The University of Toronto has announced that their new School of Global Affairs will be built with what many regard as the “blood money” of Peter Munk, CEO of Barrick Gold. Munk has praised brutal Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet for “transforming...
A Canadian television director sent a four-person crew to investigate questions about Canadian mining companies operating in eastern and western Guatemala. At the Marlin Mine, operated by GoldCorp, local residents claim the massive mining projects leave little value...
Drive up from the district head-quarters of Bhawanipatna to Vedanta’s project site in Lanjigarh, and it is hard to miss the sight of rocks and trees clinging to the steep flanks of every hill along the way. This part of Kalahandi is mostly flat agrarian land...
Charges of environmental damage and human rights violations are forcing Vedanta group to change. Founder Anil Agarwal has to ensure the changes are more than cosmetic. See http://business.in.com/article/boardroom/can-vedanta-find-its-soul/12382/1.
Vedanta Resources promoter Anil Agarwal was just a scrap trader in Mumbai at the age of 20. Nearly four decades later, he is taking on Anglo-Swiss mining giant Xstrata and China Metallurgical to buy Anglo American’s zinc business. See...
and Roman Abramovitch at number 2… Indian-born steel baron Lakshmi Mittal has topped The Sunday Times Rich List 2010, as his fortune doubled this year to 22.45 billion pounds, thanks to the recovery in steel markets. Mittal claimed the spot for the sixth...
A controversial clean water permit for a coal mine complex sited at a Navajo and Hopi sacred mountain is once again up for review by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Peabody Western Coal Company seeks a renewal of its water quality permit for the Black...
Bolivian President Evo Morales’ Courageous Speech at World People’s Conference on Climate Change Morales’ choice of opening words as well as his convening of this unprecedented global mobilization represents more than a greening of revolutionary...
Blockbuster Hollywood director James Cameron said that he is committed to helping indigenous peoples around the world who, like the fictitious Na’vi in his film Avatar, are “caught at the tectonic interface between the expansion of our technical...
On 12 April, London Mining Network, Survival International, BankTrack, Urgewald, ASAR, Les Amis de la Terre, Setem, Netwerk Vlaanderen, Amigos da Terra and other organisations wrote to institutional investors in Vedanta, urging them to disinvest from the company....
Anglo American was challenged at its April 22 AGM in London on a range of issues including a legacy of sickness among former miners in South Africa, removals of communities by subsidiary Anglo Platinum in South Africa and part-owned Cerrejon Coal in Colombia, a...
