Bradley Public Inquiry: Air Quality and the Billion Pound Plus Health Question
Press release from the Loose Anti Opencast Network (LAON) LAON PR 8-2014, 2/10/14 BRADLEY PUBLIC INQUIRY: AIR QUALITY AND THE BILLION POUND PLUS HEALTH QUESTION. The coal to be quarried from the Bradley site, if the appeal at the forthcoming Public Inquiry beginning... Bradley Public Inquiry: the twenty six year question
Press release from Loose Anti-Opencast Network (LAON PR 6-2014) BRADLEY PUBLIC INQUIRY: THE TWENTY SIX YEAR QUESTION In their evidence to the Public Inquiry, UK Coal state that it will take three years and six months to complete the task of preparing the site,...
The Iron Stone – Pedra de Ferro (part 4)
Boats waiting to load iron ore at Port Hedland, Australia. Source: The Ocean Foundation Ports in a Storm How does Brazil’s plan for the Porto Sul iron ore export port compare with similar projects around the world? The following case studies draw on recent...
New EU Environment Commissioner grilled by MEPs
Yesterday, MEPs cross-questioned new EU Environment Commissioner Karmenu Vella. Rozana Pencea of Miningwatch Romania has sent this report. Miningwatch Romania is part of the Bang! Ban Cyanide Coalition. During the hearings, the Hungarian MEP Gyorgy Holvenyi asked Mr.... UK Coal secures its loan – but the future is anything but secure
Press release from Loose Anti-Opencast Network (LAON), 29 September 2014 UK COAL SECURES ITS LOAN – BUT THE FUTURE OF ITS SURFACE MINES IS ANYTHING BUT SECURE. The fact that UK Coal has now secured its £20m pound loan, in order to allow for the managed rundown...
Pedra de Ferro – The Iron Stone (part 3)
Railway wagons being loaded with ore from BAMIN in May 2014 (Click here for Chapter One and here for Chapter Two.) Pedra de Ferro – The Iron Stone Chapter Three BAMIN is looking for customers in a hopelessly over-supplied world Nostromo Research 21 September...
The thirst of coal: structural causes of drought in La Guajira, Colombia
(Original Spanish version here) It is altogether rather easy and convenient for the Colombian government, and institutions like the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development, to attribute the drought being experienced in much of the country to El Niño and...
Can ENRC save BAMIN?
Pedra de Ferro – The Iron Stone Chapter Two: Can ENRC save BAMIN? (for the first chapter, click here) After being forced to quit the London Stock Exchange in December 2013 – six months after the UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO) commenced an investigation into...
Pedra de Ferro – The Iron Stone
Porto Sul from above. Photo: Fabio Copolla Brazilian citizens are now faced with a scheme, called Pedra de Ferro (literally “the iron stone”), to extract millions of tonnes of ire ore from a mine in the northern state of Bahia and send it by road, then rail, to an...
Manifesto in solidarity with African descent communities in Brazil threatened by mining
MANIFESTO IN SOLIDARITY WITH QUILOMBOLAS FROM ORIXIMINÁ THREATENED BY MINING The undersigned organisations come to publicly express their solidarity with the quilombolas from Oriximiná, Pará State, threatened by mining exploration on their traditional territories, and...