Social Justice and Environmental Campaigners demonstrated at the High Court of Justice, London, on 5 June. Desperate coal company UK Coal sought to over-rule the community, Durham Council and the Secretary of State’s Inspectors to be allowed to mine over half a...
This week more than 5000 Dongria Kondh tribals and other farmers and local people from grassroots group Niyamgiri Suraksha Samiti conducted a six day foot march (Padayatra) to visit 104 villages on and around the Niyamgiri mountains. The marchers stopped in the...
This open letter signed by a number of UK MPs and other public figures expresses concern about the track record of Vedanta and asks UK parliamentarians and ombudsmen to monitor the upcoming decision making on Niyamgiri, and ensure it is fair and adheres to UK and...
On 24 May, the East Ayrshire Council Cabinet met to discuss an initial report into the state of the opencast coal mining industry. The report, published on 23 May by the Council, highlights publicly for the first time the scale of failings on the part of Scottish Coal...
It’s not been an easy year so far for Glencore, the world’s largest commodities trader. A confidential U.N. Panel of Experts is said to confirm that the company supplied thousands of tons of alumina to Iranian, which may have aided the country’s...
CATAPA’s protest at Deutsche Bank’s AGM – see report below Hundreds of protesters were locked in a standoff with police in northern Peru on Wednesday as they vowed to stop Newmont Mining from transferring water from a lake to a reservoir as part of...
Rio Tinto (along with Brazilian multinational Vale) is accused by Human Rights Watch of badly unsettling communities in Mozambique. See http://www.minesandcommunities.org/article.php?a=12310.
As Rio Tinto sacks a hundred workers at its ill-fated Utah copper mine, so two unions – formerly at loggerheads for years – unite to take on the world’s second largest iron ore miner. See http://www.minesandcommunities.org/article.php?a=12318.
Mining giant Rio Tinto has cut nearly 100 jobs at its Kennecott Utah copper mine and warned further positions will be slashed later this month to lower operating costs after a pit-wall collapse inside Bingham Canyon in April. See...
BHP’s decision to use a 100% fly-in fly-out (FIFO) workforce at its Australian Bowen Basin coal mines, instead of hiring from the local community, is generating fierce opposition in Central Queensland. According to the CFMEU, Australia’s main trade union including...
Protest against Pascua Lama. Source: Miningwatch Canada The world’s biggest gold mining corporation, Barrick Gold, has been served a US$16.4 fine and told to halt operations at its Pascua Lama project until it takes measures to prevent water contamination. While...
“Outrageously the Government has appointed…Newmont’s former public relations green washing expert, as the National Manager of Minerals…in charge of issuing mining permits throughout the country. ” So comments the Coromandel Watchdog,...
