Mining
Lawyers warned against using AI in legal casework – as it happened
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Caitlin Cassidy and Rafqa Touma (earlier)
06, Dec, 2024 @6:32 AM
How can News Corp call its gas splash an ‘exclusive’ and a ‘special report’ when it’s paid for by industry? | Adam Morton
Readers led to believe a short-on-facts advertorial exhorting government to let companies extract more gas is straight news coverage
Adam Morton
02, Dec, 2024 @2:00 PM
Norway forced to pause plans to mine deep sea in Arctic
Small Socialist Left party threatens to block budget if government becomes first to issue licences for deep-sea exploration
Karen McVeigh
02, Dec, 2024 @12:35 PM
Plibersek had nature positive deal in writing before Albanese vetoed without her knowledge
Exclusive: Environment minister agreed detail with Greens but the PM intervened after lobbying from WA premier and miners
Karen Middleton and Lisa Cox
28, Nov, 2024 @7:45 PM
What’s behind the alarming rise in birth defects in Brazil’s illegal gold mining capital?
In Pará state children are being born with neurological disorders. Experts note similarities to the mercury poisoning disaster in Minamata, Japan – but say that is not the whole story
Dan Collyns in Itaituba, Brazil
28, Nov, 2024 @12:00 PM
Uncontacted hunter-gatherers facing threat of genocide because of minerals mining, claims report
Survival International says Hongana Manyawa in Indonesia are at risk but mining company says the people in ‘voluntary’ contact with workers
Damien Gayle
26, Nov, 2024 @5:00 AM
Polluted rivers, uprooted farmland and lost taxes: Ghana counts cost of illegal gold mining boom
Estimated $2bn lost in missed taxes from environmentally destructive practice some blame on political corruption
Eromo Egbejule in Wassa Akropong and Dunkwa-on-Offin
25, Nov, 2024 @5:00 AM
Queensland First Nations group lodges racial discrimination complaint against Adani
Coalminer rejects allegations that press releases and social media posts implied members of the group were not ‘legitimate’ Aboriginal people with a connection to sacred site
Ben Smee Queensland state correspondent
21, Nov, 2024 @2:00 PM
Work to regulate one of Australia’s biggest sources of carbon dioxide stalls, FoI documents reveal
Exclusive: Environmental group says it is ‘concerned’ to hear progress on cleaning up air pollution from diesel-burning may have hit a wall
Peter Hannam Economics correspondent
11, Nov, 2024 @2:00 PM
‘I do an illegal job, stealing’: the women forced to scavenge in Bolivia’s tin mines
Some work underground, others pick over tailings; all are running huge risks. But in the town of Huanani, the mines are the only way to support a family
Sarah Johnson
05, Nov, 2024 @10:00 AM
Whitehaven Coal faces rare shareholder action over mining plans and CEO’s $7m bonus
Australian miner paying ‘massive bonuses’ for ‘steamrolling ahead with an outdated and unacceptably risky coal growth strategy’, activists say
Peter Hannam Economics correspondent
28, Oct, 2024 @2:00 PM
Victims of Brazil’s worst environmental disaster to pursue claim in UK despite $31bn settlement
Case continuing in high court despite deal agreed with miner BHP to compensate those affected by dam collapse in 2015
Daniel Boffey Chief reporter
25, Oct, 2024 @5:30 PM
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