New mining projects are being re-branded clean, green and vital to climate action across Europe. The reality is very different.
… The greenwashing of metal mining Hannibal Rhoades Lynda Sullivan mirko nikolic | 24th September 2021 | News Mining Climate Change Editor’s Picks 40_bjornevatn_-_svein_lund.jpg New mining projects are being re-branded clean, …
Experts at a special hearing warned the EU that its green rhetoric about its mining boom is dangerous and misleading.
… Europe is no ‘green mining’ haven Hannibal Rhoades | 10th December 2021 | Comment Mining Extractivism Post-extractivism Europe … the EU that its green rhetoric about its mining boom is dangerous and misleading. At …
'Green mining' is an oxymoron that is gaining traction in the EU and pushes a risky narrative about an environmentally destructive sector.
… Unearthing the buried truth about green mining Diego Francesco Marin | 9th June 2021 | News Mining Environmental Justice Portugal EU … Editor’s Picks coal-mine.png 'Green mining' is an oxymoron that is gaining …
New rules come into force today that require big UK companies to make their carbon emissions public but - explains Miriam Ross - this won't put an end to the environmental degradation and breach of human rights caused by the UK-financed coal mining boom in Kalimantan, Borneo.......
… UK-financed coal mining is devastating Indonesian Borneo Miriam Ross | 1st October 2013 Activism Mining Money east kutai mining.jpg Mining in East Kutai, Kalimantan. …
Young activists have added their voices to the call to stop a controversial new coking coal mine in Cumbria.
… mine Anne Harris | 26th February 2021 | News Mining Youth Activism Activism Editor’s Picks … coal”. Scientist The company, West Cumbria Mining, wants to extract nearly three million … County Council has accepted West Cumbria Mining's assertion that starting a new coal …
We need a holistic, material transition towards a circular society.
… Rhoades Andy Whitmore | 25th May 2021 | News Mining Climate Change Renewables Extractivism Post-extractivism Degrowth Mining cobalt and copper ore We need a … the Washington DC, Beijing and Brussels. And mining corporations, ever-alert for a …
The villagers of Andrakaraka, southern Madagascar, are protesting against the Rio Tinto QMM ilmenite mine.
… Orengo | 24th November 2021 | News Rio Tinto Mining Fishers The villagers of Andrakaraka, … in order to manage water levels around its mining operation. Villagers claim that since … The local environmental regulator and the mining company knew the impact of the weir …
The birthplace of Aristotle is being laid waste by a vast mining project, opening a rift in a cash-strapped society
… gold Jim Wickens | 25th July 2013 News Gold Mining Ecologist Film Unit News Politics And … of Aristotle is being laid waste by a vast mining project, opening a rift in a … Greece is only the preliminary part of a gold mining project green-lighted by the country's …
A vigil for Mama Ntshangase in South Africa reminds us of the impact on communities and the environment from national coal policies.
… tell us, dared to oppose plans by coal mining company Petmin to expand operations in … Crisis Community, the Pink Panthers, and from mining-affected communities around Gauteng. … crucial work as environmental defenders. Mining Mama Ntshangase was not the first to …
Green Economics Institute (GEI) and Green European Foundation one-day conference asks, 'mining for metals, can it be fair?'
… Mindful mining? Natalie Bennett | 19th May 2021 | Comment Mining Langer Heinrich uranium mine, Namibia … European Foundation one-day conference asks, 'mining for metals, can it be fair?' Green …
Romania's parliament has voted down changes to mining laws that would have allowed Europe's biggest open cast pit gold mine to go ahead at Rosia Montana in the Carpathian mountains.
… Ecologist | 12th December 2013 News Romania Mining Gold Romania's parliament has voted down changes to mining laws that would have allowed Europe's … has rejected revisions to the country's mining laws designed to enable the Canadian …
Campaigners are infuriated that a deep coal mine in Cumbria has been permitted, and are fighting back.
… Catherine Early | 15th January 2021 | News Mining Steelmaking Cumbria Editor’s Picks … UK for 30 years. The developer, West Cumbria Mining, has been planning it since 2014 to … such as one in Sweden, where steelmaker SSAB, mining and processing company LKAB and …
Mining that destroys communities and the ecosystem can have no part in any Green New Deal.
… Mining and green new deals Sebastian Ordoñez Muñoz | 4th August 2021 | Comment Mining Just Transition Green New Deal Perspectives On A Global Green New Deal Mining cobalt and copper ore Mining that …
The push to extract raw materials for an urgent ‘clean energy’ transition is impacting on vulnerable frontlines in resource-rich areas.
… Can 'green mining’ boom save our planet? Claire Burgess … Liz Downes | 9th September 2021 | Comment Mining Climate Change Militarism Greenwashing … protesting against an Australian-owned mining subsidiary company eager to start works …
The fate of some of Ecuador's last remaining cloud forests and hundreds of livelihoods rests on the outcome of a trailblazing Rights of Nature case concerning two tiny amphibians.
… Zorrilla | 11th January 2021 | News Intag Mining Copper Rights Of Nature Ecuador … constitutional court case that could stop mining development in most of Ecuador. The … until it was rediscovered in the LLurimagua mining concession in 2016 . The much rarer …
The UK’s new Energy Bill, to be scrutinised by a House of Lords committee next week, will do little to change the UK’s economy’s addiction to fossil fuels. London resident Miriam Ross reflects on living in the coal capital of the world....
… the effects of pollution from the mine. ‘The mining companies have submitted our people to … by the contamination caused by coal mining. The constant exposure to coal dust is … to do with London? Cerrejón is owned by three mining giants, Anglo-American, BHP Billiton …
Brazilian activists continue to campaign for justice two years on from the Brumadinho mining disaster in Brazil.
… Saul Jones | 28th January 2021 | Comment Mining Brumadinho Tailings Dam Mine Waste … for justice two years on from the Brumadinho mining disaster in Brazil. For two years now, … loved ones and seeing only mud. Brazilian mining giant Vale has constructed mining …
Protesters against a titanium mine in South Africa were brutally attacked. Six years later and justice has not been done.
… Hali Healy | 13th September 2021 | News Mining South Africa Environmental Defenders … in a community that is resisting a titanium mining project. The verdict, at the Mbizana … on the Wild Coast against open-cast mining. This article was first published at …
The development of coal mines in East Kalimantan is having a huge impact on local and indigenous populations, destroying the forest and displacing communities. London banks and City financiers take the profit.
… say Indonesian and British campaigners, coal mining is poised to rip through central … a few hundred miles west of Samarinda. Mining companies such as BHP Billiton are … its partner in Indonesia, the East Kalimantan Mining Advocacy Network, mining and the …
Communities in southern Madagascar impacted by water pollution are still waiting for basic public health information from mining giant Rio Tinto.
… Yvonne Orengo | 18th February 2021 | Comment Mining Indigenous Peoples Rio Tinto Editor’s … for basic public health information from mining giant Rio Tinto. Mining giant Rio Tinto’s destruction of the …
Ireland has been identified as a hotspot in the European mining boom. Women across the country are fighting back.
… | News Ecologist Writers' Fund Feminism Gold Mining Activism Community Action Editor’s … been identified as a hotspot in the European mining boom. Women across the country are … policies actively invite the interest of the mining industry. Ireland, North and South, has …
India’s Dongria Kondh tribe have rejected plans by mining giant Vedanta Resources for an open-pit bauxite mine in their sacred Niyamgiri Hills. Although the decision is not yet final, the case has been hailed as an unprecedented triumph for tribal rights ...
… Dongria Kondh tribe of India resist powerful mining company Joanna Eede | 20th November … 2013 Activism Indigenous Peoples Protest Mining India d7.jpg Where will us children go? … Dongria Kondh tribe have rejected plans by mining giant Vedanta Resources for an open-pit …