Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Claudia Ciobanu BUCHAREST, Jul 16, 2010 (IPS) – Canadian company Gabriel Resources has managed to resurrect a cyanide-based gold exploitation project which had been declared illegal in courts, and is opposed by most Romanians. The gold exploitation planned by the Canadian company in Rosia Montana (Alba county, [...]
ARGENTINA: Adding More Coal to the Fire
May 10, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Marcela Valente BUENOS AIRES, May 10 (IPS) – Bucking recommendations to build up renewable energy sources, Argentina is forging ahead with a plan that will increase its dependence on coal, regarded as the most polluting fossil fuel. Next to the Río Turbio coal mine, in the southern Argentine province [...]
Africa Mulling Over an OPEC for its Minerals
May 6, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IDN Africa Mulling Over an OPEC for its Minerals Credit: Wikimedia Commons By Babukar Kashka IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis http://www.indepthnews.net/ NAIROBI (IDN) – Africa, one of the oldest inhabited continents on Earth, and the second largest with 30 million square kilometres, is home to over one billion people. It is the world’s [...]
Russia Goes Uranium Mining Around the World
March 31, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IDN By Alexandra Terentieva IDN-InDepth NewsInterview MOSCOW (IDN) – Russia’s hunger for uranium is apparently insatiable. In fact, Vadim Zhivov, the director general of ARMZ Uranium Holding Company (ARMZ), AKA Atomredmetzoloto – one of the leaders in the world uranium mining industry – fears that the country might be faced [...]
PERU: Suspension of Mining Operation Merely a Placebo
March 9, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Milagros Salazar LIMA, Mar 9 (IPS) – Although the Peruvian government reported that it had suspended the exploration activities of the Afrodita mining company in the country’s northern Amazon jungle region to avoid further protests by local indigenous people, officials took no actual steps to bring the firm’s work [...]
FINANCE: Self-Policing of Extractive Industries a ”Dismal” Failure
March 9, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Charles Fromm WASHINGTON, Mar 9 (IPS) – An international initiative that seeks to reform how governments profit from their natural resources should not reduce its existing standards of membership solely because candidate countries have been reluctant or incapable of meeting them, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Tuesday. Twenty [...]
INDIA: Stalled Korean Mining Operations Face Fresh Protests
January 21, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Keya Acharya NEW DELHI, Jan 21 (IPS) – The Indian government’s grant of the final environmental clearance to a Korean giant firm, allowing it to acquire 3,000 acres of ‘forest lands’ in the eastern state of Orissa, has prompted a fresh spate of protests from more than 4,000 families [...]
SIERRA LEONE: Mining Bill Queried
December 23, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Lansana Fofana FREETOWN, Dec 23 (IPS) – Sierra Leone’s parliament has come under serious scrutiny by opposition legislators, civil society and members of the public for ‘breaching procedures’ and ‘undermining the constitution’. It follows the passing of a Bill in parliament titled the Mines and Minerals Act 2009, which [...]
AFRICA: We Are the Government
November 6, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Jessie Boylan LAGO DISTRICT, Mozambique, Nov 6 (IPS) – As if they were going to the races, Emma Musako and Monica Mhango showed up in their finest outfits to attend a meeting on the health, social and environmental impacts of uranium mining. They came because they, like the other [...]
ZIMBABWE: Warm Words For Investors at Mines Summit
September 20, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Stanley Kwenda HARARE, Sep 19 (IPS) – Desperate for investment to lift its moribund economy, the Zimbabwe government welcomed hundreds of prospective mining investors to a conference in Harare this week. Zimbabwe has the world’s second-biggest platinum reserves after South Africa and large unexplored deposits of diamonds, coal and [...]
