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The deadly riots that broke out earlier this month in the French territory of New Caledonia are pushing up the price of nickel, a key metal needed to transition off fossil fuels that has gotten more expensive as global conflicts affect the market.
At his house in Mulgao village in North Goa’s Bicholim taluka, Madan Kauthankar, a former electrician at a mine, is switching channels on the television. About a kilometre away, several trucks traverse a dusty road adjacent to a lake, leading to a newly operational mine atop a hillock.
President Joe Biden’s administration on Friday safeguarded millions of acres in Alaska from fossil fuel drilling and mining — the latest in a frenzy of environmental actions in recent weeks that have drawn praise from green groups and condemnation from industry and Republican lawmakers.
The Department of Interior is set to announce a ruling that would effectively halt a major mining development in Alaska over concerns that dozens of local tribes will be disrupted by the project.
Documents released under Alberta Freedom of Information laws confirm the United Conservative Party government was talking with the coal industry about relaxing a policy that protected the Rocky Mountains from open-pit mines long before making those plans public.
Federal prosecutors on Tuesday sued to seize two New York City apartments worth $14 million that were allegedly bought with proceeds from a corrupt scheme involving Mongolia's huge copper mine, a former prime minister of that nation, and his Harvard Business School graduate son. The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn details a total of $128 million in allegedly unlawful contracts granted by a Mongolian state-owned mining company to shell companies, which benefited then Prime Minister Sukhbaatar Batbold and his family, including his oldest son. "During Batbold's tenure as Prime Minister, Erdenet Mining Corporation inserted a middleman with ties to Batbold into the relationship with [the commodity trading firm] Ocean Partners, allowing Batbold to siphon off millions of dollars for his personal use and benefit, which included the purchase of the" luxury apartments in Manhattan, the suit alleges. Batbold served as prime minister from 2009
Former Karnataka minister G Janardhan Reddy, 57, who is accused in nine CBI cases linked to illegal mining from the 2008-2013 period — when the BJP was in power in the state — made a return to the party on Monday by merging his Kalyana Rajya Pragathi Paksha party with the BJP ahead of the Lok Sabha polls.
Former Karnataka Minister and mining baron G Janardhana Reddy on Monday rejoined the BJP ahead of the .