Mining was imposed on the Salvadoran people as a dream industry to aid development, create jobs and yield taxes to pay for schools and hospitals, write Ricardo Navarro & Sam Cossar-Gilber. But the reality was a nightmare of polluted water, stolen farmland, corporate violence, and murder. After a long campaign, El Salvador has just become the first country to ban all metal mining.
… Making history: El Salvador bans metal mining Ricardo Navarro Sam Cossar-Gilber | 11th April 2017 Comment Mining Campaigning Trade Water Politics El Salvador credit upsidedownworld-cut.jpg Mining was imposed on the Salvadoran people as …
Venezuela is set to hand over 12% of the nation's territory in the upper reaches of the Amazon rainforest to mining corporations, writes Lucio Marcello, with 150 companies from 35 countries poised to devastate the army-controlled 'special economic zone'. But resistance is growing, and a counter-proposal aims to protect the area's precious biodiversity, indigenous cultures and water resources in a new South Orinoco Mega Reserve.
… Amazon: mega-nature reserve? Or mega-mining frontier? Lucio Marcello | 30th March 2017 News Venezuela Mining Ecocide Indigenous Peoples Forests … the upper reaches of the Amazon rainforest to mining corporations, writes Lucio Marcello, …
A tangle of undercapitalised companies are coming forward to cash in on old deep coal mines in Wales, writes Guy Shrubsole - by digging them all out from above from huge open cast pits. But local communities, alarmed at the noise, pollution and destruction of landscape, increasingly see coal as an industry that's best consigned to the scrapheap.
… 2016 Activism Energy Coal Fossil Fuels Mining Corporations UK Wales Politics Climate … south Wales owes much to its history of coal mining. But, those campaigning against the … tonne of coal, when to turn a profit opencast mining really needs a price more like …
Legislation put forward by Brazil's re-elected President Dilma Rousseff would open up to 10% of protected areas to mining, writes Luke Parry. The effect would be to gut nature conservation in Brazil, already in a perilous state due to underfunding and growing pressure for the development of mines, dams, farms and plantations.
… of national parks and indigenous lands face mining threat Luke Parry | 7th November 2014 News Mining Brazil Law Politics Forests Indigenous … would open up to 10% of protected areas to mining, writes Luke Parry. The effect would be …
Campaigners are celebrating after defeating plans to build America’s largest open pit coal mine, writes Nick Engelfriend. In an epic 'David and Goliath' battle, Montana activists challenged the project, and all the politicians and businessmen that supported it, with fierce opposition, protests and demonstrations. The outcome spells hope for all in the fight against dirty energy.
… that formed in 1972 to oppose the mining. By the end of the decade only one … Now all Arch needed to break ground was a mining permit from the state, and a permit to … would still move forward, but an updated mining application Arch intended to file with …
Ecuador's 'socialist' President Correa has unleashed a wave of repression at Andean communities seeking to protect their lands, forests and nature from open pit mining, writes Carlos Zorrilla. With most of biodiversity-rich Intag region conceded to international mining companies, the mood is one of rising fear and desperation in the countdown to next month's election.
… Ecuador's 'progressive' extractivism - mining, ecocide and the silencing of dissent … Carlos Zorrilla | 6th March 2017 News Ecuador Mining Politics Forests Indigenous Peoples … their lands, forests and nature from open pit mining, writes Carlos Zorrilla. With most of …
Last October Greenland repealed a law that banned uranium mining. Now mysterious Australian mining companies are staking out the country for exploitation. But as Antony Loewenstein reports, local fears are growing, and political opposition is heating up.
… Australian uranium mining in Greenland is tearing the country in … Loewenstein | 16th May 2014 News Greenland Mining Nuclear Power Corporations Politics … Greenland repealed a law that banned uranium mining. Now mysterious Australian mining …
Left-wing, progressive politicians hold sway across Latin America, writes Benjamin Dangl. But defying their own 'green' rhetoric, they are committed to mining and other environmentally damaging development. Now they face growing resistance from small farmers and indigenous peoples.
… Peru Argentina Uruguay Brazil Ecuador Bolivia Mining Indigenous Peoples Politics Religion … own 'green' rhetoric, they are committed to mining and other environmentally damaging … forward with extractive industries - in mining, oil and gas operations - without …
Ecuador is facing an unprecedented confrontation between a 'progressive' left-leaning government and a national coalition of indigenous peoples determined to stop vast oil and mining projects taking place on their community land and villages.
… 'national mobilization' against oil and mining David Dene | 24th May 2014 News Mining Ecuador Oil Indigenous Peoples … peoples determined to stop vast oil and mining projects taking place on their …
As governments in economic difficulties increasingly turn to environmentally damaging extraction industries for quick cash, citizens of those countries are responding with increasingly louder cries of protest. Lorna Howarth reports...........
… 2013 News Protest Politics Economics Mining goldmine.jpg Entrance to a gold mine … Rosia Montana, Romania. Protestors believe mining for gold should remain firmly in the … tar sands of Alberta – another Canadian mining corporation, Gabriel Resources Ltd., is …
The UK Government is planning a coal-free energy future by 2025, writes Deniz Kemal. But it has failed to take the first step to make it happen: give clear guidance to local planners to block new coal mines on climate change grounds - like one application going to public inquiry this summer for a huge opencast mine on the Northumberland coast.
… March 2017 Comment Energy Coal UK Politics Mining druridge-bay-cut.jpg The UK Government … is not given permission to go ahead. Banks Mining's backward logic Banks Mining group, the project's owner, argues that …
Rupert Wolfe Murray writes to Prince Charles about his grave concerns for the Rosia Montana region of Transylvania, under threat from Cyanide mining.......
… Open Letter to Prince Charles about Cyanide mining in Romania Rupert Wolfe Murray | 12th September 2013 Comment Mining Romania Politics Protest … of Transylvania, under threat from Cyanide mining....... Dear Prince Charles, Your …
More than 100 organisations have signed a letter repudiating mining companies for putting Indigenous Shuar communities in the Ecuadorean Amazon at risk.
… Rhoades | 15th May 2020 News Ecuador Covid-19 Mining Amazon Ecuadorian Amazon (Photo by … have signed a letter repudiating mining companies for putting Indigenous Shuar … and Developers Association of Canada’s (PDAC) mining fair in Toronto, Canada in March, 2020. …
Last week's decision by the Romanian government to seek UNESCO World Heritage status for Rosia Montana, a historic Carpathian mountain village under threat of gold mining, is a massive victory for campaigners after a hard 15-year struggle, writes Alexandru Predoiu - one that has united farmers, city-dwellers and new-age protestors against cultural and ecological destruction.
… united to save a mountain village from mining apocalypse Alexandru Predoiu WNV | 11th January 2017 Activism Mining Romania Corporations Politics Protest … mountain village under threat of gold mining, is a massive victory for campaigners …
Australian environmentalists' declare new Prime Minister, Tony Abbotts' green agenda as ‘anti-environmental', designed only to profit the mining industry at the cost of climate change solutions, reports Maxine Newlands......
… designed only to profit the mining industry at the cost of climate change … Abbott wants to repeal both the carbon and mining taxes, abolish key green government … Mr Abbott's plans to rip up the carbon price, mining tax, the Clean Energy Finance …
The veteran campaigner talks to the Ecologist about the ongoing struggle to secure indigenous land rights and how he successfully took the Colombian government to court
… Natural World Amazon Indigenous Rights Mining Deforestation Climate Change And Energy … Colombian government do to aid your campaign? Mining is a big threat. In the last two years … there have been about 2,000 requests for mining titles in the Amazon. The previous …
A deal to give up 500,000 acres of public lands in Utah to the tar sands industry in return for 1.5 million acres of industry is a sacrifice too far, writes Alexander Reid Ross, as it disclaims the wider costs of massive water use and contamination in the headwaters of the Colorado River, already seriously stressed by drought.
… ecosystem has been leased to active tar sands mining, the people who live downstream from … being destroyed by the extensive bitumen mining. Much of the vital freshwater ecosystem … the tar sands region of Utah, before the main mining has even commenced. "The wilderness …
Wales should lead the UK in bringing an end to the entire coal industry from opencast mining to highly polluting power stations, writes Gareth Clubb. A new report by Friends of the Earth Cymru shows the Aberthaw plant alone imposes social and environmental costs of nearly £1 billion per year on the country and global climate.
… 29th February 2016 Comment Fossil Fuels Coal Mining Pollution Wales UK Climate Change … end to the entire coal industry from opencast mining to highly polluting power stations, … the long term. The same is true of opencast mining, I suspect, as well, given the supply …
Illegal gold mining in the Amazon has a devastating effect on indigenous peoples, writes Sarina Kidd. First the miners bring disease, deforestation and even murder. Then long after they have gone, communities are left to suffer deadly mercury poisoning. Now the UN has been called on to intervene.
… | 5th April 2016 News Amazon Peru Toxics Mining Pollution Health Un youth-cut-2.jpg Illegal gold mining in the Amazon has a devastating effect … due to the large amount of illegal gold mining taking place on their lands. Mercury is …
Left wing governments across the Americas are faced with a dilemma, writes Daniel Macmillen - high social spending programs financed by income from destructive mining and hydrocarbon extraction - or a slower but sustainable development path that puts ecology, equity and justice first. Their answer - a constant pushing back of the resource frontier.
… Cile Venezuela Bolivia Oil Gas Fossil Fuels Mining Society Politics Development … programs financed by income from destructive mining and hydrocarbon extraction - or a … leave resources in the ground, reject mining projects, resist the short-termist …
Peru is in hot competition with Brazil to be the main focus of Amazonian deforestation, writes Clément Doleac. A neoliberal government desperate to hand over the country's forests, oil, gas, minerals and indigenous lands for corporate exploitation is unafraid to break national laws, turn a blind eye to air and water pollution, and respond to any challenges with overwhelming violence.
… of Peru are primary products due to excessive mining and deforestation leading to many … toward deforestation, excessive logging and mining, at the hands of large or small … the financial arm of the World Bank. [29] Mining - both legal and illegal - destroying …
It's not that Dilma Rousseff, Brazil's ousted President, was wonderful for the environment, writes Ed Atkins. It's that Michel Temer's new regime is certain to be far worse. Plans are afoot to weaken environmental assessments for large projects like mines, roads and dams. And the new Minister of Agriculture is a notorious campaigner for hugely increased deforestation.
… Lula, deforestation returned , large-scale mining and agriculture was expanded, and more … can be chopped down for crops, cattle and mining, with the products sold abroad. As of … areas in the Amazon were of interest to mining companies. These lands - protected by …
Prime Minister Modi's government has frozen the bank accounts of Greenpeace India, writes Praful Bidwai - provoking widespread protest from the environment and civil rights community. It's all part of a wider campaign against 'anti-national' movements that challenge India's development policies based on the aggressive exploitation of coal, minerals, big hydro and nuclear power.
… activists who protest against industrial, mining and irrigation and power generation … projects, and in particular, on the mining and burning of coal - no matter how … itself put into question quite a few of the mining, power, and other projects currently …
Liberal environmentalism represents a dangerous delusion, writes Scott Parkin - that 'playing nice' with Earth-destroying corporations and politicians can yield results worth having. Radical change on climate will only result from bold, confrontational direct actions against the fossil fuel industries and their apologists.
… the struggle against mountaintop removal coal mining. They live it the same way that the Tar …