Finding hope in protests
…human rights problems. Uranium mining for nuclear energy is a false solution too. We need to find socially just ways to reduce use of both energy and materials. Gabriel Boric,…
Can the mining industry save the planet? Probably not.
…power is no fix for climate change Nuclear Power and Climate Change: Can Small Modular Reactors Deliver? 80 minute recording of panel discussion held Oct. 6, 2021 on nuclear energy…
Rio Tinto Alternative Timeline
…nuclear weapons in occupied Namibia 1985 – Buying into a water-depleting mine in Chile 1987 – Rio Tinto evicts and pollutes in East Kalimantan 1989 – Abandoning the Panguna mine…
1976 – Mining for nuclear weapons in occupied Namibia
Uranium production starts at Rio Tinto’s Rössing mine in Namibia. Throughout the 1970s, Rio Tinto produces a quarter of global uranium. Having signed two contracts with the UK Atomic Energy…
End coal, end extractivism, end expansion of the mining frontier!
…energy minerals‘ examines the potential widespread environmental destruction and human rights abuses unleashed by the extraction of transition minerals – the raw materials needed for the production of renewable energy…