23-25 March 2009 Legend Villas, Metro Manila, Philippines When all the trees have been cut down, When all the animals have been hunted, When all the waters are polluted, When all the air is unsafe to breathe, Only then will you discover you cannot eat money. –...
US-based mining giant Freeport McMoRan is still paying Indonesian troops to protect a large gold and copper mine in Papua, despite regulations requiring the military to hand over to police. London-based Rio Tinto helped finance the expansion of the Grasberg mine and...
Peruvian prosecutors have accused police of torturing protesters at a mining camp in 2005 but cleared a British-Chinese metals company and its security firm of wrongdoing. Lawyers for Fedepaz, the rights group that filed the complaint along with the National...
Among the major mining investors in the Philippines are London-listed Anglo American and BHP Billiton PRESS RELEASE, March 24, 2009 MANILA, Philippines — Some 85 representatives of Indigenous Peoples from around the world have arrived in the country for the...
A protest was held outside Rio Tinto’s Melbourne offices on 13 March to launch a campaign against multinationals investing in Colombia. Rio Tinto has several exploration projects in Colombia and it plans to start mining next year. See...
On 28 February the “Consulta de los Pueblos” (Peoples’ Referendum) in Usa – Kirrandara hill ended with a categorical “no” to the mining industry. It is the first time that a referendum of this sort has taken place in Colombia. The...
In April, Rio Tinto shareholders meet to deliver judgment on plans by the world’s oldest multinational mining company, to sell a hug amount of stock, and part control of some mining projects, to a Chinese state-owned company. Ramifications of the deal stretch...
Although desperately trying to bail itself out of debt (notwithstanding the pending deal with Chinalco) and having sacked thousands of workers from its Alcan Canada operations, Rio Tinto has just signed two agreements presaging an integrated aluminium project with one...
THE Ranger uranium mine inside the World Heritage-listed Kakadu National Park is leaking 100,000 litres of contaminated water into the ground beneath the park every day, a Government appointed scientist has revealed. See...
One of the world’s leading climate change scientists is unequivocal about indicting coal as”the single greatest threat to civilisation and all life on our planet.” See http://www.minesandcommunities.org/article.php?a=9120
The latest version of the unique “From Money to Metals” database is now available. The document contains information about who is financing mining companies and damaging mining projects around the world. See:...
A leading social and environmental advocate on the Philippine island of Mindanao was gunned down on Monday March 9th, by unidentified motorcycle killers. He is the second anti-mining activist to have been murdered in Mindanao over the past three months. Eliezer...
