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José Ramón Ávila, national coordinator of Honduran NGO the Civil Society Group (GSC) said this week that his organization and other environmental organizations would protest in the streets nationally against the new Mining Law now in force in the country if necessary.
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31 May 2013- 09:20 by Local Press Report LIMA Reuters Protests in northern Peru over the $5 billion Conga gold mine make "no sense" and could spell the end of the project if they succeed in preventing the draining of a nearby lake, the project's junior partner said on Thursday.
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More than a hundred protesters gathered outside oil giant Chevron’s headquarters on May 29 to demonstrate against the company’s “environmentally destructive” practices. Chevron was holding its annual meeting.
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The estimated agricultural production and water resources in the area around mining giant Xstrata Nickel’s Loma Miranda project are worth more than the nickel that will be extracted, according to a report released last week by Dominican environmental information clearinghouse Accion Verde.
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St. Petersburg will increase the amount of wastewater it treats before release to 99.9 percent by 2018, St. Petersburg Governor Georgy Poltavchenko told a press conference last week.
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Chile’s Environmental Superintendent this week fined Canada-based mining giant Barrick Gold $16 million USD – the maximum allowed under Chilean law – for violations of its environmental permits at its $8.5 billion USD Pascua Lama project.
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Chinese experts recently completed two dams and one diversion channel in Sichuan province-- near where the massive 2008 Wenchuan earthquake crumbled mountain tops along the Longmen fault line-- in an effort to reduce the possibility of future landslides.
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Tajik President Emomali Rakhmon detailed what he said were the five main water management problems facing Central Asia during this week’s Second Asia-Pacific Water Summit in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
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The World Bank announced on May 21 that it is launching the second phase of its joint Water Partnership Program, which involves the bank and the governments of the Netherlands, Denmark and the United Kingdom.
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The Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, has allocated 200 hectares of land for the dual construction of a large cemetery and an adjacent sewage treatment plant, both of which are much needed. The plot is located on the right bank of the Dnieper River just outside the city center.
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The government of Panama will invest $700 million USD to improve drinking water supply and sanitation under the National Integrated Plan of President Ricardo Martinelli.
