Jubilee South Africa Press Statement 14 December 2009 Unemployed people from Mapela and Mokopane in Limpopo province will march to Anglo Platinum PPL mine tomorrow to highlight the lack of employment in and around the mine. Anglo Platinum and other mining companies...
Metals giant Vedanta Resources’ Indian subsidiary has launched an unprecedented attack on Survival International, apparently to drive its researchers out of an area where the company is planning to mine. See http://www.survivalinternational.org/news/5359.
This week, the Mines and Communities website (http://www.minesandcommunities.org) has posted a set of articles about coal and climate change. Roger Moody, of Nostromo Research, introduces the postings below. Within recent months, a Scandinavian capital has become the...
By George Monbiot, published in The Guardian 8th December 2009 Shocked by the hacked emails? Wait till you see what the other side’s been up to. The first case study I’ve posted reveals how a coalition of US coal companies sought to persuade people that the science is...
Press release from LMN member group CATAPA On Wednesday 2nd of December in the afternoon, a new violent confrontation between local residents and police occurred in the town of Cajas Canchaque, district of Carmen de la Frontera, in the province of Huancabamba (Piura,...
Jubilee South Africa Press Statement 3 December 2009 ANGLO PLATINUM BULLDOZES SEKURUWE COMMUNITY’S MEALIE FIELDS Today the Sekuruwe community stood and watched as Anglo Platinum proceeded to bulldoze land the community used for ploughing fields. This aggressive...
An investigation by aid agency CAFOD and Canada’s Development and Peace has uncovered documents showing water contamination at a Honduras mine owned by multi-million dollar mining company Goldcorp. Among the investors in Goldcorp are British-based AXA Investment...
Jubilee South Africa Press Statement, I December 2009 The police in Mokopane, Limpopo Province, arrested two activists from Ga Machikiri and Ga Mokaba and are searching for others from Ga Mokaba and Ga Molekane. The activists organised pickets over the past weekend in...
Sixteen years of fraud? Vedanta Resources’ launch on London’s stock exchange in late 2003 was the second biggest UK floatation of that year – and the largest-ever by an Indian company. It had taken several months for the UK’s Financial Services...
If you live in the United Kingdom, please ask your MP to sign the below Early Day Motion in Parliament on Vedanta plc. See http://edmi.parliament.uk/EDMi/EDMDetails.aspx?EDMID=39761&SESSION=903. Please contact them in whichever way you think is best. For example,...
BHP Billiton’s response to the ‘BHP Billiton: Undermining the Future – Alternative Annual Report 2009’ is wholly inadequate. BHP Billiton has a record of failing to respond to detailed criticisms of its operations. It simply refers people to...
BHP Billiton had its Australian AGM picketed by protesters. But inside the meeting the chairman of BHP Billiton, Don Argus, did not seem interested in the environmental issues. He was saying that governments have to start thinking about scaling back their stimulus...
