Natural Resources |
It is a mark of modern civilization that we now buy and sell what nature provides for free. Trees, water, minerals, open land - these are profit opportunities for those who can turn them into timber, dams, bottled water, diamond rings, or condominium complexes. For issues directly relating to oil, gas, and coal, see also Energy. |
News Articles
| INDIA: Camera Obscura and the manufacture of happiness by Aman Sethi & Priscilla Jebaraj, The Hindu March 6th, 2012 An advertisement flooding airwaves across India would have you believe that a company called Vedanta is a creating a product called happiness. But London-based Vedanta Resources has attracted the ire of environmental activists and human rights groups like Amnesty International who have accused the company of exploiting indigenous communities — such as the Dongria Kondhs of Niyamgiri in Odisha — without due process. |
| LIBERIA: Land deals with foreign firms 'could sow seeds of conflict' by Tamasin Ford, The Guardian (UK) March 2nd, 2012 Land deals with foreign firms in Liberia 'could sow seeds of conflict'says a new report from the Centre for International Conflict Resolution (CICR) at Columbia University in New York. The report covers Golden Veroleum, Sime Darby, ArcelorMittal and Putu Iron Ore Mining Corporation. |
| ARCTIC: Shell Launches Preemptive Legal Strike For Ocean Drilling by Kim Murphy, Los Angeles Times February 29th, 2012 Royal Dutch Shell launched an extraordinary preemptive legal strike Wednesday against opponents of offshore oil drilling in the Arctic Ocean, filing suit against more than a dozen environmental organizations likely to challenge its plan for drilling exploratory wells in the Chukchi Sea this summer. |
| U.S.: TransCanada Pipeline Foes See U.S. Bias in E-Mails by Elisabeth Rosenthal, New York Times October 3rd, 2011 E-mails obtained by Friends of the Earth paint a picture of a collaborative relationship between lobbyists for TransCanada and the U.S. State department, the agency that has final say over a 1,661 mile pipeline that will transport tar sands crude from Alberta to Texas. Embassy officials in Ottawa procured invitations to Fourth of July parties for TransCanada officials and shared information with the company about Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s meetings. |
| GLOBAL: Revealed: Secret world of global oil and mining giants by Nick Mathiason, The Bureau of Investigative Journalism September 19th, 2011 Ten of the world’s most powerful oil, gas and mining companies own a staggering 6,038 subsidiaries with over a third located in ‘secrecy jurisdictions’. |