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...
Although Rio has now regained third position in the global hierarchy (based on its market capitalisation) Sergeant ascribes this achievement almost wholly to the company’s ascendancy in the seaborne iron ore trade. (What he doesn’t add is that, as last...
Judge upholds permits for Rio Tinto subsidiary’s mine in USA, but with caveat Administrative Law Judge Richard Patterson announced on Tuesday, August 18, that he will uphold permits issued to Kennecott Eagle Minerals Company by the Michigan Department of...
A number of local authorities in Britain, with investments in Vedanta, are coming under some pressure, among them: London Borough of Wandsworth Leicestershire County Council Cheshire West and Chester and London Borough of Havering.
Niyamgiri Surakshya Samiti (NSS) alleged that Vedanta Alumina, which has put up a one million tonne per annum capacity alumina refinery plant at Lanjigarh in Kalahandi district, took up expansion work without obtaining any environmental clearance. See...
Women and children struggle against Anglo American… “Bell of Valor of Women and Children” (Kampana ng Katapangan ng mga kababaihan at Kabataan) is a short video documentary about women and children defending their land and survival against...
They’re young, educated, angry – and they’re women. They are prominent leaders of a social movement in Colombia which is fighting against a mine proposed by Africa’s leading gold mining outfit, London-listed AngloGold Ashanti. Now they’re...
Serrania de San Lucas is a rainforest-covered massif rising to 2,300 metres (7,500 feet) in northern Colombia. Despite being little-explored and containing several endangered species, the forest is threatened by industrial gold mining operations, according to the...
Only the European Union seems concerned to exercise further constraints on the military junta; Obama may now actually loosen the noose, in exchange for the release of democratic party leader, Aung San Suu Kyi. This is despite the Bush government’s claim last...
Five injured in renewed attacks at Freeport-Rio Tinto Grasberg copper/gold mine A series of attacks have resumed near Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold’s Grasberg’s mine in Indonesia’s Papua Province. Five Freeport employees traveling by bus were...
The Colombian Inter-Church Commission for Justice and Peace (CIJP) has replied to accusations against it by Muriel Mining, with which Rio Tinto has an agreement over a possible joint venture involving a copper, gold and molybdenum project in north western Colombia....
Despite recently calling upon mining companies to conserve fresh water usage within the country, the Chilean government is now mooting its importation from Argentina. Last year, BHP Billiton seriously considered draining water from across the Chile-Argentina border....
