Thursday 29 October 2009 “While you are getting a good standard of life … we Wayuu are eating food contaminated with coal … Why, when you have money in your bank accounts, why are our people living in worse conditions?” – Karmen Ramirez, Wayuu from Colombia A...
Representatives of communities facing displacement by the massive Cerrejon mine are attending the Annual General Meeting of BHP Billiton plc in London on Thursday 29 October. BHP Billiton is the biggest mining company in the world. Its headquarters are in Australia...
Monterrico Metals is facing a multimillion-pound claim for damages after protesters were detained and allegedly tortured at an opencast copper plant that the firm is seeking to develop in the mountains of northern Peru. In a case that will highlight growing tensions...
Ministers face embarrassment in the high court when the Treasury is forced to explain why the state-owned Royal Bank of Scotland has been lending money to the controversial mining firm Vedanta Resources, whose activities have been criticised by another government...
The London Declaration is the founding document of Mines and Communities and encapsulates key demands being made by many communities affected by mining around the world. Read and sign on at http://www.minesandcommunities.org/LondonDeclaration.
The Pebble Mine project near Bristol Bay is jointly (50/50) owned by Anglo American and Northern Dynasty Minerals (in which Rio Tinto has a 19.6% stake). Six months ago, a delegation of native Alaskans and commercial salmon fisherpeople visited Anglo American’s...
Despite widespread opposition by Mongolian citzens for several years, their government has now effectively agreed to terms proposed by Ivanhoe and Rio Tinto, for what the companies claim could be the world’s most lucrative copper-gold mine. The go-ahead has...
In one of the largest and most comprehensive conferences of its kind held in Africa, 1,700 delegates from mining-affected Ghanaian communities have issued many urgent demands to their government. These would affect London-listed AngloGold Ashanti. See...
Last week’s conclusion by a UK government agency that Vedanta Resources has violated guidelines laid down by the OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development) is certainly significant. It serves to confirm claims by numerous critics, inside and...
The Archbishop of Canterbury has raised concerns about the Church of England’s investment in Vedanta, the FTSE 100 mining group criticised by the government this week over its plans to open a bauxite operation in a sacred mountain area of India. Speaking at Southwark...
Vedanta’s planned Nyamgiri bauxite mine in Orissa has been the subject of more national and international press column inches than any other Indian venture of its kind. Inevitably, given its notorious propensities, the UK company has sought every opportunity to...
Will the eco hot spot of Niyamgiri hills in tribal Orissa be ravaged by mining? It’s been almost a decade, but this non-violent movement is peaking amid the dense, pristine wild forests, mountains and streams, wildlife, flora and fauna of the remote Niyamgiri...
