Indian Environment Ministry rejects Vedanta's mining proposal in Niyamgiri
Environment Minister Veerappa Moily has decided not to allow the Vedanta Group to mine the Niyamgiri Hills for bauxite, the raw material that it needs for its Rs 4,500-crore alumina plant at Lanjigarh, ministry officials said. The decision will be conveyed to the...Mining is misery for us, says Colombian indigenous leader
Yazmin Romero: “Defending the earth is an act of peace” “For us mining is misery. They say there is coal there for the world; but they don’t realise this comes at the expense of huge loss of human life.” Yasmin Romero Epiayu. Yasmin Romero Epiayu is an indigenous...BHP Billiton’s London AGM, Thursday 24 October 2013: nearly the full works
By Richard Solly, Co-ordinator, London Mining Network In the days when Don Argus was Chairman of BHP Billiton, the company’s critics could rely on getting a metaphorical kick in the throat from a man not noted for courtesy. Jac Nasser is as smooth as silk but his...An unchanging climate at BHP Billiton
Report on the BHP Billiton AGM, LMN’s visitors from Colombia and Indonesia, and the attempt by Ian Dunlop, climate change campaigner, to get elected to the company’s Board.