A report posted on the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre website deals with oil company Talisman Energy and the right of Indigenous Peoples to Free Prior Informed Consent before ‘development’ projects are carried out on their land. The report also...
Brussels, May 11 – Business leaders and European lawmakers meeting at the ‘World Economic Forum on Europe’ in Brussels were urged to make companies accountable for the harm they cause people and the environment around the world. See...
The National Committee to Protect Oil, Gas, Mineral Resources, Power and Port odemanded that the government provide an immediate solution to the country’s nagging power crisis instead of indulging in ‘propaganda for multinational corporations’ –...
An Ontario court struck out a lawsuit brought in Ontario by three Ecuadorian campesinos against a Canadian mining company and its directors, whose security forces they say assaulted them in Ecuador for opposing an open pit mine. The Court also dismissed their lawsuit...
After being criticised for failing to implement a mining bill that would bring greater benefit to the country, the Tanzanian government has now passed the law which increases both the royalty on minerals and ensures a government stake in future mining projects. The...
As if he doesn’t have enough to do, it seems that Barrick chairman Peter Munk is now defending capitalism as a whole, as well as his company’s shocking record, at the company’s AGM. He appears to have done this through boasting of achievements,...
The aggression towards Mother Earth and the repeated assaults and violations against our soils, air, forests, rivers, lakes, biodiversity, and the cosmos are assaults against us. Before, we used to ask for permission for everything. Now, coming from developed...
I can’t blame you if you’ve never heard of “Ft. Chip” – after all, there are only 1000 residents, and it’s only accessible by plane or boat. But you should hear about it, because what happens there will affect all of us. The town...
To protect water resources and biological diversity, MEPs want the Commission to propose a complete ban on the use of cyanide mining technologies in the EU before the end of 2011. They also believe companies dealing with the management of waste from the extractive...
South Africa’s biggest union said it had declared a wage dispute with the world’s top diamond producer De Beers, and had asked an arbitration authority to mediate. The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) said in a statement it had declared the dispute...
The prospect of a marriage between the acquisitive mining group Xstrata and its largest shareholder, the Swiss metals trading group Glencore, looked a step closer as speculation mounted that the two sides were positioning themselves for a £40bn merger. See...
The decision by the government of Mongolia to allow Rio Tinto and Ivanhoe Mines Ltd to develop the Oyu Tolgoi mine has caused civil unrest in the country because of a number of claimed legal irregularities in the agreement (not least the lack of a full Environmental...
