NEWS & EVENTS
RIO TINTO SUSPENDS PROPOSED LITHIUM MINE IN SERBIA AFTER PROTESTS
Rio Tinto has suspended plans to build Europe’s largest lithium mine after sustained protests across the country in opposition to the project.
COPPER COMMUNIQUÉ: In the race to net zero, ‘Copper is the new oil’ – but at what cost?
Copper, according to Goldman Sachs, ‘is the new oil’ deemed most important for decarbonisation. Demand for the metal, used in large quantities in wind, solar, electric vehicles and energy infrastructure, is set to increase by 600% by 2030. Wealthy nations and companies associated with copper related products are by proportion the highest consumers of the metal, and so are generating most of the demand.
RIO TINTO LITHIUM MINE: THOUSANDS OF PROTESTERS BLOCK ROADS ACROSS SERBIA
Thousands of demonstrators blocked major roads across Serbia as anger swelled over government-backed plan to allow mining company Rio Tinto to extract lithium.
拒绝位于马来西亚彭亨州关丹县双溪卡浪副县格宾莱纳斯稀土辐射废料的永久储存槽(PDF)
如果我们想改善我们的国家, 那么现在就必须采取行动. 和我們一起反对莱纳斯在Gebeng的泥炭沼泽中建造世界上最大的放射性废物堆放场的最新提议吧。 澳大利亚非政府组织Aid/Watch 已启动在线提呈拒绝 Lynas 的永久储存槽(PDF)， 以方便工公众能够提交，向环境部门发送抗议。 这是我们提呈的中文翻译 . 解释为什么我们希望环境部门拒绝莱纳斯的提议 . 请填上您的姓名、居住国家/地区以及电子邮件地址 然后向下滚动，直到看到“Submit...
Reject Lynas Rare Earths Radioactive Waste Unsafe Permanent Disposal Facility (PDF)
Malaysians should not be left to face the danger, health and environmental risk and hazards; and the long-term inconvenience and costs of housing a mega radioactive waste dump of toxic materials brought in by Australian Rare Earth miner Lynas.
Community Struggling To Access Water And Basic Needs Years After Eviction
New research has found that a community in Port Moresby who were forcibly evicted and their homes demolished without compensation at the behest of a company with significant Australian ties, are still struggling to access basic needs and rights, even years after their eviction.
WEBINAR: Frontline Responses to Australia’s Green Extractivism
Held on Monday 8 November 2021 Australian mining companies are investing all over the world in critical minerals such as copper, lithium and rare earth metals in order to cash in on profits to be made from the race to “net zero”. This land grab is being...
Aid Talks Webinar: RE-IMAGINING AID
This Aid Talks webinar seeks to examine why aid must be decolonised and the long overdue need for honest reflection, acknowledgement, and remedy for colonisation across all facets of modern life, including within the aid sector.
Is Australian Lithium the answer to Zero Emissions?
Australian groups have joined a global network of communities directly impacted by lithium mining, who are warning against drastically expanding mining in the name of ‘Green Energy’.
Lina Cabarero – an inspiration to us all!
Tribute to a passing friend who inspired us all
Re-imaging Australian Aid & Development
Register and Join the Aid/Watch AGM on Monday July 19 from 6 PM via zoom AID/WATCH 2021 AGM Monday 19 July, 6:00PM AEST via Zoom We invite you to the 2021 AID/WATCH AGM. Join us to hear what we have been up to and presentations from our partners Projects Sepik (PNG),...
Expert Report Submissions on Lynas PDF
EXPERT REPORT SUBMISSIONS ON LYNAS EIS March 2021 that was rejectedSubmission of objection of EIA for Lynas PDFSubmission of objection to Bukit Ketam PDF ConstructionSubmission of objection to Bukit Ketam PSubmission of concern Radioactive Waste Clarification...
MEDIA RELEASE: Cormann’s OECD appointment is bad news for aid effectiveness
Australia’s role as America’s pawn has been highlighted in a recent blow to the effectiveness of Australian aid with the appointment of Mathias Cormann as the Secretary General of the OECD. Mr Cormann’s well documented track record on climate change is in stark...
REJECT LYNAS RARE EARTHS RADIOACTIVE WASTE PERMANENT DISPOSAL FACILITY IN KUANTAN, MALAYSIA
Send a submission to the Jabatan Alam Sekitar (Department of Environment) Malaysia calling for the rejection of the environmental impact assessment (EIA) submitted by Lynas Rare Earths
MINING & COVID 19
Aid/Watch joined over 300+ organisations globally in contributing and signing on to the ‘Global Solidarity with Communities, Indigenous Peoples and Workers at Risk from Mining Pandemic Profiteers’ statement
JOINT LETTER: Global Social Protection Fund needed to provide basic services for all working people
A Joint Letter to Minister for Foreign Affairs, Senator Marise Payne calling for a Global Social Protection Fund
Lynas or lies?
“Simply put, Lynas has never had a social licence to operate – this would never be allowed here in Australia.”
NGOs Ask Australia to Suspend Lynas’ Rare Earth Export to its Malaysian Plant
Friends of the Earth Australia, AID/WATCH, together with Australian chapters of Malaysian BERSIH Coalition for Clean and Fair Elections and Saya Anak Bangsa Malaysia Melbourne (SABMOZ) have responded to a petition that has gained momentum in Malaysia demanding that Australia suspends Lynas’ rare earth export to Malaysia because Lynas has no safe disposal facility for its radioactive waste.