The government isn’t telling us the true cost of nuclear waste disposal UK plans for ten new nuclear power plants will create £80 billion worth of radioactive waste that we still have no secure way of disposing. See...
Four years on from a court victory which saw the Kalahari Bushmen win the right to live on their ancestral lands, the Botswana government has issued a statement flouting the ruling. Survival International believes that the government’s attitude to the Bushmen is...
Chinese steel giant Sinosteel Corporation and Rio Tinto have signed an agreement to extend their cooperation at the Channar iron ore project. From 2012 to 2017, the project will produce an additional 50 million tonnes of ore every year while Sinosteel sells the...
Copper Development Corporation has listed on London’s Alternative Investment Market, having raised £40.7m to develop its copper mining project in the Philippines. See...
The London-based African Minerals firm claims its efforts to mine a whopping 11.7 billion tons of iron ore will bring $1.75 billion in foreign investment to Sierra Leone. Nine years after the end of Sierra Leone’s notoriously grisly civil war, the small West...
President Obama stated that the US now “supports” the United Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. US support is no trivial change in policy, since the US was the last of the original four countries to not endorse it when the UN General Assembly...
Demonstration outside GCM Resources AGM against Phulbari Mine in Bangladesh A demonstration was held on 6 December outside the London AGM of GCM Resources against the open-cast coal mine project proposal in Phulbari, in the north west Dinajpur district of Bangladesh....
From Hansard, 2 December 2010 Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer said: My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Alton, for drawing attention to the Conservative Human Rights Commission. Like the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of Wakefield, I was...
Australia’s mining industry – in which London-listed BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto and Xstrata play leading roles – is propagating a dark underbelly of alcohol-fuelled violence, prostitution and mental health, the first study to examine social impacts of...
Rio announces Chinalco exploration tie-up, extends Sinosteel JV Global miner Rio Tinto will explore mainland China for mineral deposits in a joint venture (JV) with State-owned Chinalco, CEO Tom Albanese announced on Friday. The two companies signed a memorandum of...
Anglo American subsidiary Anglo Platinum, the world’s leading name in the mining of platinum group metals, has confirmed initiation of legal process by the Modikwa Joint Venture (Anglo Platinum and Johannesburg-listed African Rainbow Minerals, or ARM) on nine...
But does it really set a precedent? Four years ago, members of South Africa’s Bengwenyama-ye-Maswazi community sued a company called Genorah, along with various government officials, including the mines’ minister. They sought cancellation of prospecting...
