On Friday 21 June 2013 the UK Government announced that new opencast coal sites would normally not fall under the provisions of the Growth and Infrastructure Act. As a consequence, Loose Anti Opencast Network (LAON) issued the following Press Release: THE PLANNING...
UK’s nuclear clean-up programme to cost billions more than expected Nuclear Decommissioning Authority declines to predict final lifetime clean-up cost amid fears total bill could exceed £100bn See...
Press release: Down to Earth, London Mining Network and the Indonesian Mining Advocacy Network (JATAM). London, 26 June 2013 Much of the talk at today’s Bumi plc AGM will centre on the company’s deep financial and governance woes, but it is the people most directly...
The “El Mauro” tailings-dam is the biggest in Latin America, and third biggest in the world. It holds 2060 million tons of water and mining waste, and is over double the height of the London Eye. Severe risk of the dam collapsing in an earthquake, water...
Phulbari’s fertile farmlands are Bangladesh’s rice bowl. (Photo courtesy of JACSES) British company GCM Resources was dealt a serious blow today as the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) agreed to consider complaints regarding...
Badapada: displaced women and children imprisoned for a month by Vedanta and police This report, directly from a Foil Vedanta team on the ground in Niyamgiri, tells a shocking story of the month long imprisonment of a group of Dalit women and children displaced by...
The independent U.K.-based shareholders’ advisory body PIRC said late Tuesday it is unable to support the approval of Indonesian coal miner Bumi PLC’s annual report and accounts at next week’s annual shareholders meeting. The firm, which represents a...
New research says mining emissions are a cause of lead poisoning in children in Mount Isa in north-west Queensland, Australia. The research, published on 17 June in the peer-reviewed journal Environmental Pollution, has found lead levels in dust from Xstrata’s...
Glencore Xstrata has signed a new $17.3 billion revolving credit facility, to replace the pre-merger credit of Glencore and Xstrata and provide working capital. The facilities were initially launched at $12 billion and were substantially oversubscribed, the...
London-listed Standard Chartered is among banks helping to finance at least eight destructive ‘dodgy deals’ around the world. The projects, which campaigners are fighting to reverse, include the extraction of Canada’s vast tar sands, risky oil drilling in the Arctic...
For an industry that routinely makes multi-billion dollar deals with developing-world governments and an array of sometimes controversial leaders, the mining sector has been remarkably free of political scrutiny. No longer. World leaders gathering in Northern Ireland...
Thousands of opponents of a $5 billion gold project of Newmont Mining circled a lake high in the Andes on Monday, vowing to stop the company from eventually draining it to make way for Peru’s most expensive mine. Lake Perol is one of several lakes that would...
