Showing posts with label extractive-industry. Show all posts
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19 April 2012
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Friday marks the two-year anniversary of the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico. Photo: Reuters24 March 2012
War for water in Chile's Atacama Desert: Vines or mines?
Chile's Copiapo Valley should be a picturesque grape-growing region. Instead, there is mile after mile of rows of withered vines along this stretch of the Atacama Desert
By Katia Moskvitch | BBC News | 23 March 201
In the Atacama Desert, farmers and mining firms fight for water
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Protesting natives shut down Ecuador capital
Protesting natives supported by opponents of President Rafael Correa brought Ecuador's capital to a standstill Thursday, demanding an end to policies they say will open the Amazon rainforest to vast mining projects and ravage the environment
AFP in Yahoo! News | Mar 22, 2012
Ecuadorean natives march to protest policies by President Rafael Correa they say will result in more mining in the Amazon region.
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20 March 2012
Drilling for Oil in Eden: Initiative to Save Amazon Rainforest in Ecuador Is Uncertain
The most biologically diverse habitat in the western hemisphere, the Yasuní rainforest in Ecuador, is under threat. One hectare contains more species of trees than all of North America, but hidden beneath this Garden of Eden lies temptation: oil worth billions
By R. Douglas Fields | Scientific American | March 17, 2012
Pumping gasoline in Quito, Ecuador. Oil drilling threatens the Yasuní rainforest. Petroleum is Ecuador's primary source of income, but the country's reserves will be depleted in 15-20 years.
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16 March 2012
Coal-reliant Poland increasingly out of step with Europe on climate change
Frustrations with Poland are growing in the European Union after the coal-powered nation for a second time blocked the EU’s long-term plans for cutting carbon emissions
By Associated Press | The Washington Post | March 14, 2012
Coal is transported at the Zeran Heating Plant in Warsaw, Poland, Wednesday, March 14, 2012. Frustrations with Poland are growing in the EU after the coal-powered nation blocked for a second time last week. (Alik Keplicz/Associated Press)
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Rare earths and climate change: In a hole?
Demand for some rare-earth elements could rapidly outstrip supply
The Economist | Mar 17th 2012
Time to start digging for victory
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When the Mining Is Over, a Toxic Mess Remains
The East Kalimantan administration has revealed that 230 degraded coal mining concessions in the province have never been restored by the concession holders, despite their obligation to do so
Tunggadewa Mattangkilang | Jakarta Globe | March 08, 2012
Coal mining at Kaltim Prima Coal (KPC), PT. Bumi Resources in East Kalimantan. Land reclamation efforts in East Kalimantan have been hampered by the central government's reluctance to release jamrek funds. The province is now littered with toxic abandoned mines. (Photo Courtesy of PT. Bumi Resources)
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06 March 2012
Insight: Papua New Guinea mountain disaster questions Exxon
A deadly landslide in the mountains of Papua New Guinea, near where U.S. oil major Exxon Mobil is building a $15.7 billion gas project, is raising fresh questions about the global energy industry's scramble for ever harder-to-reach resources
By Rebekah Kebede | Reuters | Mar 6, 2012
01 March 2012
Mining boom accelerates land grabbing and ecosystem destruction
“This trend is now a major driver of land grabbing globally, and poses a significant threat to the world’s indigenous communities, farmers and local food production systems, as well as to precious water, forests, biodiversity, critical ecosystems and climate change.”
Ian Angus | Climate and Capitalism | March 1, 2012
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You probably don’t know it, but Réunion Island has been racked by riots about the price of gas last week. For those of you who happen not to be specialists of African geography, Réunion Island is a French département, roughly half the size of Rhode Island, located in the Ocean Indian, not far from Madagascar. It is officially a part of France, even if, of course, Frenchmen care about it only when it affects the mainland, such as when a chikungunya epidemic threatened to spill over Southern France
by Damien Perrotin | Feb 29 2012 by The View from Brittany in Energy Bulletin | Feb 29 2012
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‘Global sustainability’ wilts in South Africa’s political hot air
The latest acts in South Africa’s’s intensifying political drama include a sizzling summer-long battle between young and old within the African National Congress (ANC), the February 10 State of the Nation speech by President Jacob Zuma and the release of the ANC’s “research” on alternatives to mining nationalisation, a demand by the ANC Youth League which is now one of the main issues dividing the ruling party
By Patrick Bond | Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal | February 15, 2012
11 February 2012
Is China Reentering the Great Game?
Many countries have contributed to Afghanistan’s reconstruction. But it’s only been since 2007 that China has attracted attention with its investments. In November 2007, the Metallurgical Corporation of China (MCC) won the tender to invest over $2.9 billion to develop the Aynak copper mine, which is the second-largest copper deposit in the world
By Dong Yu | Foreign Policy in Focus | February 9, 2012
Lead kills 400 Nigerian children
400 Nigerian children dead of lead poisoning due to gold mining
Disaster News Network | February 10, 2012
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Coal mines shut as Australia evacuates flooded towns
Heavy rains shut four coal mines in eastern Australia on Friday as military helicopters evacuated stranded residents from inundated towns, and authorities warned of further flash flooding
Reuters | Feb 3, 2012
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Fracking: Anatomy of a free market failure
A recent New York Times article reported that rural landowners who had signed leases with gas and oil companies exchanging drilling rights on their property for royalty payments have discovered that they may have been misled
By Robin Hahnel | Real Climate Economics | January 12, 2012
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Thousands of people in the northwest Argentine province of La Rioja are mobilising to stop an open-cast gold mining project in the Nevados de Famatina, a snowy peak that is the semi-arid area's sole source of drinking water
By Marcela Valente | Inter-Press Service | Jan 24, 2012
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Canadian natives warn against pipeline to Pacific
Aboriginal leaders opposed to a C$5.5 billion ($5.4 billion) oil sands pipeline backed by Canada's government warned on Tuesday that the project could devastate fishing and traditional life on the rugged Pacific Coast and called for it to be stopped
By Jeffrey Jones | Reuters | Jan 10, 2012
Hereditary Chief of the Haisla First Nation, Sam Robinson (L), testifies next to Henry Amos, a band councillor, before the Enbridge's Inc's Northern Gateway pipeline Joint Review hearing in Kitamaat Village, British Columbia, January 10, 2012. Aboriginal leaders opposed to a C$5.5 billion ($5.4 billion) oil sands pipeline backed by Canada's government warned on Tuesday that the project could devastate fishing and traditional life on the rugged Pacific Coast and called for it to be stopped. Credit: Reuters/Robin Rowland
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10 January 2012
Obama bans uranium mining around Grand Canyon
The Obama administration banned new uranium mining claims around the Grand Canyon for the next 20 years, a move hailed by conservationists on Monday as key to the president's environmental legacy but slammed by opponents as a job-killer
By Deborah Zabarenko | Reuters | Jan 9, 2012
Revisiting the Deepwater Horizon Plumes
Maybe the plumes were really clouds. I am talking about the famous plumes from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the event that roiled the Gulf Coast and scrambled energy politics in mid-2010. Many readers will remember reports, first carried in this newspaper, that a considerable volume of hydrocarbons released in the spill did not reach the surface of the gulf. Instead they dissolved into deep water, forming what appeared at the time to be enormous plumes of dissolved oil and gas
By JUSTIN GILLIS | The New York Times | January 9, 2012
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ReutersOil on the surface of the Gulf of Mexico in June 2010.
03 January 2012
Protests Resume Against Peru Gold Mining Project
Demonstrators in Peru resumed their protests on Monday against plans to develop a $4.8 billion gold mine, saying they fear the mine will harm their water supplies
The Associated Press in the Street | January 2, 2012
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