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.
Thai communities poisoned by illegal lead mine waste The Ecologist | 22nd January 2015 News Thailand Mining Waste Toxics Indigenous Peoples Law klity-creek-tooth-brushing-cut.jpg For 16 years the …
The EDF board is meeting tomorrow to reach its 'final investment decision' on Hinkley C. It was meant to be a rubber stamp but now it's anything but, as EDF's share price sinks to a new low, unions and employee directors harden their opposition to the project, and projects in France, Finland and China run way over time and cost with severe technical problems and safety concerns.
EDF's Hinkley C decision 'on a knife edge' as problems crowd in Oliver Tickell | 26th January 2016 News Nuclear Energy Finance UK France China Waste hinkley-blockade-cut.jpg The EDF board is meeting …
Australia's nuclear industry has a shameful history of 'radioactive racism' that dates from the British bomb tests in the 1950s, writes Jim Green. The same attitudes persist today with plans to dump over half a million tonnes of high and intermediate level nuclear waste on Aboriginal land, and open new uranium mines. But now Aboriginal peoples and traditional land owners are fighting back!
… been run in a real Udnyu (whitefella) way. Timelines are short, information is hard to …
The European Commission has confirmed that it will drop its 'circular economy' package, writes James Crisp, in the face of protest by MEPs and environment ministers. The EC's insistence that a future version would be 'improved' - but in in unspecified ways - only raised suspicions of a deregulatory coup by Europe's dirtiest businesses.
Europe's 'circular economy' waste laws binned despite MEPs' fury James Crisp EurActiv | 26th January 2015 News Waste EU Politics Corporations dump-cut.jpg The European Commission has confirmed that …