Taking note of the industrialisation boom and Orissa’s fast-paced economic growth, the UK has begun to explore trade and investment opportunities in the State. It has identified sectors like metals and minerals, mining, advanced engineering, infrastructure and...
The struggle continues for trade union rights for contract workers at Colombia’s vast mining complex, Carbones del Cerrejón. ICEM mining affiliate Sintracarbón has been fighting to organize the contract workers at the mine. ICEM is the International Federation of...
The leading UK-listed mining companies have failed to bring down the number of fatalities at their operations over the past five years in spite of considerable efforts to do so. A Financial Times survey of five leading UK-listed mining groups – Rio Tinto, Vedanta,...
Anglo-Australian mining and resources giant BHP Billiton reported its copper production slipped 12% to 271,100t in the three months ended December 31, the second quarter of the company’s 2010 fiscal year. The drops were a result of a strike at the Spence mine in...
Two days before the Michigan State Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) ceased to exist and a week after its director stepped down, DEQ moved to wrap up a long standing fight over permits for a planned nickel sulphide mine by concluding that only buildings may be...
While not the vindication that Rio Tinto subsidiary Kennecott wanted, a company-funded report released on the danger of Kennecott’s massive 5,700 acre tailings impoundment, north of Magna, Utah, says the tailings dam may fail, but will not destroy residential areas,...
Rio Tinto, a company that has made its name exploiting public and indigenous mineral wealth for decades, is set to make off with an astounding $140 billion in publicly-held mineral rights, in Arizona, USA, for what is expected to be North America’s largest copper...
There is no direct London connection to the cases considered below, although Copper Mesa Mining Corporation, formerly Ascendant Copper, did in the past have an agreement with Rio Tinto which may have seen the London major cash in on what Ascendant had found in...
Copper output is rising in Zambia again, but whether that will benefit the country or its people is a moot question. To quote the independent economic analyst in this article: “Agreements with the mines should quickly be renegotiated because the tax regime [is]...
Doctors at hospitals in Belarus and Ukraine are seeing highly unusual rates of cancers, mutations and blood diseases in their young patients. An assessment by the Russian academy of sciences says there have been 60,000 deaths so far in Russia and an estimated 140,000...
The world-wide renaissance of nuclear power that has so often been predicted will not take place in the next few decades. Nuclear energy will be on the decline till the year 2030, and will continue to decline in importance globally. This is the conclusion of the Swiss...
From Exploration to fuel production, this documentary relates the contamination, water consumption, waste generation, costs to the American taxpayer through government subsidies, health impacts,and the CO2 emissions that are caused by the front end of the nuclear fuel...
