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Government criticises mining company’s treatment of local tribe (Mail and Guardian Online)

The British government openly criticised mining company Vedanta Resources today over its treatment of local tribes in a sacred mountain area of India where it plans to open a bauxite mine. In an unprecedented attack on a FTSE 100 company, the government ruled that Vedanta...

12 October, 2009

Russian Arctic tribe at risk from Yamal gas projects (Reuters)

The Nenets tribespeople of Russia's frozen Yamal peninsula have survived the age of the Tsars, the Bolshevik revolution and the chaotic 1990s, but now confront their biggest challenge -- under their fur-bundled feet is enough gas to heat the world for five years. "For them...

06 October, 2009

Kimberley split over LNG (The Australian)

To the rock stars and fly-in fly-out personalities, it's the latest cause celebre, but to Anthony Watson and his mother Agnes Albert, the battle over a proposed gas plant in the Kimberley goes much deeper. With family ties that stretch from the Jarlmadangah desert community...

03 October, 2009