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...
QMM or QIT Madagascar Minerals stopped all activities on Tuesday, October 26, 2010. It occurred after the persisting roadblock set by the Fagnomba movement at Mandena. Despite Rio Tinto’s promises of exemplary behaviour, clearly not everyone around its QMM...
Rahul Gandhi claimed that he will represent the tribal people in Delhi’s power corridors. It is good that he has decided to raise the issue of displacement and dispossession of the people, their lands and forests but Niyamgiri is not just one exception. While Vedanta...
Keeping in line with the order of the Union Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF), Vedanta Aluminium Ltd (VAL) has provided Rs OSPCB10 crore (100 million Rupees) bank guarantee to the Orissa State Pollution Control Board (OSPCB) as a safeguard against...
Ethnic tribals of Niyamgiri area organised a rally against the Vedanta Alumina Limited (VAL) at Lanjigarh in Kalahandi district on Saturday. It was held at a juncture when the VAL and the Orissa government are contemplating to approach the Supreme Court against the...
If not for the government’s opposition, flagship explorer ONGC would have bought the prolific oilfields in Rajasthan’s Barmer district in 2004 for just $2.4 billion from Cairn India, which is now being taken over by NRI metals tycoon Anil Agarwal’s...
Vedanta Group firm Sesa Goa is planning an investment of over Rs 30,000 crore (300 billion Rupees, around 4.2 billion pounds sterling) in the steel space in Orissa and Jharkhand and may rope in a global company to jointly run the ventures, the company said. “We...
PRESS RELEASE HUMAN CHAIN TO PROTEST OPEN-PIT MINING IN PHULBARI LONDON, 30 October 2010 – A human chain forming event has been observed in Altab Ali Park in East London on the 29th October 2010 to express solidarity with the Bangladeshi people’s movement...
Environmental groups maintain opposition despite the government’s active promotion of the Tampakan mining project. The groups headed by Kalikasan People’s Network for the Environment (Kalikasan PNE) and Defend Patrimony! Alliance said that among the bases...
Anglo Platinum is controlled by London-based Anglo American plc. Jubilee South Africa and IANRA South Africa Press Statement, 25 October 2010 Jubilee Mokopane will be marching with the support of IANRA South Africa to the Anglo Platinum PPL mine north west of the town...
Canada is the home of even more mining companies than London, though more mining finance is raised in London than on the Toronto Stock Exchange. Efforts to rein in Canadian companies overseas have made progress – but the latest attempt to pass legislation in...
The “mission” to cost environmental destruction, and include the loss of natural resources in government and business balance sheets, has reached a new stage. The final report of “The Economics of Ecoystems and Biodiversity” (TEEB) exercise,...
