The mining industry is starting to split on who bears responsibility for all the carbon emissions caused by smelting iron-ore into steel.
The debate came to the forefront this week after BHP Group’s chief said miners need to tackle their role in globa…
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There has been significant debate among stakeholders regarding the extent to which mining companies should be held accountable for mine closure, including ways of generating funds for this purpose, to ensure that the State does not carry the cost for m…
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As India readies for the United Nations to give a green light to deep sea mining and boost its economy, the environmental group Greenpeace said on Wednesday that drilling the seabed could cause irreversible harm and worsen climate change.
Without prop…
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Mining major BHP and Japan’s Mitsubishi Development have inked a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to jointly pursue emissions reductions.
BHP CEO Andrew Mackenzie on Thursday said that the MoU marked the start of an important collaboration with one o…
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The Western Australian Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) has approved a 3.3 km buried steel pipeline within the Dampier to Bunbury gas pipeline corridor to connect the Pluto liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant and Karratha gas plant.
The approval…
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Argentina’s Supreme Court on Tuesday shot down a challenge to an environmental law banning mining in glacial areas that had been brought by Canadian miner Barrick Gold.
"The challenge posed by Barrick is ruled inadmissible," according to the r…
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The Queensland Department of Environment and Science has approved the black-throated finch management plan for the Carmichael project, Indian major Adani reported on Friday.
The miner said that the management plan was found to comply with the strict r…
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Managing the world’s largest rainforest is a Brazilian affair and foreigners should stop meddling in the Amazon, President Jair Bolsonaro’s top security adviser said in an interview.
"I don’t accept this idea that the Amazon is world heritage, thi…
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Sand mining is eroding the world’s river deltas and coastlines, damaging the environment and hurting livelihoods from Cambodia to Colombia, as government regulation fails to keep pace with rising demand, the United Nations warned on Tuesday.
Global de…
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Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Friday the country could open a vast reserve in the Amazon rainforest to mining, a move that his predecessor attempted before backtracking due to an international outcry by environmentalists.
The National Res…
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