Mining

New mining projects are being re-branded clean, green and vital to climate action across Europe. The reality is very different.

Protesters against a titanium mine in South Africa were brutally attacked. Six years later and justice has not been done.

The push to extract raw materials for an urgent ‘clean energy’ transition is impacting on vulnerable frontlines in resource-rich areas.
 

Mining that destroys communities and the ecosystem can have no part in any Green New Deal.

We must be able to imagine a world see from mining destruction before we can make this a reality.

Ireland has been identified as a hotspot in the European mining boom. Women across the country are fighting back.

'Green mining' is an oxymoron that is gaining traction in the EU and pushes a risky narrative about an environmentally destructive sector.

Communities, organisations and academics write to the EU to reject plans for a mining-heavy EU Green Deal.

We need a holistic, material transition towards a circular society.

Green Economics Institute (GEI) and Green European Foundation one-day conference asks, 'mining for metals, can it be fair?'

Robert Jenrick, communities secretary, to “call in” controversial application for new coal mine on the Cumbrian coast.

Young activists have added their voices to the call to stop a controversial new coking coal mine in Cumbria.

Communities in southern Madagascar impacted by water pollution are still waiting for basic public health information from mining giant Rio Tinto.

Brazilian activists continue to campaign for justice two years on from the Brumadinho mining disaster in Brazil.

Campaigners are infuriated that a deep coal mine in Cumbria has been permitted, and are fighting back.