by Gordon Barratt | Dec 10, 2020 | News
Private mining firms and arms companies are exerting a hidden and unhealthy influence on the fate of the deep-sea bed, according to a new report highlighting the threats facing the world’s biggest intact ecosystem. An investigation by Greenpeace found a handful of...
by Gordon Barratt | Dec 10, 2020 | News
Institutional investors today backed the findings of a parliamentary review into Rio Tinto’s legal destruction of ancient rockshelters in Western Australia which they said exposed material investment risk without more industry reform. The interim review into how...
by Gordon Barratt | Dec 10, 2020 | News
The Senate on Wednesday in an adopted motion urged the Executive arm of government to initiate investigations into illegal mining of gold in Zamfara and other gold endowed states across Nigeria. The Senate’s decision followed a motion sponsored by the Chief Whip,...
by Gordon Barratt | Dec 10, 2020 | News
The U.S. energy transition is well underway. Electricity from solar and wind is increasingly competitive with natural gas power, and the grid is hemorrhaging coal plants that no longer make economic sense. But without any real national climate policy managing the...
by Gordon Barratt | Dec 10, 2020 | News
The U.S. Treasury Department recently imposed new sanctions for Chinese companies and vessels accused of skirting United Nations resolutions banning coal shipments from North Korea. The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) added six new entities — four of them...
by Gordon Barratt | Dec 9, 2020 | News
An Australian-developed simulation software platform for improving the efficiency of mineral processing operations is set to take on the world. Developed by the Brisbane-based Cooperative Research Centre for Optimising Resource Extraction (CRC ORE), Integrated...
