPS). In this particular instance,...
Further “wikileaks” may demonstrate that US embassy officials in Jakarta were genuinely concerned about “rampant corruption and human rights abuses” by the Indonesian military in West Papua over the past four years. However the cables also show...
In November of last year, Vedanta’s Zambian subsidiary Konkola Copper Mines (KCM) was fined in court for polluting the very river it had poisoned four years earlier in the north of the country. In November 2006, effluents cascaded from a burst slurry pipeline...
A WikiLeaked cable from US embassy, Dhaka shows that Moriarty urged Tawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury, the prime minister’s energy adviser, to authorise coal mining in Phulbari, saying that ‘open-pit mining seemed the best way forward’ (Guardian, December 21). But for whom? He...
