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 …
Almost entirely unknown to the outside world, and even to most local residents, hundreds of square kilometres of South Africa's Karoo dryland have been bought up by uranium mining companies, writes Dr Stefan Cramer. With no strategic assessment of the industry's devastating impacts and massive water demand, official permission could soon be granted for vast open pit mines.
… Uranium mining threatens South Africa‘s iconic Karoo … Stefan Cramer | 28th April 2016 News Nuclear Mining South Africa Namibia Russia Pollution … Karoo dryland have been bought up by uranium mining companies, writes Dr Stefan Cramer. …
A critical appraisal of the mining industry’s contributions to the global water crisis, on World Water Day 2019 and in the wake of recent disasters.
… Undermining the watercycle Hannibal Rhoades Sara Campanales | 22nd March 2019 News Mining Water World Water Day Health … A critical appraisal of the mining industry’s contributions to the global … clean water advocate, Maude Barlow, explains: Mining and water “Major bodies of water have …
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 …
This month a tailings dam at the Mount Polley mine in BC breached, writes Carol Linnitt - spilling 14.5 billion litres of toxic mine waste into Quesnel Lake. A major source of freshwater and one of BC's premier fly-fishing destinations, the lake will never be the same again. But it's just the first big victim of Canada's wave of environmental de-regulation ...
… for caution tape: why Canada can expect more mining disasters Carol Linnitt DeSmog.ca | 27th August 2014 Activism Mining Water Waste Pollution Regulation Canada … the surface: 14.5 billion litres of toxic mining waste. This month a tailings dam at 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 …
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, …
Citizens of Cáceres, Spain, are opposing lithium mining project that jeopardises World Heritage and sustainable livelihoods at a new extractive frontier.
… Rhoades | 10th June 2020 News Lithium Mining Extractivism Spain Caceres Mountains … of Cáceres, Spain, are opposing lithium mining project that jeopardises World Heritage … project. Infinity Lithium, an Australian mining company, plans to extract lithium from …
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 …
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 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 …
In China's remote Mongolian region, indigenous herders are being forced from their traditional pastures to make way for roads and vast mining projects. Last week they held a public demonstration - but it was immediately dispersed with ten arrests.
… 2014 News Indigenous Peoples China Mongolia Mining Water mongolia-arshaan-herders-cut.jpg … pastures to make way for roads and vast mining projects. Last week they held a public … for the purpose of expanding tourism and mining. The local authorities of Hejing County …
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 …
The Amazon basin faces 'ecosystem collapse' according to a new report about hundreds of major dams and other mega-projects planned for the region - home to the world's greatest rainforest. David Hill reports.
… | 15th May 2014 News Forests Water Energy Mining Renewables carajas_mine.jpg The Amazon … dams and extractive, such as oil, gas and mining. The focus is on the number of current … 1.6 million - km2 of the Amazon covered by mining concessions. 1.1 million - km2 of the …
Pollution, poisoning and the loss of human life due to unsafe water are the accepted costs of doing business in America.
… radioactive waste from the historic uranium mining that fuelled the Cold War arms race … bottom fell out of the uranium market, the mining companies declared bankruptcy and left … or legislator ruling on allowing more uranium mining, I might not know any better. There …
Brazil has suffered its biggest ever industrial disaster, write Ana Luisa Naghettini & Geraldo Lopes. Breached and overflowing dams have released a massive slug of toxic muds and tailings from iron mining into the country's fifth largest river system that provides drinking water for downstream cities, destroying ecosystems in rivers and vast areas of biologically fragile ocean.
… News Water Waste Pollution Brazil Ecocide Law Mining Corporations brazil-dam-mud-cut.jpg … slug of toxic muds and tailings from iron mining into the country's fifth largest river … on 5th November, a mud dam burst from the mining enterprise Samarco, a joint venture of …
International corporations are decimating nature, destroying lives and manipulating opinion. Here's how to stop them..
… El Salvador Peru Latin America Corporations Mining Water ENEL Glencore Editor’s Picks … over its public water system. A Canadian mining company seeks control of El Salvador’s … wander into a country and start drilling, mining, fracking or damming. It needs a …
Hormone-disrupting pollutants in the urban rivers of South Wales are having adverse effects on the health and development of wild birds such as dippers, writes Steve Ormerod. Could this humble bird be the 'new canary' for environmental toxins?
… celebrated example is the canary - which in mining regions such as South Wales were once … more come home to Wales - and to very same mining areas where canaries were once taken …
India's neoliberal government is attempting the mass seizure of indigenous lands, commons and forests in order to hand them over for corporate exploitation with mines, dams and plantations, writes Pushpa Achanta. But tribal communities are rising up to resist the takeover, which is not only morally reprehensible but violates India's own laws and international human rights obligations.
… Peoples Forests Water Energy Law Human Rights Mining niyamgiri-women-cut.jpg India's … and carry out ecologically harmful mining. These legislative and policy decisions … Vedanta's illegitimate and harmful mining in the Niyamgiri. Vedanta's mining …
Russia's Lake Baikal is under threat by a massive dam and pipeline on the main river that feeds into it, that would supply mines with power and water, writes Anson Mackay. In line to fund the project? The World Bank.
… | 19th April 2015 News Finance Water Energy Mining Russia Mongolia Natural World … power and water for the country's booming mining industry. However environmental groups … invasive algae along its coasts, unregulated mining and a water level which just passed a " …
Belo Monte is just one of a dozen giant dam projects Brazil plans to build in the Amazon region in the coming decades and opens up the world's largest tropical rainforest to oil and mining exploration
… | 15th August 2011 News Rainforest Brazil Mining Hydropower Water Energy amazon.jpg When … largest tropical rainforest to oil and mining exploration The Kayapó chief stands, … region in the coming decades. First dams then mining The obvious argument in favor of …
Spain's Coto Doñana shows the value of EU conservation law, writes Laurence Rose, as the UK tries to get rid of the Birds and Habitats Directives. Both have proved essential to the protection and restoration of one of Europe's greatest wetlands.
… Water Pollution Farming Law EU Conservation Mining cd-storks-cut.jpg Spain's Coto Doñana … releasing a 5 million tonne tsunami of mining residue into the rivers below. Some …
Six environment heroes, one from each continent, are honoured for their work today - fighting threats from giant coal mines to forest destruction, fracking, high dams, illegal development and toxic waste dumps. Sophie Morlin-Yron reports.
… dams, palm oil development, land grabs, coal mining, toxic waste dumps. The world's biggest …