Bougainville Mining Bill 2014 in ABG Parliament
The Autonomous Bougainville Government is debating the new Bougainville Mining (Transitional Arrangements) Bill 2014 this week with a vote expected on Friday 8th August. Until the bill was made available this morning via the PNG Mine watch website, most people had yet to see the bill, indeed most Bouganvillians...
Colour Change on TV
COLOUR CHANGE will be broadcast on July 20th and 21st, 2014, by the about-to-be-demolished AUSTRALIA NETWORK which beams into India, South East and the Pacific. Click on the image for more information....
Earthworker Initiative
Earthworker – Dignified Work on a Healthy Planet The Earthworker Cooperative is off to a good start this year, as it begins to distribute its renewable energy products. The Earthworker project is a creative response to the challenges of climate change and the need for local job creation. The...
Mining Legacies Tour in Tasmania report back
By Dr. Gavin Mudd (MPI/Monash University) In early February, the Mineral Policy Institute (MPi) and the Tasmanian Public & Environmental Health Network (TPEHN) co-hosted a tour of abandoned and legacy mines in western and north-eastern Tasmania. The tour was led by Isla Macgregor from TPEHN and Dr Gavin Mudd,...
Tour Tasmania’s mining legacies
The Mineral Policy Institute (MPI) and the Tasmanian Public and Environmental Health Network (TPEHN) are touring Tasmanian mine sites in February to inspect the impacts that mining has had on the environment and especially waterways in Tasmania. Dr Gavin Mudd from Environmental Engineering at Monash University and Chair...
Central Victorian Goldfields
Fourteen Ounces | 2013 A photographic series by Jessie Boylan focusing on the Central Victorian Goldfields, supported by the Mineral Policy Institute. The discovery of gold in the Victorian Goldfields in the mid 19th century attracted an unprecedented population and caused an enormous housing and economic boom in the...
Mining the Poor: The Pervasive Extractive Industry in the Philippines
The Philippines has been considered the 5th most resource rich country in the world and communities are not being adequately given a voice over whether or not mining-related developments should take place. Government and company lack of transparency often results in communities being uninformed or misinformed about the potential...
PNGGaSEM formed to stop seabed mining in PNG
The campaign to stop experimental seabed mining in Solwara 1, by Nautilus Minerals Limited, a Canadian developer has been boosted by the establishment of a group, ‘Papua New Guinea Group against Seabed Experimental Mining (PNGGaSEM)’. This civil society group was established on Sunday 1 December, 2013 at the Ela...