Native American activists have set up a tent camp at Eagle Rock, expecting to stay indefinitely peacefully protesting against Rio Tinto subsidiary Kennecott Eagle Minerals Company’s nickel and copper mine on the Yellow Dog Plains in Michigan, USA. See...
Energy Resources of Australia has made it clear it wants to mine the Jabiluka uranium deposit within the Kakadu National Park. ERA owns and operates the nearby Ranger uranium mine, which provides the fuel for one per cent of the world’s electricity. See...
Week of action against RBS Publicly-owned bank RBS was targeted last week for, among other things, its investments in coal, oil, tarsands and UK-registered mining company Vedanta. The company’s AGM was held in Edinburgh on Wednesday 28 April. See...
New report evaluates quality of investment policies of 49 banks; more policies in place, overall quality below what is required. See http://www.banktrack.org/show/news/banktrack_calls_upon_banks_to_close_the_gap_on_investment_policies.
Proposal to declare mass destruction of ecosystems a crime on a par with genocide launched by lawyer. See http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/apr/09/ecocide-crime-genocide-un-environmental-damage. See also the list of ‘top ten ecocides’, which...
Following on Rio Tinto’s problems in China (see http://www.minesandcommunities.org/article.php?a=10056), BHP Billiton is being investigated by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) over violations of anti-graft laws. At present neither the SEC nor the...
Hundreds marked Earth Day in the Philippines by protesting against Xstrata/Indophil’s Tampakan mine, and the coal fired power stations that are planned to power the mine which will be built by the associated local company Alsons. Separately, but on the same day,...
Local fisherfolk are bravely standing up for their rights by bringing a court case against a proposed mine in North Sulawesi that threatens their livelihoods. Archipelago Resources is a Perth, Australia based company but registered in the UK. See...
NGOs slam concessions granted to London Mining plc Peoples’ organisations in Sierra Leone are up in arms about unacceptable, allegedly illegal concessions, conferred on a UK mining company. They say it threatens to derail the country’s existing mining...
Greystar Resources is a Canadian company listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange, but it also has a listing on London’s Alternative Investment Market. Greystar has been told by the Colombian government to file a new environmental impact assessment (EIA) for its...
In December 2009, the Western Shoshone won a legal victory on the expansion of Barrick Gold’s key Cortez gold mine in Nevada. Yet despite this the company proceeded with the project. It now appears that Barrick has been granted a “more tailored”...
