Kitimat's cleaner, more productive smelter pours first aluminum
Kitimat's cleaner, more productive smelter pours first aluminum
KITIMAT, B.C. — A ceremonial first pour of molten metal at Rio Tinto Alcan's aluminumplant Tuesday marked the completion ofa multibillion-dollar modernization project in the northern British Columbia community of Kitimat.
The Canadian Press
The Canadian Press
Radioactive city: how Johannesburg’s townships are paying for its mining past
Radioactive city: how Johannesburg’s townships are paying for its mining past
Much of the waste from 600 abandoned mines around South Africa’s largest city is piled high next to residential communities – most of which are poor and black
The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Greg Hunt approves $1.2bn Shenhua coalmine on Liverpool Plains
Greg Hunt approves $1.2bn Shenhua coalmine on Liverpool Plains
Australian environment minister says strict conditions will prevent Chinese-owned mine from affecting farmland or water supplies but farmers are outraged
The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Barnaby Joyce: mining companies and state governments 'too greedy' over CSG
The agriculture minister calls for no coal seam gas mining on prime farmland, and decries animal rights activists, in speech on the government’s white paper
The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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The anatomy of a campaign: tax justice, ActionAid
ActionAid’s tax justice campaign recently won a Bond international development award. What did it achieve and how?
The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Conservatives' collective tantrum over the pope has been a wonder to behold
The week-long freakout in the Australian over Laudato Si’ is the overdue realisation by conservatives that the Catholic church doesn’t belong to them
The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU