Last month there was an upsurge in opposition to Eldorado Gold’s Halkidiki gold project in Greece’s Aristoteli county – and excessive force allegedly used by police against protestors. Last week, the violence escalated, on both sides. Defending the...
Barrick is a Canadian company in which there is major British investment (see http://moneytometal.org/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&search=Barrick&go=Go). Chilean Court halts Pascua Lama mine A Chilean court has ordered Barrick, the world’s biggest...
Glencore clinches Xstrata take-over with Chinese copper deal Glencore, the world’s largest minerals trader, is to sell the Las Bambas copper mine in Peru, thus satisifying conditions imposed by the Chinese government, and removing the fnial obstacle to its...
At Rio Tinto’s 2013 AGM, held in London last week, chairman Jan du Plessis did what none of his predecessors could achieve. Long gone are Rio’s dark knights – notably former Rio Tinto chairmen, Alistair Frame and Robert Wilson – who took such...
IndustriALL Global Union joined a diverse group of civil society activists, NGOs and community-based organizations in London to protest against Anglo American and Rio Tinto on the occasion of their Annual General Meetings on 18 and 19 April 2013 respectively. See...
The tiny Hunter Valley town has won a three-year battle against mining giant Rio Tinto, after a court ruling overturned a state-government endorsed decision to dig an open-cut coal mine next to the town. A Rio Tinto subsidiary, Coal & Allied, had been granted...
Rio Tinto recently wrote off some US$3 billion when the administration rejected its proposal to transport coal from its Riversdale mine along a major river. The UK company has also been confronted by vociferous opposition to its “resettlement” plans. See...
In one of the longest-running – and certainly the most widely-publicised – of Indian struggles to halt a threatened mining venture, the community seems to have won. On Thursday, 18 April 2013, the country’s Supreme Court (SC) ruled that the future...
India’s Supreme Court has fined Vedanta’s Sterlite subsidiary US$18.4 million for polluting water, soil, and air around its Tuticorin copper smelter in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, on 23 March 2013. However, as might have been foreseen, the Court...
The EU has agreed ground-breaking new rules forcing oil, gas, mining and logging companies to publish details of the payments they make to governments for access to natural resources around the world. By providing millions of citizens in resource-rich countries with...
Top UN climate change official Christiana Figueres said that it is ‘no longer necessary’ for the World Bank to rely on coal in its energy projects, saying that the organization should now focus on bringing alternative energy sources forward. Figureres commended World...
One third of RBS energy lending still goes to climate-trashing projects. The report looks solely at project funding, which excludes loans to companies involved in tar sands, or corporations who get coal by blasting the tops off of mountains; decimating landscapes and...
