India: high court rules coal mining licenses illegal
Text India's Supreme Court ruled that all coal mining licenses awarded between 1993 and 2010 are illegal, citing corruption in the approval process. Over 200 licenses may be cancelled.The Supreme...
View ArticlePeru: deadly repression of pipeline protests
Text A 16-year-old protester was shot dead by National Police troops at Santa Teresa village in Cuzco region, during a protest against construction of a gas pipeline through local lands.The UN...
View ArticleAfghan mining law to 'strengthen armed groups'?
Text Afghanistan's new mining law is intended to boost foreign investment, but critics charge lack of transparency will allow mafias and armed gangs to control the nascent industry.A new law designed...
View ArticleMexico: Cananea toxic spills continue
Text Long favored by the Mexican government, Grupo México is becoming a major embarrassment as its biggest mine persists in polluting the Sonora River.The State Civil Protection Unit (UEPC) of the...
View ArticleHonduras: mine opponents report new threats
Text The two mine workers who killed three protesters last year are still free, and the government continues to ignore an OAS order to provide protection for mine opponents.Members of Honduras'...
View ArticlePeru: Newmont behind water authority shake-up?
Text Activists charge that a regional director of Peru's Water Authority was sacked for refusing to approve "relocation" of a mountain lake in preparation for the Conga mega-mine.US-based Newmont...
View ArticleCoup for Delhi in Sino-Indian space race
Text India's Mars orbiter arrives at the red planet just days after NASA's latest probe. These missions are less about "science" than geopolitics on Earth—the New Cold War with China.Bloomberg'a...
View ArticleProtest Ollanta Humala in New York City
Text Peru's President Ollanta Humala will be honored by the free-trade-boosting Americas Society on Thursday night. New York activists will be there to protest.On Thursday Sept. 25, Peru's President...
View ArticlePeru: populist governor re-elected from prison
Text Gregorio Santos, the populist president of Peru's Cajamarca region, was comfortably re-elected—despite being imprisoned as corruption charges are pending against him.Gregorio Santos, the populist...
View ArticleBolivia: Evo wins —amid indigenous protests
Text Evo Morales handily won a third term as Bolivia's president—as indigenous leaders launched protests to demand a greater role in the new decentralization policy.Exit polls show incumbent populist...
View ArticlePeru: unrest mounts in Cajamarca
Text Police clashed with protesters in Peru's northern city of Cajamarca during a demonstration over the police slaying of a barrio resident—one of several social conflicts across the region.A mass...
View ArticleNDAA provision would allow mining on Apache land
Text Lawmakers have slipped a provision into the new National Defense Authorization Act that would allow a massive copper mine on public lands that are sacred to the Apache.Lawmakers have slipped a...
View ArticleAndes: repression ahead of Lima climate summit
Text The slaying of an indigenous leader who planned to travel from Ecuador to denounce a mining project before the Lima climate summit is the latest attack on regional ecological defenders.On Dec. 3,...
View ArticlePeru: campesino family scores win against mine
Text In a reversal for Peru's Yanacocha Mining, a campesino family convicted of "land usurpation" against the company had their sentence overturned on appeal.In a reversal for Peru's Yanacocha mining...
View ArticleChile: court rejects new Pascua Lama appeal
Text Barrick Gold's problems with its giant mine high in the Andes show no signs of going away. Local activists are pushing to have Chile's government revoke the mine's permit.The Toronto-based...
View ArticleHaiti: deal fails, Martelly rules by decree
Text Haiti's political class once again failed to end its paralysis, and now the country lacks a legislature. The "international community" seems OK with the situation.Haiti entered a long-threatened...
View ArticleMineral struggle in new Kosova violence
Text Street-fighting in Kosova's capital Pristina was portrayed as more Serb-Albanian "ethnic hatred," but it came as workers occuiped the Trepca mining complex to resist privatization.Police in...
View ArticleColombia: protests against illegal mining in Cauca
Text Hundreds of indigenous and Afro-Colombian protesters in Colombia's Cauca region marched cross-country against illegal gold mining—despite paramilitary threats.Hundreds of indigenous and...
View ArticleInformal miners strike in Colombia
Text Small-scale gold and emerald miners in Colombia launched a strike, blocking roads at several points across the central department of Antioquia to protest raids on their operations.Small-scale...
View ArticlePeru: mine project suspended after deadly protests
Text Southern Copper Corp announced a 60-day halt in its huge Tia Maria project in southern Peru following seven weeks of escalating protests in which three have been killed.Grupo Mexico's Southern...
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