“Mining for development”? It’s bonkers, claim NGOs. Australian Aid watchdog AID/WATCH and environmental organisation Friends of the Earth (FoE) held a demonstration at AusAID’s Mining for Development Conference in Sydney, to assert that aid...
The ICMM is a body made up of 22 mining companies. Commentary by Emily Greenspan of Oxfam America: “Last week the International Council of Metals and Mining (ICMM) released a new mining and indigenous peoples position statement requiring its 22 member companies...
It’s almost certainly the worst officially-recorded mining disaster in recent Indonesian history. On Tuesday, 21 May 2013, twenty eight mineworker were confirmed dead as the result of a tunnel collapse at Freeport’s Grasberg operations in Papua during the...
In a new report, “More Shine Than Substance: How RJC certification fails to create responsible jewelry,” an international coalition of labour and environmental groups indicts the Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC)’s certification system as misleading...
Shell, one of the largest multinational corporations in the world and a company that prides itself in having strong stakeholder relations, was taken aback by a barrage of questions from shareholders and groups attending its AGM. Shareholders questioned Shell’s...
Last week, two of the world’s leading scientists travelled to Europe to counter some of the outrageous lobbying coming from the tar sands industry and the Canadian government against EU climate legislation. The trip, by US climate expert Jim Hansen and Canadian...
A complaint has been brought by Rights and Accountability in Development (RAID), a human rights organisation, concerning mining assets controlled by companies associated with Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation (ENRC) in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC),...
ENRC details founders’ $2.3bn cash-and-share bid plan Kazakhstan’s government and the trio of founders behind miner ENRC, seeking to take the company private, have offered shares in rival Kazakhmys as well as cash in an indicative proposal valuing the group at...
Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) is under fierce attack for investing hundreds of millions of pounds in US companies which remove the tops of mountains in order to scoop out coal inside. See...
Ministers discuss returning parts of UK Coal to public ownership in attempt to save retirement savings for 6,000 members. See http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2013/may/12/uk-coal-nationalised-ministers-fire-pensions?
Lonmin’s strike ends but now Amplats (Anglo American Platinum) is in brace position. Workers at Amplats say, We shall not accept one more job loss at Angloplats – We shall resist – We shall fight. See...
Glencore Xstrata Plc appointed former BP Plc Chief Executive Officer Tony Hayward as interim chairman after John Bond was ousted by shareholders of the world’s largest exporter of power-station coal. Bond stepped down at the start of Glencore’s annual general meeting...
