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Policy
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The Mining Industry's Ongoing Sustainability Crisis
Despite much posturing around the issue of corporate social responsibility, much remains amiss in the mining industries response to sustainability issues. Read a version of an article by MPI Director, Techa Beaumont published in the Ethical Investor magazine
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Mineral Policy
As our societies have dramatically increased our consumption of the earths resources, we impact upon the ability of others, including future generations to achieve sustainable livelihoods. As the extraction of a non renewable resource, mining is inherently unsustainble, but our global community is doing little to address the fundamental policy changes necessary to address declining mineral resources and increasing environmental and social impacts from mining activites.
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Carbon capture is ‘head in the ground’ stuff
The tactics of the coal industry have shifted from denying climate change is occuring to claiming that coal burning can continue anyway because the greenhouse gases that they produce can simply be buried underground. Yet this process, called carbon capture and storage (CCS) or geo-sequestration, is an unproven, expensive technology and
will probably not be commercially viable for Hunter Valley power plants.
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