The Loose Anti Opencast Network (LAON ) Press Release 15 July 2013 On Thursday, the Scottish Court of Sessions, drove a horse and cart through the carefully constructed array of planning policies developed over a long period of time to protect the Scottish people from...
By Rob Davies – Daily Mail, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/markets/article-2363475/Fresh-controversy-engulfs-scandal-hit-ENRC-Brazil-port-plans.html#ixzz2Z5zxkRdK 14 July 2013 ENRC is risking fresh controversy over plans to build a huge port in one of Brazil’s...
Loose Anti-Opencast Network (LAON) press release 10 July 2013 News that 2,000 jobs have been saved and that pensions have been protected by the rescue operation mounted around the collapse of UK Coal Mining and UK Coal Operations, has so far been praised on all sides...
OT Watch / CEE Bankwatch Network / London Mining Network / urgewald press release 4 July 2013 Ulaanbaatar – A group of Mongolian herders submitted today an official complaint to the Project Complaints Mechanism of the European Bank for Reconstruction and...
Saami Council Press Release, 4 July 2013 Today the Saami communites of Sirges and Jåhkågasska attend Beowulf Plc AGM in London in order to reiterate that they do not accept the company’s exploration and mining activities in Gállok (Kallak), in Jokkmokk, Sweden; an...
On 3 July, the UK Parliament’s Select Committee on Business Innovation and Skills, which monitors the work of the Department for Business Innovation and Skills, officially announced the inquiry into the extractives sector which had been trailed by Committee...
Our website has been under repeated attack for nearly two weeks. Our web support have reinforced the site’s security, but one result of the attacks has been that the site has been ‘blacklisted’ by Google. This means that if visit our site, you are...
Protest against GCM’s Phulbari project The London-based GCM Resources Plc (formerly Asia Energy) has announced the formation of a new board of directors headed by Polo Resources Limited Managing Director Michael Tang. The change in the board of directors has...
The Indian Government has told the Odisha government that it cannot take short cuts on the Supreme Court’s order to hold village meetings on Vedanta Aluminium’s proposed bauxite mining in the Niyamgiri hills. The state government had told the tribal...
Vedanta subsidiary Sterlite Copper’s smelter unit in Tuticorin has resumed operations after the National Green Tribunal’s (NGT) expert panel gave a green signal. The panel members conducted its second phase of inspection recently and checked if the...
The people of Cajamarca, Peru are fighting off what would be the second largest gold mining project in South America – Minas Conga. The project is majority owned by the giant American Newmont Mining Corporation, and 5% owned by the World Bank’s International Finance...
Copper producer Antamina has been fined for a toxic spill that left hundreds needing medical treatment. Critics have condemned the US$77,000 penalty as extremely low by international standards. Antamina is the world’s third largest copper producer, owned by...
