If you live in the United Kingdom, please ask your MP to sign EDM 320: That this House supports the work of CAFOD in exposing the significant reservations about the Hallmark Nickel project in the Philippines run by BHP Billiton, the world’s largest mining...
In a pre-Christmas call, the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines has demanded a moratorium on all mining and logging – until Indigenous Peoples’ rights are truly respected. London-listed Anglo American and BHP Billiton have been among the...
Papua New Guinea landowners who sued Rio Tinto Group over claims of human-rights abuses must show that they are not required to exhaust legal options at home before pursuing the U.S. case, an appeals court said. See...
Two major Philippine organisations have published a detailed summary of the extent of mining in their country, revealing the political and financial forces backing the industry, and the broad nature of resistance to it. “All forms of struggle, from parliamentary...
Faced with massive debt, the world’s oldest multinational mining company now has the opportunity to salvage its damaged reputation. But will it do so? At the beginning of this year Rio Tinto was the world’s second biggest mining company by market...
UK Mining’s “2008 AGM Season” ends this week, as London-listed GCM Resources (formerly Global Coal Management, and previously Asia Energy plc) defends one of the most criticised mining proposals of recent years: the Phulbari coal mining project in...
“We are poor and where shall we stand if they snatch the land away from us? We don’t want the open coal mine even at the cost of our blood.” Srimati Murmu, from the Santal community of Phulbari, 26 November 2007 A complex project in a complex setting GCM’s...
Nostromo Research (London) has published a devastating critique of one of South Asia’s biggest proposed mining projects – London-based GCM Resources plc’s Phulbari Coal mine in Bangladesh. GCM Resources’ Annual General Meeting will take place...
BHP Billiton has called off its bid for rival miner Rio Tinto, blaming falling commodity prices and regulatory demands that it sell off assets. See http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7747418.stm.
Following last month’s BHP Billiton plc AGM in London, and before this week’s BHP Billiton Ltd AGM in Australia, the company has pulled out of one of its most severely criticised projects. Some commentators suggest that this was because of falling nickel...
Although Vedanta’s operations in Orissa – specifically its planned bauxite mining of the Nyamgiri hills – have attracted considerable international criticism, prompting a number of major India and UK NGOs to adopt campaigns, comparatively little has...
The welcome news that Vedanta has been fprced out of the Kolli Hills has been somewhat over-shadowed by a decision, made in August by India’s Expert Appraisal Committee (Industry), but only just announced, that the company may double the capacity of its...
