Disastrous water pollution from gold mines in El Salvador has united government and people to oppose new metal mines, writes Lynn Holland. In Central America's most water scarce country, the imperative is to keep lakes, rivers and streams clean and wholesome. But there may be a heavy price to pay, with a Canadian mining company pressing a $300 million 'compensation' claim.
… For the love of water: El Salvador's mining ban may cost $300m 'compensation' Lynn Holland | 10th October 2015 News Mining Water El Salvador Central America … may be a heavy price to pay, with a Canadian mining company pressing a $300 million …
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 …
For over two years the small community of San José del Golfo has maintained a 24-hour barricade against the US-owned mine El Tambor that threatens to destroy their land and water. The non-violent resistance, led by women, is transforming the traditional 'macho' culture, and attracting support across Guatemala, and beyond.
… Waging Nonviolence | 1st April 2015 News Mining Water Pollution Guatemala Corporations … Peoples Council, released a list of all mining concessions across Guatemala. According … obtained through the Ministry of Energy and Mining, and the National Council of Protected …
Thirty years after diamonds were first discovered in Botswana's Kalahari desert, the Bushmen have been evicted, and the first diamonds have gone on sale. Happy Valentines!
… 2015 News Botswana Indigenous Peoples Mining diamonds-cut.jpg Thirty years after … has been exposed by allowing diamond mining and fracking exploration to go ahead … from the mine." Read my lips - no diamond mining in the Kalahari! In 2002, Botwana's …
Most gold mining in Peru causes serious environmental damage, write John Crabtree & Judith Condor-Vidal, but there is one exception - a Fair Trade certified mine close to the world-famous Nazca Lines. Now it's up to us to demand Fair Trade gold from the jewellery trade, rewarding responsible producers and expanding the market for new Fair Trade gold miners.
… Fair Trade gold mining in the highlands of Peru John Crabtree … | 14th January 2015 Ethical Living Mining Pollution Society Peru South America company-office-cut.jpg Mining with a human face - the Sotrami company …
Ecuador's president, Rafael Correa, has personally attacked eco-defender Carlos Zorrilla in TV broadcasts for resisting a vast new copper mine in a precious area of pristine cloud forest, and opposing the advance of oil exploration into the Amazon. Fearful for his life, Zorilla is now seeking international support for his, and his community's, battle for land, water and the natural world.
… Zorrilla | 25th March 2015 News Ecuador Mining Ecocide Forests Commons Natural World … I have been an activist in Intag's anti-mining struggle for two long decades. But it … agricultural communities. Until the mining companies came looking for copper, the …
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, …
Indigenous Australians are systematically deprived of the benefits of mining and other developments, writes Seán Kerins, and being left to suffer their environmental impacts. As Abbott's government prepares a bonfire of 'red tape', it's time to put Indigenous interests first, and place their communities at the centre of decision making.
… Australia Indigenous Peoples Waste Pollution Mining Human Rights mine-pollution-cut.jpg … systematically deprived of the benefits of mining and other developments, writes Seán … in full swing. Here, over the past few years, mining effort has increased, with the …
A legal challenge has been launched against what would be Australia's biggest coal mine, writes Samantha Hepburn. If it succeeds, all future coal mine assessments will have to include the impacts of the resulting CO2 emissions on Australia's most important nature sites, such as the Great Barrier Reef.
… Legal challenge puts coal mining's climate blame on trial Samantha … Coal Cliamte Change Natural World strip_coal_mining-cut.jpg A legal challenge has been … the Great Barrier Reef. The future of coal mining in the Galilee Basin has become a point …
Canadian mining company Gabriel Resources is seeking over $2.5 billion damages from Romania after it rejected a vast gold mine at Rosia Montana, writes Oliver Tickell. Incredibly, it is taking legal action under a UK-Romania trade agreement.
… mine Oliver Tickell | 14th August 2015 News Mining UK Canada Romania Corporations Law … Trade rosia-montana-protest-cut.jpg Canadian mining company Gabriel Resources is seeking … refused to pass revisions to the country's mining laws designed to enable the company to …
An indigenous leader in Colombia's 'gold belt' has been killed by unknown gunmen as tensions grow between indigenous communities and outside gold mining interests, many of them linked to illegal armed groups and the drug trade.
… - indigenous defender murdered in gold mining frenzy The Ecologist | 10th April 2015 News Mining Indigenous Peoples Colombia … indigenous communities and outside gold mining interests, many of them linked to …
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 …
A project to mine 225,000 acres of seabed in Baja California's San Ignacio lagoon threatens the myriad sea life of the area, writes Haydée Rodríguez: not just Gray whales but Blues, Humpbacks and Loggerhead turtles, from noise, disturbance and radioactive releases.
… Haydée Rodríguez | 12th June 2015 News Oceans Mining Cetaceans Mexico … then arrive on our tables, making phosphate mining a potential source of radioactive … or declared a moratorium on phosphate mining until the industry can show it does not …
Beijing has called a halt to new coal mines and will close hundreds of existing operations, writes Kieran Cooke. The move reflects the slowing economy, falling energy demand, concerns over air pollution and climate change, and the massive rollout of renewables.
… China clamps down on coal mining Kieran Cooke | 4th January 2015 News … are also questions about whether the coal-mining regions of China - predominantly in the … coal production area, have been destroyed by mining: air and water pollution has caused a …
Caerphilly councillors yesterday refused permission for a huge open cast coal mine in South Wales that's fiercely opposed by local people furious at its impacts on air, landscape, tranquillity and climate, writes Guy Shrubsole. Coming so soon after the rejection of fracking in Lancashire, the message is clear: fossil fuels are best left safely underground.
… campaigned against the imposition of opencast mining onto the communities of the valleys. …
Protestors who closed down the coal mine on climate change denier Matt Ridley's estate faced a claim of £100,000 in losses, writes Brendan Montague. But a judge cut that down by over 90% while declaring the eight defendants of 'impeccable character'.
… of 'impeccable character'. The coal mining company working on climate denier Matt … protesters had become frustrated that coal mining and burning is leading to climate … do to help they replied 'stop opening coal mining'. "They prevented access to the site …
The president of Burma has decided that coal is the way to future wealth and prosperity, write Carole Oudot & Matthieu Baudey. But if the experiences of farmers and village people near Tigyit, site of the country's biggest coal mine and coal-fired power plant is anything to go by, it will bring only poverty, pollution, ill-health and land grabs to rural communities across the country.
… in Shan State, show that any increase in coal mining and power generation is only going to … suffering from the harsh impacts of coal mining. Now they fear a further deterioration … the power plant is currently inactive, coal mining at Tigyit continues, producing around …
When Michael Buckley took a white water rafting trip in Tibet in 2005, he had no idea of the adventure he was embarking on - a ten-year investigation of China ruthless exploitation of Tibet's mineral and hydroelectric resources, and its systematic attack on indigenous Tibetans, their culture and their survival on the land.
… 2015 News China Tibet Water Renewables Energy Mining Land Grabs Indigenous Peoples … have bravely protested against dams and mining at great risk, with a number killed, … The migrant workers build dams or work at mining sites. Up to 20,000 Chinese migrant …
For 16 years the Thai government has ignored the plight of a community where toxic lead mine waste is causing severe chronic poisoning - defying both a 2013 court order, and its international obligations. It's just one of many toxic sites across Thailand that need to be cleaned up - but the government's main concern is to encourage further industrialisation.
… Ecologist | 22nd January 2015 News Thailand Mining Waste Toxics Indigenous Peoples Law … reopening and further developing lead mining and the lead industry. "The Thai … before even thinking of expanding lead mining." The response by provincial and …
What's needed to pull the world's economy out of recession? According to the G20, it's a massive wave of 'infrastructure' development worth as much $70 trillion, writes Bill Laurance. But all the roads, mines, dams, pipelines and 'development corridors' will inflict massive damage on wildlife populations and natural havens, not to mention local communities that stand in the way.
… | 16th March 2015 News Development Transport Mining Ecocide Forests … The Amazon also has almost 53,000 active mining leases , covering some 20% of the … and fires, poaching, illegal gold mining and rampant land speculation. Mining …
Lord Ridley, a card-carrying member of Britain's 1%, led the Northern Rock bank to collapse. Now he's causing another kind of catastrophe: the coal mined off his Northumberland estate is causing 1% of the UK's CO2 emissions. No wonder he's a climate sceptic!
… mines are operated by family firm Banks Mining. The coal under the ground is still … coal, oil, natural gas , quarrying and mining." Unburnable coal The transparency …
Last weekend Toni Belly was occupying Germany's biggest open cast coal mine in the once lovely Rhineland area, one of thousands of protestors from 350.org and other groups determined to shut the operation down. Nursing his bruises and eyes still sore from pepper spray, he set down his account of an unforgettable day of action.
Into the heart of the beast - occupying Germany's open cast coal nightmare Toni Belly | 21st August 2015 Activism Protest Fossil Fuels Coal Germany Climate Change Corporations no-coal-cut.jpg Last …
The coal profits that fill Matt Ridley's bank account come wet with the blood of those killed and displaced by the climate disaster his mines contribute to, writes T. If hgis consicence is no longer functioning, then others must step into that role to confront him with the evil that he is doing.
… Crown prosecutes us while Ridley and Banks Mining Group are deemed 'lawful' in undermining the ecosystem upon which the wellbeing … Crown prosecutes us while Ridley and Banks Mining Group are deemed 'lawful' in …
Over a year after violent conflict began in East Ukraine, indications are emerging of its severe environmental impacts in the highly industrialised Donbas region, and the grave health risks to civilians that will endure long into the future. The area will need international assistance both to reduce the hazards, and to 'green' the region's often polluting industries.
… Stricken coal mines a long term hazard Coal mining has been the backbone of the economy of … among the most lethal in the area's risky mining industry), the chair of the mine's … and unexploded ordnance. Challenges in determining the extent of damage The prevailing …