Mining
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NT chief minister also tells mining summit political activism in NSW was an opportunity for the state to build up its resources industry
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Mithaka people of south-west Queensland say the government has violated international law by failing to consult them over fracking
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The booming global mining industry is encroaching on farmland for marginalised people, how can NGOs protect them? Writes Caspar van Vark
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Side effects of illegal mining in the Amazon caused a resurgence of malaria. Creating job opportunities could be a solution, writes Camila Nobrega
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Rugby star says he has joined the long-running anti-coal mine campaign in NSW because ‘it is part of being a human being’
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Women's rights and gender equality in focus Women on climate change frontline make big impact on small grants
Teresa OdendahlTeresa Odendahl: From Guatemala to Indonesia, bold action by women in communities threatened by extreme weather shows there is an alternative to costly international schemes -
Urgent action required to save white-throated snapping turtle amid fears that loss of eggs and hatchlings is crippling the population, says Queensland researcher
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Guardian Australia: Environmental groups accuse government of leaning on banks to back mines despite being signatories to Equator Principles
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Inquiry into Queensland government hears Liberal National party took CSG donations despite Coalition senators’ denials
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Drew Hutton: Questionable mining approvals and big donations – that’s ‘Queensland Incorporated’. The Palmer inquiry is our best chance for transparency
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Norway’s green and unspoilt image is at risk if government agrees to Nordic Mining dumping hundreds of millions of tonnes of waste into a fjord, say campaigners
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Government backdown means Indian owners won’t be required to replace razed critically endangered habitat until two years into the project
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Green party’s presidential candidate Peter Sinkamba is promising voters to cut country’s dependency on mining – by growing and exporting marijuana
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Guardian Australia: Speech at event promoting coal interrupted by chants of ‘Peabody, we don’t want your coal. You don’t belong at G20’
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Obama has said he's done more than any other president to fight climate change, but America still gets 40% of its electricity from coal. Suzanne Goldenberg gained rare access to the North Antelope Rochelle Mine in Wyoming, one of the largest coal mines in the world, to see how the industry is fairing in an increasingly carbon constrained world
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Despite Obama’s pledge to cut carbon emissions, production at North Antelope Rochelle mine in Wyoming is booming - and climate change is off the agenda. Suzanne Goldenberg gets a rare look inside the biggest coalmine in the world
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Government responds to backlash by moving amendments to ensure the bill only protects industries ‘vulnerable to protest action’
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Collapsing iron ore prices are set to smash the Western Australian budget. But the premier can’t blame the miners when the state’s forecasts were too high
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Farmers and miners are locked in conflict over some of South Australia’s most productive cropland. And both are at the mercy of the dizzying rise and fall of commodity prices
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Resource scarcity and human rights issues surrounding metals extraction, coupled with unrelenting global demand mean the industry is facing some tough realities
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Researchers find that larvae development is significantly stunted by murky water and increased sediment
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Environment group says cleaning up after mining is taking too long and the bond encouraging operators to help is too small
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Guardian Australia: Protesters from 12 Pacific nations launch kayaks and other vessels into coal port’s harbour to highlight their concern about climate change
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Australian National University says it would reconsider its decision to sell shares in seven resource companies ‘should new information come to hand’
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Victorian Liberals launch mining licence locator, but anti-fracking activists say both major parties are avoiding the real issue
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Future Fund says it must consider ‘changing demand for fossil fuels’ as PM attacks the university’s divestment move
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Former Liberal leaders sign open letter in support of university’s decision to divest from a number of fossil fuel companies
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Coal industry PR campaign aims to convince world leaders that coal-fired power offers the solution to ‘energy poverty’ in developing countries
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The Australian prime minister is contradicting other world leaders to echo the coal industry’s own PR message
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‘Coal is vital for the future energy needs of the world, so let’s have no demonisation of coal’ says PM
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Conservation Action Trust challenges approval of Australia’s largest coal mine, whose coal would be burned in India
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Lock the Gate Alliance told it cannot hold a forum on restoring Queensland’s upper house because of a previous protest
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John Momis wants to give all landowners the right to stop mining development in the wake of plans to reopen the Panguna site
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Damien Kingsbury: OceanaGold, an Australian mining concern, is trying to compel El Salvador to allow it to mine. If it wins a high-profile legal case, the results for the poor country will be dire
Protest isn't just for wide-eyed optimists. David Pocock and I put it in our vows