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Mar 06 2011 15:25
Johannes Myburgh
Johannesburg – The apparent mismanagement at the BHP Billiton [JSE:BIL] Mozal plant in Matola, 17km outside Maputo, has led to inspection visits by three international complaints directorates. Read the rest of this entry »
IPS News
By Badylon K. Bakiman
KIKWIT, DR Congo, Feb 24, 2011 (IPS) – While discussion of hydroelectric power on the Congo River is dominated by the massive Grand Inga project and the dream of power for the entire continent, construction of a series of smaller dams to benefit local communities may produce tangible results much more quickly. Read the rest of this entry »
Will BHP Billiton finally take responsibility for their poor safety record in Australia? Read the rest of this entry »
Today WikiLeaks exposed how BHP Billiton’s CEO, Marius Kloppers, sabotaged Rio Tinto’s deal with China. Read the rest of this entry »
Tim Webb
Guardian
31 January 2011
A mining company in Peru part-owned by a British FTSE 100 company agitated for the removal of teachers and Catholic bishops to new posts away from “conflictive mining communities”, according to a leaked US cable obtained via WikiLeaks.
An executive of the company, in which BHP Billiton has a one-third stake, urged diplomats to persuade the Peruvian government and church to “rotate” such professionals out of sensitive areas, the secret document said. Read the rest of this entry »
The Dharawal is a wild area of swamps and streams forming the pristine headwaters of the Georges River, just at the southern and south western edge of Sydney in New South Wales, Australia. It is habitat to endangered and vulnerable species and has many significant and hidden aboriginal sites. Read the rest of this entry »
International Rivers Press Release
16 December 2010
International civil society groups have called on BHP Billiton to halt its plans for a US$5 billion aluminum smelter and the associated $3.5 billion Inga 3 hydropower scheme in Democratic Republic of Congo, one of the world’s most corrupt and under-developed countries. The proposed smelter would consume 2,500 MW of electricity, more than DR Congo’s entire current power supply. Read the rest of this entry »
On Sunday 28th November 2010 over 1500 people gathered in Perth in Western Australia to support the protection of the Kimberley Region in Western Australia from massive polluting industrialization being pushed by corporate oil and gas giants, BHP Billiton, Woodside Petroleum, Chevron, BP and Shell.
More info here:
http://www.savethekimberley.com
Koori Mail
01-Dec-2010
http://bhpbillitonwatch.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/koori-bhp-1-12-10.pdf
PROTESTERS outside BHP Billiton’s annual general meeting in Perth have slammed the resource giant’s uranium mining plans in Australia.
Conservation groups, unions and Aboriginal traditional owner groups voiced their environmental concerns at the Perth Convention and Exhibition centre on 16 November. They raised particular concerns about BHP proposed uranium mine at Yeelirrie in Western Australia’s Goldfields region. Conservation Council of WA director Piers Verstegen said BHP had been acting behind the scenes to -prevent’ a public inquiry from going ahead into uranium mining in WA. Read the rest of this entry »
Radio Australia, Pacific Beat Home
November 17, 2010 18:19:08
Across the Pacific region managing the development of major mining projects usually involves dealing with the concerns and grievances of traditional landowners.
In Papua New Guinea’s Madang Province, landowners have been fighting to stop the Ramu Nickel Mine over fears it will dump mine waste into the sea and ruin their environment. Read the rest of this entry »
