Daphne Hare moved to Mount Isa, a remote Queensland mining town, in 2002, hoping for a share of the good times. The town, situated next to Australia’s biggest lead mine and smelter, was booming, thanks to global demand for the metal, used mainly in car...
If you had £54bn, what would you do with it? How about lending some to a hard-up extractive company scrambling for oil in the civil-war ravaged Congo? Or maybe backing a few climate-wrecking coal power plants? Or, if that gets boring, how about supporting a mining...
Two security officers were killed and seven are still missing after a group of 20 people attacked and burned a Rio Blanco Cooper mining camp, said the company’s general manager, Jian Wu. The bizarre incident occurred early Sunday in Carmen de la Frontera...
Peru Support Group and CAFOD Statement On Friday 16th October a High Court decision upheld the injunction to freeze the assets of British mining company Monterrico Metals. Mrs Justice Gloster ruled that the Claimants had a ‘good arguable case’ against...
Another year – and another BHP Billiton AGM, held in London on October 29 2009. This year the company more than ever boasted of its continual march to world domination (or at least, domination of the mining industry); as well as a sage-like ability to guess...
A company in which the Church of England has a £29 million shareholding will face allegations of human rights abuses and widespread environmental destruction as campaigners publish an ‘alternative report’ into its activities. The Church is seeking to profit from a...
A GROUP of irate farmers has launched a legal challenge against BHP Billiton in to bid to stop the company from developing coalfields in the north-west of New South Wales, Australia. See http://www.theage.com.au/business/farmers-take-on-bhp-20091026-hgol.html.
Philippines: Working Group on Mining comments on company responses to “Mining or Food?” report BHP Billiton declines to comment. See http://www.business-humanrights.org/Documents/MiningorFood.
BHP Billiton, the world’s biggest mining company, and partner Asiaticus Management Corp. have started talks in Singapore to resolve an ownership row over the Pujada nickel project in Davao Oriental, Philippines. See...
The union on strike since October 13 at BHP Billiton’s Spence copper mine in Chile’s northern region II has broken off contacts with the company after meeting to negotiate but without reaching an agreement, union spokesperson Andrés Ramírez told...
An Orissa police chief has declared that Vedanta’s Balco subsidiary deliberately mislead the public, when reporting on September’s chimney collapse at the Korba alumininum complex. The disaster killed over forty – and possibly substantially more...
Bianca Jagger and tribal leaders of the Kondh people have been joined by 47 internationally respected opinion makers to send an open letter to India’s Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh. Names include Judge Weeramantry, Former Vice President International Court of...
