CASE STUDY: FIRST NATIONS MORATORIUM ON MINING AND THE ‘RING OF FIRE’, ONTARIO
A large area in Ontario, Canada known as the ‘Ring of Fire’ is currently vulnerable to new mining operations from Australian companies.
CASE STUDY: BHP POLLUTES INDIGENOUS LANDS FOR FUTURE BATTERY ENERGY
CASE STUDY: BHP POLLUTES INDIGENOUS LANDS FOR FUTURE BATTERY ENERGY BHP’s Mt Keith nickel operation – open pit mine and 5-km wide tailings lake. Image: Conservation Council Western Australia BHP pollutes Indigenous lands for future battery energy BHP is one of...
NICKEL COMMUNIQUÉ: From the ‘Devil’s Metal’ to the ‘Holy Grail’ of Clean Transport
Nickel is rapidly emerging as a ‘critical’ metal for the shift toward electric vehicles (EVs) and battery energy storage.
RIO TINTO, CIVIL WAR AND HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES
The Panguna mine in Bougainville that operated from 1971 to 1989 left a decade of civil war in its entrails, environmental destruction and social upheaval.
THE FRIEDA-RIVER COPPER GOLD PROJECT, PAPUA NEW GUINEA
As a part of a mega energy-infrastructure project, a large-scale open pit copper mine has been proposed by Pan Aust, a Chinese owned company listed in Australia, on a culturally and ecologically significant river region in Sepik in Papua New Guinea.
OCEANAGOLD, PHILIPPINES
Australian-Canadian OceanaGold has received international attention for grave human rights and environmental concerns throughout the life its Dipidio copper-gold mine.