In a major victory for the people of Peruvian mountain towns near Newmontís massive Yanacocha mine, Newmont Mining Corporation has relented in its quest to expand the mine to Mount Quilish, a mountain that many consider sacred and where expansion would further endanger water quality and public health. Large-scale protests that mobilized 10,000 or more […]
by Jessica Sherman, GGF intern Despite continued threats of violence from timber interests, forest communities and activists staged a six-day march to Tegucigalpa to press the government to halt rampant destruction of the forests of Olancho. A tremendous turnout in this second year of the march seems finally to have gained the government’s attention and […]
Note: Transformation Resource Centre (TRC), a Lesotho community development and human rights group, is working to bring moderation to the controversy over one of the largest dam building projects in the world. It’s getting help from an unlikely and very distant source: India’s famed Narmada Bachao Andolan. The six-dam Lesotho Highlands Water Project, designed […]
A controversial government decision to grant permits for gold mining in Ghana’s dwindling forest reserves threatens the survival of the forest and of the people who depend on the forest to meet their basic needs. Two Greengrants grantees are on the front lines of this battle: Wassa Association of Communities Against Mining (WACAM) and the […]
Newmont Mining Corporation, the world’s largest gold mining company, recently acquired a 10 percent stake in Canadian company Gabriel Resources’ Rosia Montana project in Romania. Newmont’s financing resuscitates a project that many hoped would be shelved, as Gabriel Resources’ missteps over the past two years appeared to have doomed the project. Global Greengrants Fund has […]
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