BHP-Billiton

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

Canada, Metal Mining Effluent Regulations, Water, British Columbia, Ok Tedi Mine - BHP-Billiton/Inmet, Manitoba, Porgera Mine - Barrick, Indonesia, Newfoundland & Labrador, Waste Rock and Tailings, Northwest Territories, Reforming Mining Laws and Policies, Papua New Guinea, Ontario, Québec, Saskatchewan, Environment, Barrick Gold, BHP-Billiton, Cliffs, Submarine/Subaqueous Tailings Disposal, Water and fisheries, Goldcorp, Iron Ore Company of Canada, Labrador Iron Mines, Newmont, Northern Dynasty, Placer Dome, Rio Tinto Alcan, Rio Tinto, Taseko, Teck, Vale (incl. Inco), Xstrata (Falconbridge/Noranda)
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
Tuesday, August 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.

Alberta, Canada, LAB Chrysotile, Labrador, Water, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland & Labrador, Northwest Territories, Areva/Cogema, Ontario, Québec, Saskatchewan, Barrick Gold, BHP-Billiton, Breakwater Resources, Cameco, Cliffs, Crew, De Beers, Toxics/National Pollutant Release Inventory, Goldcorp, HudBay Minerals, IAMGOLD, Imperial Metals, Inmet, Iron Ore Company of Canada, LAB Chrysotile, Newmont, Northgate, Rio Tinto, Teck, Vale (incl. Inco), Xstrata (Falconbridge/Noranda)
There Are No Clean Diamonds: What You Need to Know About Canadian Diamonds
Thursday, December 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.

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
Sunday, November 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.

Guatemala, BHP-Billiton, HudBay Minerals, Skye, Vale (incl. Inco)
New Book: "Reverse Anthropology: Indigenous Analysis of Social and Environmental Relations in New Guinea"
Tuesday, October 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

Ok Tedi Mine - BHP-Billiton/Inmet, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, BHP-Billiton, Newsletter 23: Summer/Autumn 2006, Inmet
BHP-Billiton Recognizes Diamond Workers
Wednesday, July 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.

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
Wednesday, February 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.

Ontario, BHP-Billiton, Denison, Uranium
Save Indonesia's Protected Forest Areas from Mining
Wednesday, September 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 ...
Sulawesi, Indonesia, Barrick Gold, BHP-Billiton, Newmont, Placer Dome, Rio Tinto
The winners of the 2003 Dirty Digger Awards have been decided
Wednesday, December 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.

Corporate Accountability, Indonesia, Russia, Tanzania, Corporate Social Responsibility, Barrick Gold, BHP-Billiton, Newmont, Placer Dome, Rio Tinto, TVI Pacific
Landmark 'no-go' pledge from leading mining companies
Wednesday, August 20, 2003

International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) announcement:

Corporate Accountability, AngloGold Ashanti, Reforming Mining Laws and Policies, Corporate Social Responsibility, Environmental Planning, Barrick Gold, BHP-Billiton, Newmont, Noranda/Falconbridge, Placer Dome, Rio Tinto

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