Banking while Borneo burns: top five banks fuelling climate change

Behind the shiny façade of the financial sector lies a dirty secret. UK banks and investors are pumping billions of pounds into high carbon fossil fuel projects around the world – devastating the lives of communities and destroying the natural environment. The World...

An unchanging climate at BHP Billiton

Report on the BHP Billiton AGM, LMN’s visitors from Colombia and Indonesia, and the attempt by Ian Dunlop, climate change campaigner, to get elected to the company’s Board.

PNG Government strikes deal with Ok Tedi landowners

Ok Tedi mining lease area principle landowners have accepted key offers by Prime Minister Peter O’Neill to end the current standoff over the mine issue. Representatives of the 10 villages situated around the Ok Tedi mining lease area – Mineral Resources Star Mountains...

Longer term forecasts for coal positive … or not

The claim by energy consultancy firm Wood Mackenzie, noting that coal is set to overtake oil as the world’s main source of energy by 2020 has set off a debate. They do have form for this sort of thing (as they also claimed that China would double its coal...

Rio Tinto's Guinea rail line will displace 10,000 people

Rio Tinto’s $US20 billion ($20.8bn) Simandou iron ore project in Guinea will see more than 10,000 people relocated to make way for a railway to move the raw material to the coast, raising potential issues over who will be responsible for their wellbeing. The...