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, …
Community fears for the restoration of the UK’s largest open pit coal mine.
… | 5th May 2023 | News Coal Climate Change Mining South Wales ffos-y-fran-cut.jpg … "This is a strong and clear message that coal mining goes against Wales’ climate, planning … against the company, which has continued mining coal in the months since its planning …
Campaign groups from Indonesia, Kenya and Peru have called on planners in the UK to turn down opencast coal mines in Co Durham and Derbyshire, write Anne Harris & Hal Rhoades. Not only do the mines damage local health and environment, say the activists. They also threaten global climate stability - and all countries must play their part in ending the world's coal addiction.
… in the Global South, who are opposing coal mining and working for climate justice have … reject the mine to be upheld. The second coal mining application opposed by the letter's … Both communities have a history of coal mining, and campaigners include ex-deep pit …
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 …
Mining for minerals and metals is on the rise, threatening communities, ecosystems and a just transition to clean energy.
… Dawn Stevenson | 12th April 2019 News Mining Brexit UK Extractivism Mineral … Europe Climate Change Renewables Uk Mine Mining for minerals and metals is on the rise, … to follow in the footsteps of the European Mining Boom? Our original (Br)exit date of the …
Campaigners fighting the world’s biggest mining giants in Colombia visit the UK’s newest opencast coal mine.
… Campaigners fighting the world’s biggest mining giants in Colombia visit the UK’s … with decades of coal dust, explains: ‘When mining first came to the region in the 1990s, … works to expose the wrongdoing of the mining company in a region in which the …
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 …
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 …
The UK's coal burn is not just having a huge impact on climate, writes Anne Harris. It's also devastating communities in the UK, Russia, Colombia and other nations that supply our coal power stations. Those impacted are doing their best to resist the mining companies that are destroying their land, stealing their homes and polluting their air and water. But they need our help!
… impacted are doing their best to resist the mining companies that are destroying their … is to quickly phase out coal burning and the mining it requires once and for all. The … and the USA in the year to August 2015. Mining in the UK In the UK communities are …
Environmentalists concerned about companies digging up gold and coal should also turn their attention the the energy use of mining Bitcoin, the virtual currency threatening to destabilise 'hard' cash. BRENDAN MONTAGUE reports
… Energy consumed in mining Bitcoin would power a quarter of 25 … turn their attention the the energy use of mining Bitcoin, the virtual currency … report from Accounts & Legal . The Bitcoin mining industry currently accounts for an …
The Paris Agreement is facing its first big test in Queensland, Australia, writes Justine Bell. After a long process beset by legal challenges, the massive Carmichael coal mine is inching closer to approval - which would open up the entire 250,000 sq.km Galilee basin and its 28 billion tonnes of coal to exploitation. Both state and federal governments have the power to ban it. But will they?
… needed by a proponent to conduct a large mining operation in Queensland: a mining lease, issued by Queensland's minister … no legal precedent for this, as historically mining projects have always been permitted, …
The curse of Uranium has fallen once again on the Black Hills of South Dakota, ancestral home to the Lakota Indians - now fighting a massive mining project that threatens land, rivers and groundwater. But this time, writes Ben Whitford, the Lakota are not alone ...
… water! Ben Whitford | 3rd March 2014 News Mining Ecocide Indigenous Peoples USA Water … the Lakota Indians - now fighting a massive mining project that threatens land, rivers and … ... In recent years, that's led a number of mining corporations to target the region, and …
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 …
Why are coal-fired power stations continuing to buy coal in excess of their projected life span?
… News Change Makers Coal Coal Power Opencast Mining Pont Valley Campaign To Protect Pont … of something you push down the price. "By mining more coal in the UK than is burned in … to the local environment than traditional mining which it came to replace, hosting a …
Frontline communities are showing the way to a 'post-extractive' renewable energy transition that is socially just and ecologically viable.
… just and ecologically viable. Large-scale mining is the deadliest industry in the world … and climate breakdown, the mineral and metal mining industry is in rude health. Mining companies are taking advantage of new …
Global upswell of civil society organisations, communities and academics tells EC to align raw materials sourcing plans with the interests of people and planet.
… Marianne Brooker | 29th September 2020 | News Mining Climate Change Climate Emergency Yes To Life No To Mining European Commission Extractivism … European Commission’s plans are encouraging mining projects in both the Global South and …
The government makes bold claims about tackling climate change and phasing out coal power stations, writes Guy Shrubsole. Yet it's 'relaxed' about two huge new coal mines that would produce ten million tonnes of coal, blighting landscapes and afflicting the health of vulnerable communities. It's time to say no to all onshore fossil fuel production.
… from UK soil. This highly destructive form of mining - gouging great holes in the landscape, … transaction - to a firm with no experience of mining and, it appears, no capital prior to … Assembly voted for a moratorium on opencast mining - but the Welsh Government haven't yet …
Next month thousands will gather in Wales to shut down the UK's open cast coal mine at Ffosyfran, whose 3,500 acres abut both Merthyr Tydfil, one of Britain's most deprived communities, and the glorious Brecon Beacons national park. It will be one of dozens of coordinated actions across the UK, and around the world, to bring the age of coal to the rapid end it so richly deserves.
… the Welsh Assembly elections and ending coal mining will be a major election issue. Back in … from dangerous, unhealthy and uncertain mining, to millions of new jobs in clean … already rejecting the application, the mining company Miller Argent is appealing, …
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 …
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 …
The impending renewal of the license for a uranium mine in Nebraska has ignited a years long resistance among those - most of them women - for whom good health and safe, clean water in the Ogallala aquifer is as important as life itself, writes Suree Towfighnia. But for others, jobs and money come first. Now the Nuclear Regulatory Commission must reach its decision.
… Waging NonViolence | 13th October 2015 News Mining Indigenous Peoples USA Water Pollution … to purchase "Protect Sacred Water, No Uranium Mining" yard signs and placed them around … and community about the dangers of uranium mining, sees the issue as cut and dry. "You're …