Yet another mining agreement has been approved by the Philippine government for a project intensely opposed by local people. Less than a week was granted for the project’s public assessment. As with an earlier such agreement, handed down to Xstrata plc for its...
After clinching Asarco’s buyout deal at US$ 1.7 billion, billionaire Anil Agarwal-led Vedanta Resources is looking at more acquisitions in mining in view of lower valuations of these assets due to the current slowdown. Mr Agarwal’s rhetoric rises to...
Survival’s new short film, ‘Mine’, tells the story of the remote Dongria Kondh tribe’s struggle to protect the mountain they worship as a God. London-based mining company Vedanta Resources plans a vast open-cast bauxite mine in India’s Niyamgiri hills, and the Dongria...
The Bangladeshi Government’s energy division has ‘lost’ the report of a government-formed expert committee which found that the agreement between the government and London-based Asia Energy (now GCM Resources) for the Phulbari coal field was illegal and an open...
It’s been called the worst of all mining companies on the planet – and recent allegations of fraud help confirm the judgment. But this hasn’t stopped Vedanta Resources boasting it will soon become a global leader. See...
BHP Billiton has failed to satisfy CAFOD, which is pressuring the company over its operations in the Philippines. See http://www.cafod.org.uk/news/bhp-answers-2009-02-26
The London Stock Exchange’s Alternative Investment Market (AIM), set up in 1995, has provided a highly significant boost to London’s emerging role as the global centre for mining-related finance. Companies listed on AIM have contributed measurably to the...
Accusations are often made that mining companies, both big and small, offer inducements to governments and civil society organisations in order to gain accreditation as socially or environmentally responsible. Such claims are usually difficult – if not...
Despite the promulgation of an “environmental law” in 1994, over the following three years no new mining projects were rejected by the Chilean government. Last month, a group of small farmers and Indigenous communities from the country’s Atacama...
UK Parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights holds mini-conference on business & human rights, prior to inquiry Read the presentations by the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre and the Corporate Responsibility (CORE) Coalition at...
The UK’s Co-operative Financial Services helps fund legal action by aboriginal community against development of Canada’s oil sands by companies such as Shell & BP See http://www.business-humanrights.org/Links/Repository/391971 Lawsuit in Canadian court...
Britain’s metallic e-wastes may end up poisoning children in Ghana, Nigeria, and other African countries, according to a British media investigation. See http://www.minesandcommunities.org/article.php?a=9095
