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/ENVIRONMENT BULLETIN 1/ CANADA: Canadian-Backed Mines Earning a Reputation in Third World for Destroying Environment
Two environmental disasters in less than a year have blackened the record of Canadian-backed mines in developing countries.ENVIRONMENT: Canadian-Backed Mines Receive ‘Major Black Eye’
Two environmental disasters in less than a year have blackened the record of Canadian-backed mines in developing countries.HEALTH-ENVIRONMENT: Chemical Thugs Blamed for Reduced Sperm Count
Tens of thousands of synthetic chemicals may be reducing the human sperm count and destroying the health of hundreds of animal species, asserts a new book published by Penguin./ENVIRONMENT BULLETIN 7/ INDONESIA: Riots Shut Down World’s Largest Gold Mine
Riots have broken out among protesting indigenous people in a mining town in Irian Jaya, the easternmost island of Indonesia, injuring more than a dozen people and forcing the U.S. operators of the world's largest gold mine to temporarily halt operations.AMERICAS: Oil and Gas Industry Gears up for Latin America Bonanza /REPEAT/
U.S.-based oil and gas companies are eagerly watching progress on a natural gas pipeline that is to run from Argentina, across the Andes, to Chile.ENVIRONMENT: Dallas Oil company Denounced for Damage in Ecuador
The chief executive of a Dallas-based oil company had just addressed an Inter-American Petroleum and Gas Conference here, when environment activists handed him a bouquet of roses./DEVELOPMENT BULLETIN 1/ LATIN AMERICA: Governments Woo Oil, Gas Companies to Drill for ‘Black Gold’
Government officials from Europe, Japan, and the United States are courting oil and natural gas companies as never before, promising to provide the private sector with loads of money to drill for 'black gold' in Latin America.LATIN AMERICA: Governments Woo Oil, Gas Companies /REPEAT/
Government officials from Europe, Japan, and the United States are courting oil and natural gas companies as never before, promising to provide the private sector with loads of money to drill for 'black gold' in Latin America.LATIN AMERICA: Governments Woo Oil, Gas Companies
Government officials from Europe, Japan, and the United States are courting oil and natural gas companies as never before, promising to provide the private sector with loads of money to drill for 'black gold' in Latin America.AMERICAS: Native Peoples Left Out of Big Oil and Gas Parley
A major meeting that has brought together energy ministry officials and oil and natural gas companies from the western hemisphere is focussing on ways to raise capital for energy development in the Americas, but one key issue is getting little or no attention./RELIGIOUS BULLETIN 5/ PHILIPPINES: Indigenous Souls Attracted By Pot of Gold Despite Pastor’s Warning
An Australian mining company is under fire from community activists who say the multi- national concern is taking advantage of indigenous people living on the resource-rich Philippine island province of Mindanao.PHILIPPINES: Local Miners ‘Sold Out’ to Foreigners, Say Activists
Makeshift houses with blue plastic sheet-covered roofs, brown gashes in the deep green forests of the surrounding hillsides and a constant low rumbling sound, set this sprawling settlement in the southern island of Mindanao apart from most others in the Philippines.INDIA-ENVIRONMENT: AsDB Ready to Lend, But Not For Narmada Dam
The Asian Development Bank (AsDB) plans to lend money to the Indian state where the much publicised Sardar Sarovar dam on the Narmada river is located, but bank officials insist the earmarked funds will not help to finance the project.PHILIPPINES: Local Miners ‘Sold Out’ to Foreigners, Say Activists
Makeshift houses with blue plastic sheet-covered roofs, brown gashes in the deep green forests of the surrounding hillsides and a constant low rumbling sound, set this sprawling settlement in the southern island of Mindanao apart from most others in the Philippines.PHILIPPINES: Indigenous People Occupy Dole Pineapple Plantation
Hundreds of B'laan indigenous people are occupying a Dole pineapple plantation in the southern Philippines in an effort to regain community rights over the land.INDONESIA-IRIAN JAYA: Catholic and Protestant missionaries acting as go-betweens for government and rebel talks
Helicopter engines daily roar over the dense rainforest in the central highlands of this rugged region as crack Indonesian commandos search for a group of guerrillas who have held 13 hostages for four weeks now.INDONESIA: Logging Threat Looms Over Birds’ Paradise
High up in the alpine forests on the island of New Guinea in the South Pacific, a group of black and white kangaroos live in trees -- a different scene to that in Australia, where the mammals are at home on the ground.INDONESIA-HEALTH: A Copper Mine of Death, Or Misplaced Blame?
Agnes Amai died three weeks ago in the settlement of Koperapoka, just outside this mining town. Her brothers say that abscesses developed on her face and armpits a day or two before she collapsed.INDONESIA-ENVIRONMENT: Logging Threat Looms Over Birds’ Paradise
High up in the alpine forests on the island of New Guinea in the South Pacific, a group of black and white kangaroos live in trees -- a different scene to that in Australia, where the mammals are at home on the ground.INDONESIA-IRIAN JAYA: Hostage Crisis And Separatist Fight Drag On
Helicopter engines daily roar over the dense rainforest in the central highlands of this rugged region as crack Indonesian commandos search for a group of guerrillas who have held 13 hostages for four weeks now.INDONESIA: Irian Jaya Hostage Crisis Continues
The fate of 14 people held hostage in Irian Jaya by guerrillas from the 'Free Papua Movement' (OPM), remained unclear Monday amid reports of an Indonesian troop build- up in the province.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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