Mongolia will hold a reality television style text message referendum on the future of Rio Tinto's troubled Oyu Tolgoi copper mine project, the Financial Times reports. The FT says Mongolian prime minister Saikhanbileg Chimed will ask voters whether their country should develop more of its mineral resources or resort to austerity to support the faltering […]
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Glencore: The great white shark stalking Rio Tinto
October 7, 2014
The world's business media are paying rapt attention to Glencore’s now stalled attempt to take over Rio Tinto. Late Tuesday, the company issued a news release which says Glencore announces that in July 2014 it made an informal enquiry by telephone call to Rio Tinto, seeking to gauge whether there might be any interest at Rio […]
The US based Natural Resources Defence Counsel environmental group, a major opponent of both the Keystone XL and Northern Gateway pipeline projects, is praising Rio Tinto for divesting its interests in the controversial Alaska Pebble Mine project. The NRDC is, in fact, so pleased, with Rio Tinto that they took out an expensive full page […]
The BBC, reporting from the Ocean Sciences Meeting in Salt Lake City, says Norwegian scientists are becoming concerned about dumping huge amounts of tailings in the country's fjords. Reporter Jonathan Amos in Scrutiny for Norwegian fjord rock disposal says for decades some Norwegian mining companies have been using pipes at 23 sites to dump tailings as […]
Sacred Headwaters book slated for October release
June 20, 2011
Last summer, members of the International League of Conservation Photographers visited the northwest of British Columbia in what they call a RAVE (Rapid Assessment Visual Expedition). One RAVE involved photographing areas which ILCP members feel may be threatened by the construction of the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline and the increased number of supertankers plying the […]