Takeover battle with Xstrata takes surreal turn as Graham Boustred dismisses Cynthia Carroll as sexually frustrated. See http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/jul/09/boustred-attacks-carroll.
The Cerrejon mine is owned by London-listed Anglo American, BHP Billiton and Xstrata. The National Union of the Coal Industry, SINTRACARBON, brings to local, national and international attention the attack by the contracting firm, SOTRANS, on the labour rights of its...
In a protected area of the Cordillera Central, Colombia’s central mountain range, gold mining plans are clashing with the desire of farmers, activists and environmental officials to preserve forests and water resources. A movement made up of 25 international,...
When LMN member group Colombia Solidarity Campaign made a submission to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights about London-based Rio Tinto’s association with Muriel Mining Corporation in Colombia, Muriel mining accused the Colombian Interchurch...
An Ecumenical Delegation that visited Alberta in Canada to learn more about the tar sands’ impacts on people and the earth has issued a concluding statement that tar sands pose complex questions requiring public discussion, independent studies on their cumulative...
EIRIS (Experts In Responsibile Investment Solutions) and Survival International are supporting a UN Principles for Responsible Investment programme to facilitate engagement between investors and companies to promote and respect the rights of the world’s 370 million...
Last month, the unique African Initiative on Mining, Environment and Society (AIMES) held its eleventh annual meeting in Nairobi. It has long been a savage paradox that the world’s richest mineral-endowed continent is also home to its most impoverished peoples....
15 July 2009 Survival International lodged two urgent appeals today to stop a controversial bauxite mine in India. Survival has called on both the UN and India’s National Human Rights Committee to stop Vedanta Resources’ mine in the Niyamgiri Hills, Orissa. The mine...
In June 2009, the Expert Appraisal Committee (EAC) of India’s Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) met to finally consider an application, first made in 2007 by UK-listed Vedanta Resources plc, for a major expansion of its company’s bauxite mines at...
9 July 2009 The Indian government should immediately withdraw the clearance granted to a massive mining project that threatens the lives and livelihoods of a protected indigenous community living there, Amnesty International said today. In April 2009, Indian...
China’s coal mining causes birth defects, says Beijing professor A Chinese health and environment professor has attributed the country’s excessive rise in development deficiencies among newborn children, to pollution caused by coal mining. See...
Commentary by Nostromo Research, 1st July 2009 If anything is certain in mining, it’s that nothing is certain. Rio Tinto recently reneged on its deal with Chinalco, which would have seen this massive Chinese state enterprise acquiring nearly 20% of the...
