Regulations

Alternative technology and tailings dam disasters

Jax Jacobsen

| 6th March 2019

What causes tailings dam - an earth-fill embankment dam used to store byproducts of mining operations - disasters and are there industry solutions?
$Placards and ribbons on a fence at an anti-fracking protest$

Earthquakes raise concerns as commercial fracking moves closer

Rod Harbinson

| 17th August 2018

Experts have said that fracking style oil exploration could be linked to a series of earthquakes that have rocked rural Surrey since April. ROD HARBINSON investigates
How the well-funded Legatum Institute has written the hymn sheet for a Dirty Brexit

Brendan Montague

| 28th November 2017

Dirty Brexit: The open secret that Brexit is more about financial and environmental deregulation than immigration is confirmed by the Legatum Institute, argues BRENDAN MONTAGUE

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