The pristine landscape of South Africa's Wild Coast is under threat from mining, writes Hal Rhoades, and the communities standing up to defend the land are facing deadly consequences: harassment, threats, physical assault and murder. Attacks on mine opponents have taken four lives so far and many others have been injured. But the opposition is growing and gaining international support.
… Mining, money and murder: the deadly struggle … Wild Coast Hal Rhoades | 12th May 2016 News Mining South Africa Africa Indigenous Peoples … Africa's Wild Coast is under threat from mining, writes Hal Rhoades, and the …
The latest country to be hooked under 'free trade' agreements is Colombia, writes Pete Dolack, sued for tens of billions of dollars by US and Canadian gold mining companies for valuing its national parks and the high-altitude Andean wetlands that provide 70% of the nation's water above the profits of foreign corporations. Free trade or clean water? You can't have both.
… Pete Dolack | 14th April 2016 News Colombia Mining Trade US Canada Water Conservation … billions of dollars by US and Canadian gold mining companies for valuing its national … standoff between clean drinking water and mining profits has taken shape in Colombia. …
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 …
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 …
London-listed copper giant Antofagasta has been entangled in scandals in Chile involving water depletion, dangers to local communities, corruption of national politics and environmental contamination, write Ali Maeve & Liam Barrington-Bush. Yet the London Stock Exchange remains silent. Following the company's AGM last week, a new London Mining Network report puts their actions and operations into the spotlight.
… | 1st June 2017 Ethical Living Chile Mining Finance Water Pollution UK Corporations … the company's AGM last week, a new London Mining Network report puts their actions and … operations into the spotlight. The biggest mining waste tailings dam in Latin America is …
The opposition of Ecuador's Shuar People to large scale mining and hydroelectric development in their ancestral forests has triggered a full-scale military occupation of their lands in the Amazon cloud forest, writes Jake Ling, accompanied by a surge in state-sponsored murder and violence - for which Chinese and Canadian mining companies must share responsibility.
… Blood and fire: mining and militarization in the Ecuadorian … January 2017 News Ecuador Indigenous Peoples Mining Human Rights Corporations … of Ecuador's Shuar People to large scale mining and hydroelectric development in their …
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 …
Two huge open pit mines in northern Norway are on the verge of approval, writes Tina Andersen Vågenes - even though they would dump hundreds of millions of tonnes of tailings in fjords where wild salmon spawn. Scientists are voicing serious concerns, and protests are growing, but government and mining companies appear determined to push the projects forward regardless.
… Andersen Vågenes | 28th November 2014 News Mining Norway Corporations Waste Pollution … and protests are growing, but government and mining companies appear determined to push the … forward regardless. In Scandinavia, the mining industry is looking for ways to expand …
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 …
Rio Tinto's QMM mine in Madagascar was meant to be an exemplar of 'corporate social responsibility' and environmental best practice. But the reality experienced by local communities is different, writes Yvonne Orengo, with uncompensated land seizures, food insecurity, deforestation and social deprivation. New concerns are emerging about the infringement of legal buffer zones and radiation exposure. Rio Tinto must be held responsible for its actions!
… Yvonne Orengo | 3rd April 2017 Activism Mining Biodiversity Madagascar Forests … for its actions! The fourth largest mining company in the world, Rio Tinto, claims … also been raised about the infringement of mining boundaries [ 2 ] and encroachment into …
Ecuador's protected forests to define Rights of Nature and test jurisprudence in country’s Constitutional Court.
… Brooker | 14th July 2020 News Ecuador Mining Conservation Thought Leaders Los Cedros … has been promoting large scale metal mining for some years now, without respecting … "We have been presenting arguments that mining in Protected Forests is a violation of …
Greenland's first female prime minister is on a modernising drive to prosperity and independence, But will the combination of melting glaciers, oil, mining projects and mass immigration bring wealth or destruction?
… Comment Greenland Indigenous Peoples Europe Mining Corporations aleqa-hammond.png Oil … the combination of melting glaciers, oil, mining projects and mass immigration bring … for business" - welcoming investment in oil, mining, hydropower and other energy projects. …
Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership trade deal would undermine environmental protections in Asia.
… the mine, and later halting all gold mining in the country, while a new mineral law … failing to mitigate damages and for obtaining mining permits illegally. The court ruled … afterColombia’s Constitutional Court banned mining activities in a sensitive ecosystem …
Las Casitas is a small community living on the edge of one of the world's largest coal mines, writes Richard Solly - one inhabited by the descendants of escaped slaves, located in the poorest region of Colombia. The village is under imminent threat of forced displacement by the brutal corporation that runs the Cerrejón coal mine.
… the Cerrejon mine, owned by London-listed mining multinationals Anglo American , BHP … is pollution, environmental effects, but also mining representatives threatening our way of … action targeting the Chief Executives of the mining multinationals that own Cerrejon. …
Global mining giant Rio Tinto markets itself as a 'sustainable company', writes Kemal Özkan. But serious failures in its reporting, and its attempt to hold an Australian indigenous group to ransom, reveal a very different truth: the company is driven by a reckless pursuit of profit at any cost.
… Rio Tinto's 'sustainable mining' claims exposed Kemal Özkan | 30th July 2014 News Mining Corporations Sustainability Australia … Indigenous Peoples rt_rally-cut.jpg Global mining giant Rio Tinto markets itself as a …
Students, workers and civil rights activists gathered in their hundreds today in Delhi to protest at the mining company Vedanta, and the Indian government's support of highly destructive mining projects in forests and on indigenous peoples' lands.
… in Delhi The Ecologist | 31st July 2014 News Mining India Indigenous Peoples Forests … hundreds today in Delhi to protest at the mining company Vedanta, and the Indian … government's support of highly destructive mining projects in forests and on indigenous …
This day 20 years ago one of Britain's most committed and effective environmental campaigners died trying to save a coastal forest in southern Madagascar from mining, writes Yvonne Orengo. The world has been a poorer place without Andrew Lees - and his fears for the Petriky forest and local indigenous communities have been proved all too close to the mark.
… Orengo | 31st December 2014 Activism Forests Mining Indigenous Peoples Corporations local … a coastal forest in southern Madagascar from mining, writes Yvonne Orengo. The world has … track record of the multinational mining giant in other countries, Andrew feared …
The UK’s most valuable import from Brazil – gold – is fuelling deforestation in the Amazon, new footage reveals.
… not sourced from illegal and deforesting mining and production. The WWF charity has … to increase production. “Illegal gold mining in the Brazilian Amazon is wreaking … of 'Garimpo' - small-scale illegal gold mining - in Indigenous lands and protected …
A new wave of ruthless conquistadors has arrived in Peru, write Aldo Orellana Lopez and Philippa de Boissière - global corporations after minerals, oil, gas, timber, land ... And instead of brandishing the Bible and the sword, they proclaim high sounding policies on environment and human rights, while co-opting police and politicians in their pillage of resources.
… Xstrata, propelling it to third largest mining corporation in the world. The mega … publicly as " one of the most responsible mining companies in the world " , on the … to Glencore Xstrata's Tintaya and Antapaccay mining projects. The province has a population …
The coal power station at Aberthaw is not just polluting much of South Wales with its filthy emissions. It could also be seriously damaging the health of children in Colombia with coal dust from BHP Billiton's massive Cerrejón coal mine. In this open letter, Luz Ángela Uriana Epiayu implores RWE npower to shut down its stinking, obsolete and illegal power station.
RWE npower, Colombian coal is killing our children! Close Aberthaw! Luz Ángela Uriana Epiayu | 16th February 2017 Comment Health Pollution Coal Colobia Wales Energy Corporations luz angela uriana y …
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 …
Africa is being opened up like a tin of sardines to a new wave of resource extraction, writes Colin Todhunter. Masked under the soubriquets of 'investment', 'growth' and 'free trade', a handful of vast global corporations are systematically plundering the continent's mineral wealth and leaving desolation in their wake, backed to the hilt by that ever-faithful servant of capital - the UK government.
… Colin Todhunter | 14th July 2016 News Africa Mining Corporations War Economics Western … Exchange (LSE) - most of them British - have mining operations in 37 sub-Saharan African … power and influence to ensure that British mining companies have access to Africa's raw …
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 …