Rio Tinto, accused of using bad science by detractors of its Eagle Mine project, is at it again. This time, the company is using two professors at Northern Michigan University, in Marquette, to do its bidding on a study on community concerns related to new mining...
Rising toxic water levels from abandoned mines threaten Johannesburg’s fresh water supply. Acid drainage from thousands of abandoned mines in Johannesburg has poisoned major lakes in the South African city. Experts say the toxic waters are rising at an alarming...
The Fossil Fuel Industry’s Disinformation Campaign On Climate Change This post examines the question of whether some US companies are guilty of a new kind of crime against humanity that the world has yet to classify. This post is not meant to be a polemic but a...
Representatives of Alaskan Indigenous, commercial and recreational fishermermen and women were in London over the past week to tell Anglo American and its investors to scrap the proposed Pebble Mine copper and gold project in the headwaters of Bristol Bay. At a public...
The Canadian government has blocked mining giant BHP Billiton’s hostile takeover bid for the fertiliser group Potash Corporation. The government said it was not convinced that the deal was in the Canadian interest. BHP said it was “disappointed” with...
The Democratic Republic of Congo’s government is in “very advanced” talks with BHP Billiton Ltd. on the Inga 3 hydropower project, as the world’s biggest mining company seeks electricity for a possible aluminum smelter. Congo formally invited offers to build the...
BHP Billiton has shelved plans for a vast new coal mine under a conservation area south of Sydney, after a scathing review by the state’s Planning Assessment Commission found that society would be better off if the coal remained in the ground. The findings...
Fifty jewellers with billions of pounds in sales and stores around the world have pledged to boycott Anglo American’s planned Pebble project in Alaska, saying they will not use gold from the proposed mine as it threatens Bristol Bay, the world’s most...
Gillian Anderson, Quentin Blake, Joanna Lumley, Sophie Okonedo, and Mark Rylance are amongst the celebrities who have pledged not to travel to Botswana or wear its diamonds until the Bushmen are allowed to live on their ancestral lands in peace. Celebrated jeweller,...
Privatisation of the deep sea bed has already started, as companies move to exploit potentially highly valuable mineral deposits, lying up to 2 kms below the surface and spread over hundreds of square miles. But opposition to oceanic mining – from Indigenous...
Nearly a decade into a court battle involving Rio Tinto and its alleged role in spurring civil war in Bougainville in the South Pacific, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is suggesting mediation. See...
Tourist operators are worried that a surge in uranium mining in the south-west African nation could cause environmental destruction and the loss of their livelihoods. London-based Anglo-Australian mining company Rio Tinto is one of the companies involved. See the...
