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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
The Fukushima disaster was fuelled by Australian uranium but lessons were not learned and the industry continues to fuel global nuclear insecurity with irresponsible uranium export policies.
… Noonan | 9th March 2021 | Comment Uranium Mining Nuclear Power Energy Editor’s Picks … regulators and TEPCO", the commission found. Mining But overseas suppliers who turned a … was used in the Fukushima reactors. The mining companies won't acknowledge that fact — …
Robert Jenrick, communities secretary, to “call in” controversial application for new coal mine on the Cumbrian coast.
… U-turn' Gavin Cordon | 12th March 2021 | News Mining Activism Friends Of The Earth Editor’s … and opponents of the proposal by West Cumbria Mining (WCM) to open the deep mine near …
India is unable to shake off its ties to coal despite its commitment to renewable energy, giving rise to enormous social and environmental costs.
… by 2023-24 . Already, auctions for coal mining concessions to private companies have … decision for commercial auctions for the coal mining of 41 blocks earlier this year. During … the land appropriation for the sake of mining. Since 2004, the Committee for the …
Are Rights of Nature the answer to our ecological crises?
… decisions are upheld, this will put a stop to mining in the forest and safeguard hundreds of … However, while there is the potential for mining in the Andean cloud forest to be … was threatened by the Llurimagua copper mining project. This followed a decision of …
Nuclear energy is no solution to climate breakdown say 300 organisations internationally ahead of COP26.
… burden and risk from the nuclear industry as mining and waste storage primarily affects … of new technology. The legacy of contaminated mining zones, nuclear weapons fallout and the … Unsustainable Nuclear power relies on uranium mining. Like coal mining this causes adverse …
Building workers’ movements for a just transition and against false solutions to the climate crisis.
… has invested heavily in false solutions is mining. Automation, IT and labour … The biggest investment ever committed by the mining industry to fight climate change.” It’s … Retaining the same agricultural and mining systems, but without workers, is being …