BHP-Billiton

Troubled Waters: How Mine Waste Dumping is Poisoning Our Oceans, Rivers and Lakes

Mardi, février 28, 2012

Each year, mining companies dump more than 180 million tonnes of hazardous mine waste into rivers, lakes, and oceans worldwide, threatening vital bodies of water with toxic heavy metals and other chemicals poisonous to humans and wildlife, according to report released today by two leading mining reform groups.

Incomplete Reporting Still Reveals Mining Companies' Toxic Threat: Environmental groups worry some of Canada's mines are dragging feet on federal order to report toxic mining waste

Mardi, août 10, 2010

Joint news release with Ecojustice and Great Lakes United: New data released Friday in response to a lawsuit won last year by Ecojustice, on behalf of Great Lakes United and MiningWatch Canada, is beginning to shine a light on the toxic legacy of Canada's mining and tar sands industries. Unfortunately, despite a lawsuit and a government order to report pollutant releases, some facilities have failed to comply.

There Are No Clean Diamonds: What You Need to Know About Canadian Diamonds

Jeudi, décembre 7, 2006

There are no clean diamonds. Exploring for them, digging them out of the ground and selling them requires sacrifices from the natural environment, from the wildlife and fish that live on it, and from the Aboriginal people who depend on it.

We want to ensure that the public understand that Canada’s Aboriginal communities are engaged in a daily power struggle to ensure that the mines benefit their people, and to ensure that these mines do not irreversibly damage the intricate web of life on which we all depend.

Étiquettes: Canada, Congo - Democratic Republic, Victor Project, Africa, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario, Diamonds, BHP-Billiton, De Beers, Rio Tinto

Land Conflicts in El Estor, Izabal, Guatemala & the Rights of the Maya Q'eqchi' People

Dimanche, novembre 19, 2006

Summary:

In the municipal jurisdiction of El Estor in northeastern Guatemala, Maya Q'eqchi' communities represent more than 90% of the population. They are scattered over an area of nearly 3,000 km² in more than 100 villages as well as the town of El Estor, totaling over 35,000 persons.

Étiquettes: Guatemala, BHP-Billiton, HudBay Minerals, Skye, Vale (incl. Inco)

New Book: "Reverse Anthropology: Indigenous Analysis of Social and Environmental Relations in New Guinea"

Mardi, octobre 24, 2006

by Stuart Kirsch
Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2006
cloth $55.00, paperback $21.95
see http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?book_id=5341%5342 for ordering details

Étiquettes: Ok Tedi Mine - BHP-Billiton/Inmet, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, BHP-Billiton, Newsletter 23: Summer/Autumn 2006, Inmet

BHP-Billiton Recognizes Diamond Workers

Mercredi, juillet 19, 2006

Submitted by Alternatives North.

What is BHP-Billiton so afraid of? That’s the question Mining Watch’s Joan Kuyek asked recently in Yellowknife, NWT, while speaking about the strike at the Australian mining giant’s Ekati diamond mine, 300 kilometres north of the city.

Étiquettes: Northwest Territories, Diamonds, BHP-Billiton, Newsletter 22: Spring 2006, Labour

Urgent Action: Mining companies to end support for community-based laboratory analysis of uranium tailings in the Serpent River

Mercredi, février 22, 2006

Rio Algom, a subsidiary of BHP-Billiton, and Denison Mines Limited have awarded a contract for laboratory analytical work to monitor 14 decommissioned uranium mines and 130 million tonnes of residual radioactive tailings in the Serpent River basin area to a large commercial laboratory in Peterborough, Ontario.

Étiquettes: Ontario, BHP-Billiton, Denison, Uranium

Save Indonesia's Protected Forest Areas from Mining

Mercredi, septembre 14, 2005

Deforestation in Indonesia has reached 2.4 million hectares (1.2%) per year or approximately 10 acres of rainforest a minute. Mining multinational companies and foreign governments are lobbying the Indonesian government to open up protected forest areas, national parks and other protected areas for mining while local communities and environmental justice groups are ...

Étiquettes: Sulawesi, Indonesia, Barrick Gold, BHP-Billiton, Newmont, Placer Dome, Rio Tinto

The winners of the 2003 Dirty Digger Awards have been decided

Mercredi, décembre 3, 2003

The winners of the 2003 Dirty Digger Awards have been decided. The awards are being made to coincide with the Mining Journal's 'Outstanding Achievement' Awards, to be presented at the Mines and Money Congress on 3rd December 2003.