Hinkley Point Power Station, Somerset, England The climate change crisis is upon us. The world’s leading climate scientists agree that time is rapidly running out and that urgent steps are needed in the next 10 years to dramatically reduce our carbon emissions....
Once again the Philippines has become the focus of news services as they record the appalling human costs of another ‘natural’ disaster (in this case typhoon Haiyan / Yolanda). These often make reference to the damage done to mining or refining...
… as Vedanta seeks to replace workers with machines and sue the authorities over its taxes. Meanwhile, a District Commissioner has fallen ill allegedly as a result of toxic sulphur-dioxide emissions from Glencore’s Mopani Copper Mines plant in Kankoyo. See...
On 10 November 2013 an international anti-mining protest was held outside the UK Houses of Parliament in solidarity with all communities affected by mining worldwide. The protest was organised by the Save Rosia Montana UK support group with the participation and...
A coalition of NGOs is mounting a legal challenge to the world’s first license to operate a deep sea mine in Papua New Guinea. The license was granted under the former Somare government to the Canadian company Nautilus for its Solwara 1 mine. London-listed Anglo...
The land swap bill implies that more than 5,000 acres of high-value Arizona conservation lands – including endangered species, sensitive ecosystems, recreational sites and historic landmarks – will be protected. Rio Tinto and BHP’s plans to build North America’s...
Should Australia treble its aid to Bougainville to prevent violence? To do so would likely create further distrust. It was Australia that fuelled the violence in the first place, writes Kristian Lasslett. The Bougainville war was sparked when landowners shut the Rio...
The London Metal Exchange (LME) is a defendant in the lawsuits accusing Goldman, JPMorgan and Glencore Xstrata of rigging the aluminium market and violating anti-trust laws. In the mid-1990s the LME was embroiled in a criminal investigation after the discovery that a...
As ministers gather in Warsaw this week for the UN’s latest round of intergovernmental negotiations on climate change, and the Philippines reels from the strongest storm ever recorded, officials at BHP Billiton, the world’s largest mining company, is...
BHP Billiton has a massive coal mine planned for Central Kalimantan. But local environmental activists are worried about its impact on people and forests. See http://www.abc.net.au/environment/articles/2013/11/19/3893451.htm.
Street felt-artist Lucy Sparrow yesterday unrolled an ambitious artwork at the annual Canada Europe Energy Summit outside Canada House in Trafalgar Square, as Canadian minister Joe Oliver met with the UK government, the CEO of BP, Bob Dudley, and other major players...
Scottish authorities approved Tuesday the development of a vast open pit coal mine in Edinburgh, which would see 10 million tonnes of coal extracted over 10 years, after a report said the project was in the national interest. See...
