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photo credit: Bálint Fejér, via Creative Commons On January 30, 2000, a toxic chemical spill destroyed wildlife, devastated fish stocks and threatened the water supplies of nearly 2.5 million people in central Eastern Europe. Romania’s Somes River, Hungary’s Tisza River and Yugoslavia’s Danube River, which is Europe’s largest waterway, were each catastrophically polluted. The toxic [...] Photo credit: Matthew Burpee At the junction of the Mantaro and Yauli rivers in Peru, over 12,000 feet up in the Andes, is a small city of about 35,000 people. It is a community built on the mineral wealth of the mountains and exists only to serve the mines and the smelting company that processes [...] With the enthusiastic complicity of the State and the participation of Canadian, US, British and South African transnational mining companies, Venezuela is seeing the execution of a project promoting the immediate exploitation of a rich gold reserve which, according to its promoters and beneficiaries, will turn out to be the discovery of the famous El [...] Last April, the Navajo Nation Council voted 63-19 to ban uranium mining on Navajo land. The vote was in response to efforts by Hydro Resources, Inc., (HRI) to get a license to re-initiate uranium mining in Indian country using a technique called “in situ” mining. Proponents say it’s safer than any other method of uranium [...] Coal mining has long been considered one of the most dangerous professions. That’s because when methane, which is released during the coal mining process, comes into contact with coal dust, it becomes highly combustible. In the old days, coal miners used canaries to let them know when a blast was imminent. It was a simple [...] |
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