TANZANIA: PRESIDENT SAMIA ORDERS BOT TO BUY REFINED GOLD

DEOGRATIUS KAMAGI 14/06/2021 PRESIDENT Samia Suluhu Hassan has instructed the Bank of Tanzania (BoT) to start buying the refined Gold to … More

Peru Elections: The people does not want ‘more money’

Published by MAC on 2021-06-14Source: Aljazeera, Mercopress, Cooperacción (2021-06-14) “Canon for the people” was the subject of an intense right … More

USA: Family sues battery recycler Gopher Resource

Published by MAC on 2021-06-11Source: Tampa Bay Times (2021-06-11) Over son’s exposure to lead. Gopher Resource operates as a recycling … More

Centerra Gold: The Ugly Face of Canadian Capitalism

9 June 2021, 9.21pm EDT The Canadian mining company’s many environmental and social offences represent a flagrant breach of the … More

USA: The fight to clean up Exide battery plant in California

Published by MAC on 2021-06-09Source: LA TACO, CNS, The Guardian, ABC7.com (2021-06-07) A judge approved Exide’s bankruptcy settlement allowing the … More

India: Amara Raja battery plants ordered to shut down over pollution charges

Published by MAC on 2021-06-08Source: Reuters, The Hindu, Bestmag, Batteries Internation (2021-06-07) ‘Gotta be a better way’. Some of the … More

Former Western Australia Aboriginal Affairs minister joins Rio Tinto

Published by MAC on 2021-06-07Source: The Guardian (2021-06-05) Is there anything left that Rio Tinto can do? Ben Wyatt, a … More

Human Rights Advocates and Legal Experts Deliver Blueprint for New International Corporate Accountability Law in Canada

NEWS RELEASE 31 May 2021, 6.36pm EDT (Ottawa) Today, the Canadian Network on Corporate Accountability (CNCA) released draft model legislation that provides … More

Cominak uranium mine closes in Niger

Published by MAC on 2021-05-31Source: Afrik21 (2021-05-30) The risk of radioactive pollution in one of Africa’s largest uranium mines. Akouta … More

South Africa: RBM mining executive gunned down in KwaZulu-Natal

Published by MAC on 2021-05-30Source: ECR, TimesLIVE (2021-05-30) Richards Bay Minerals has confirmed its general manager of operations has been … More