Fast-rising carbon emissions mean that worst-case predictions for climate change are coming true. The world is now firmly on course for the worst-case scenario in terms of climate change, with average global temperatures rising by up to 6C by the end of the century....
Namibian environmentalists warn expansion of uranium mining could devastate spectacular natural landscape. The hidden cost of Britain’s new generation of nuclear power could be the destruction of the desert in Namibia and millions of tonnes of extra greenhouse...
Indonesia’s leading mining advocacy organisation, JATAM, has deplored police violence used on protestors who demonstrated against an Australian iron ore project last month. Claiming this to be just one example of the government “putting foreign investor...
Earlier this year, two of the world’s three leading iron ore producers inked a deal to create what (by market capitalisation) would be the globe’s largest mining venture. BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto are still working on the joint venture deal, but the devil...
The workers at the Chilean mine, who accuse BHP Billiton of stalling contract talks, threaten to invade installations and block roads. See http://www.minesandcommunities.org/article.php?a=9636.
Indian police have arrested an executive and two other officials from the Indian subsidiary of Vedanta, the UK-listed mining company, for alleged negligence in connection with the collapse of a power plant chimney that killed 41 construction workers. The chimney...
In September 2009, a 9-year old boy from Advalpal village in Goa successfully took Vedanta to court, accusing its iron ore subsidiary, Sesa Goa, of illegally dumping wahttps://londonminingnetwork.org/wp-admin/post-new.phpstes above his village, thus causing major...
Three indigenous women from Canada are visiting the United Kingdom and Ireland conducting a 10-day tour to raise awareness about the Alberta Tar Sands. Dubbed ‘the most destructive project on earth’, the Tar Sands are devastating indigenous communities and...
Regardless of whether it’s true or not, Rio Tinto always seems to know what to say. Rio Tinto boasts to the public, gullible politicians and job hopefuls in Michigan that the company is doing well financially, in order to lend the impression that the company’s Eagle...
A new report on building damage in San Marcos Department, Guatemala, says that the most probable cause of the cracked houses near the Marlin Mine, a project of Montana Exploradora, subsidiary of the Canadian Mining Company Goldcorp, are the explosions and heavy...
organised by LMN member group LAMMP, October 2009 It could be considered that the testimonies here discussed are nothing more than anecdotal information, but this is far from true. The rural and indigenous women from Ecuador, Guatemala and Peru who took part in the...
Vedanta and its subsidiaries have been accused of numerous violations of the law. Apart from various legal cases against it because of its Lanjigarh smelter and its Niyamgiri project, mining researcher Roger Moody has produced the following list of just some of the...
