Publications Index

(Business Insider Australia, Sydney, 4 December 2015) Yesterday Gina Rinehart’s Roy Hill mine hit yet another snag. For a second time the first shipment of iron ore from Roy Hill was delayed following safety concerns. At a Sydney Mining Club function last night — held by Rinehart with the...

(Natural Resources Defense Council, New York, 22 October 2015) We have given a "climate grade" to key countries for their climate actions and new targets in the lead-in to the Paris climate agreement. Nobody is receiving top marks - an "A+" - but some countries are receiving failing grades. We...

(New York Times, New York, 10 October 2015) In 2013 the people who dreamed up Big River Steel in Arkansas wanted government aid that would help make the project successful — the kind of aid that groups like Heritage Action and Americans for Prosperity, both generously supported by the right-...

(Reuters, SOHAR, Oman, 8 September 2015) State-owned Oman Oil Refineries and Petroleum Industries Co (ORPIC) will borrow money to finance 70 percent of its $5.2 billion plastics production complex, its chief financial officer said on Tuesday. The complex, the Liwa Plastics Project, is...

(FOE Japan, Tokyo, 25 September 2015) At the proposed project site of the controversial 2,000-megawatt coal-fired power plant in Batang, Central Java, Indonesia, further cases of human rights violations have been reported. On September 25, the undersigned 63 organizations from 20 countries,...

(Reuters, London, 30 September 2015) China's promise to curb public funding of "highly polluting projects" has isolated Japan and increased the pressure to close a deal to phase-out coal export subsidies after months of wrangling. The Paris-based Organisation for Economic Cooperation and...