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Tackle Climate Change Now or Risk 720 Million People Sliding Back Into Extreme Poverty Report Warns
Tackle Climate Change Now or Risk 720 Million People Sliding Back Into Extreme Poverty Report Warns An astonishing 720 million people around the world face falling back into extreme poverty unless we tackle climate change immediately, warns a new report by the Overseas Development Institute (ODI). The report was published as world leaders gathered this week at […]
For the Love of Water: El Salvador’s Mining Ban
For the Love of Water: El Salvador’s Mining Ban For some time now, U.S. and Canadian mining companies have been seeking out new mining sites in Latin America and elsewhere in the developing world. This is partly because high-grade ores that are easily accessible in the U.S. and Canada are in the process of being […]
Nine Months After Polley Breach, Alaskans Seek Compensation Guarantee from BC
Nine Months After Polley Breach, Alaskans Seek Compensation Guarantee from BC Proposed northern BC mines ‘source of great angst in Juneau.’ Earlier this month, Heather Hardcastle, a commercial fisherwoman from Juneau, Alaska met in Williams Lake, B.C. with members of the Tsilhqot’in First Nation. They shared a meal of wild Alaskan salmon that Hardcastle brought […]
Canadian Miners on the Road to Accountability
Canadian Miners on the Road to Accountability There was a time not that long ago when Canadian mining companies could feasibly commit all sorts of human rights abuses abroad, trampling the rights of local impoverished communities and overstepping their remit as a foreign firm extracting natural resources. Numerous allegations against these mining firms have cropped […]
Environmentalists Win Federal Lawsuit Over Colorado Coal Mines
Environmentalists Win Federal Lawsuit Over Colorado Coal Mines Environmentalists won big May 8 in a lawsuit brought against the federal government over two coal mines near the northern Colorado town of Craig. The nonprofit environmental group WildEarth Guardians sued the U.S. Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation and Enforcement (OSM), a bureau within the U.S.Department of the Interior, over permits granted in […]
Alaskans Ring Alarm Bells Over Potential for More Mount Polley Disasters As B.C. Pushes Forward With New Mines
Alaskans Ring Alarm Bells Over Potential for More Mount Polley Disasters As B.C. Pushes Forward With New Mines Worried Alaskans who fear lucrative fisheries and tourism industries are at risk from lax B.C. oversight of mine safety are meeting with state officials next week to ask the U.S. State Department to push for more input on mine development along […]
Mount Polley spill blamed on design of embankment
Mount Polley spill blamed on design of embankment Independent investigation finds foundation of earthen dam failed because of unstable underlying layers An independent investigation has determined the breach of the Mount Polley mine tailings dam in B.C. was caused by a failure to detect a weak layer in its foundation, likening the massive embankment to […]
We Must Start Digging Our Way Out of Canada’s Mining Dilemma
We Must Start Digging Our Way Out of Canada’s Mining Dilemma It sometimes seems people in the mining and fossil fuel industries — along with their government promoters — don’t believe in the future. What else could explain the mad rush to extract and use up the Earth’s resources as quickly and wastefully as possible? […]
Canada’s Mining Sector Braces For Challenging Year In 2015
Canada’s Mining Sector Braces For Challenging Year In 2015. MONTREAL – Canada’s mining sector is bracing for another challenging year in 2015 as slower growth in China is expected to continue to dampen selling prices for many metals. Iron ore suffered the biggest drop in the past year, losing nearly half its value to reach […]
Bloom Lake hit with record environmental fine – Business – CBC News
Bloom Lake hit with record environmental fine – Business – CBC News. A mining company has plead guilty to 45 charges under the fisheries act and will pay a $7.5-million fine for improperly releasing pollutants into fish-bearing waters. Bloom Lake General Partner Ltd. has been ordered to pay the fine because the Triangle Tailings Pond dam […]
Blockading Australia’s largest coal mine – Features – Al Jazeera English
Blockading Australia’s largest coal mine – Features – Al Jazeera English. Maules Creek, Australia – On a balmy Sunday in late November, the renowned Rugby Union Wallabies player David Pocock chained himself to mining equipment where he spent the next 10 hours with a handful of others to protest against the bulldozing of a state forest […]
Few jobs despite booming Mozambique economy – Features – Al Jazeera English
Few jobs despite booming Mozambique economy – Features – Al Jazeera English. Maputo, Mozambique – Beto Magumane Cossa was orphaned at 14 when his father was killed by a woman with whom he was having an affair. Alone and with no other family living in Magude, a rural district 155km from the capital Maputo’s shopping malls and luxury […]
Uranium Mine Sludge Discharge Permit Threatens Lake Malawi | Environment News Service
Uranium Mine Sludge Discharge Permit Threatens Lake Malawi | Environment News Service. KARONGA, Malawi, November 25, 2014 (ENS) – Paladin Africa Ltd, which mines uranium ore in Malawi’s northern district of Karonga, has come under fire from a coalition of Malawian civil society groups and chiefs over its proposal to discharge mining sludge into the […]
