New report from Greenpeace There is a clear scientific consensus that we must halve global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by 2050 or suffer changes to the global climate with catastrophic consequences. Avoiding the most severe impacts of climate change requires...
Peru is violating the rights of indigenous people by failing to secure their consent before energy companies drill on their lands, the United Nations said… Its report was issued three months after clashes between police and indigenous groups, angered over plans to...
The Worldwatch Institute has produced a new report on metal production. In 2008, more than 1.4 billion tons of metals were produced globally-double the quantity of the late 1970s and more than seven times as much as in 1950. Since the mid-point of the twentieth...
Fear that adverse geo-physical events may negatively impact on mining operations is nothing new. Many of the world’s biggest mines are in earthquake or monsoon-prone regions. When the tsunami hit southern Asia in 2004, miners rushed to assure themselves and...
Expulsion of Asia Energy demanded Asia Energy is wholly owned by London-listed GCM Resources The national committee to protect oil, gas, mineral recourses, power and port on Wednesday observed the third anniversary of Phulbari Day with a call for implementation of...
A Papua New Guinea court has found Rio Tinto majority owned Bougainville Copper Limited (BCL) must pay the PNG tax office 50 million kina (A$22 million) in taxes, penalties and interest under ‘pay now, litigate later’ tax laws. A BCL spokesman told AAP it...
Chinese authorities now appear to have settled for charging Rio Tinto staff with bribery, rather than espionage against the state. This is in relation to allegations, made early in July, against the “Stern Gang” – four upper-echelon Rio executives in...
For the first time, Britain’s Environment Agency has prevented an ocean-going vessel leaving home waters, to be scrapped overseas. There are suspicions that the tanker might be heading outside the European Union, or to a non-OECD state such as India or Bangladesh....
India’s generation of children crippled by uranium waste Observer investigation uncovers link between dramatic rise in birth defects in Punjab and pollution from coal-fired power stations Their heads are too large or too small, their limbs too short or too bent....
Is a new wind blowing through India’s villages and hills? Yes, something of a breeze seems to be wafting towards Nyamgiri – site of a proposed massive bauxite mine. This has already proved to be the most controversial of India’s brace of planned...
Although overshadowed by its “battle for Nyamgiri”, Vedanta Resources’ bid for US copper company, Asarco, is probably just as important a strategic priority for the UK company. Notorious hedge fund manager, Philip Falcone, is rumoured to be backing...
India’s National Human Rights Commission has written to the Government of Orissa demanding a full report into its joint venture mining project with British mining giant Vedanta Resources, following a complaint submitted by Survival. The complaint concerns...
