New coal power stations are planned to be built around Europe, but there is also growing resistance in many countries including Germany, Poland and Czech Republic. See http://www.airclim.org/acidnews/anti-coal-movement-europe-growing.
UBS analysts in 2013 reported that utilities in Europe need to shut down 30% of their gas, coal, and oil-fed power capacity by 2017 — not necessarily to fight global warming, cut pollution, or cut fuel imports, but because the renewable energy revolution is pushing...
Environmentalists have welcomed the ruling by the Court of Session in Scotland last month, overturning an earlier decision to allow liquidators for Scottish Coal to abandon their environmental obligations at former opencast mines. The ruling says the liquidators do...
Twenty Santas delivered a tonne of coal on a dumper truck to ‘the world’s naughty bank’ HSBC at Moorgate in the City of London this morning to highlight the bank’s massive financing of fossil fuels and to call on it to pull out of coal, the fuel most damaging to the...
A police officer takes aim at an indigenous woman protesting GX’s Tintaya mine in Espinar, Peru, May 2012. Photo: Miguel Gutierrez Stephanie Boyd on why she thinks the mega-miner should win Public Eye’s competition. See...
India’s biggest mining magnate has now adopted the mantle of an agonised aunt. Mr Anil Agarwal is bemoaning the fact that, having been denied the opportunity to grab bauxite from Orissa’s Nyamgiri Hills earlier this year, Vedanta’s alumininum...
Vedanta’s sister company Sesa Goa has openly flouted the 10 sq km limit area for mining set under the Mines and Minerals Regulation development (MMRD) Act. Despite having permission to export only 76 lakh (7,600,000) tonnes of iron ore in Goa, it exported ore worth...
A tank containing up to a million litres of uranium ore and acid spilled contaminated slurry. Photo: Gundjeihmi Aboriginal Corp. In Australia, the Greens are calling for a permanent end to operations at the Ranger uranium mine in the Northern Territory after a...
A day after exit polls foretold BJP victory in Madhya Pradesh, the party’s national vice-president Uma Bharati declared it was time to “speak to chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan about illegal mining of diamonds by British mining major Rio Tinto”...
The Panguna mine Foreign treasure hunters have descended on the battle-scarred and economically bereft Pacific island of Bougainville, as jockeying for its natural riches intensifies. Hot on their trail: The Royal Canadian Mounted Police. The serving Bougainville...
The plant would have been Rio Tinto’s largest worldwide, with the capacity to produce 674,000 tons a year. It had been scheduled to start operating in 2016. See http://www.mineweb.com/mineweb/content/en/mineweb-fast-news?oid=221308&sn=Detail.
