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Environmental Protests
The Environmental Justice Atlas documented 3,100 Environmental conflict, environmental conflicts worldwide as of April 2020 and emphasised that many more conflicts remained undocumented. Climate * Global Climate March * Global Day of Action * March Against Monsanto * March for Science (2017) * People's Climate March (2014) * People's Climate March (2017) * School strike for climate / Fridays for Future (FFF) (2018–) ** September 2019 climate strikes * Stop Climate Chaos * Say Yes demonstrations * March for Science Portland * Camp for Climate Action * End Fossil - Occupy! Mining * Antamina mine * Akyem mine * Ashio Copper Mine * 2000 Baia Mare cyanide spill, 2000 Baia Mare Cyanide spill * Bajo de la Alumbrera mine * Chirano Gold Mine * Famatina mining protests * Fruta del Norte mine * Garzweiler surface mine * Konkola Copper Mines * La Colosa mine * Lake Natron * Las Bambas copper mine ** 2015 Peruvian protests against Las Bambas mining project * El Chanate * Conflict mine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Environmental Justice Atlas
The Environmental Justice Atlas, sometimes known as EJAtlas is a website that documents environmental conflict. The website was published by Environmental Justice Organisations, Liability and Trade (Ejolt) and moderated by the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Management of the website is done by university staff Leah Temper, Daniela Del Bene and Joan Martinez Alier, Joan Martínez-Alier. The project was launched in 2012. As of 2019, it was managed by the EnvJustice Project. As of 2018, the website documented approximately 2,500 conflicts and enables users to filter conflicts using over 100 fields. While the website continues to be actively maintained by a range of collaborators including from academia and NGOs, and in early 2024 contained over 4,000 conflicts, with conflicts tracked across 10 broad Environmental movement, environmental conflict categories. References {{Environmental justice Environmental websites 2012 establishments in Spain Joan Martinez Alier ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Camp For Climate Action
The Camps for Climate Action are Political campaign, campaign gatherings (similar to peace camps) that take place to draw attention to, and act as a base for direct action against, major Global warming#Causes, carbon emitters, as well as to develop ways to create a zero-carbon society. Camps are run on broadly anarchist principles – free to attend, supported by donations and with input from everyone in the community for the day-to-day operation of the camp. Initiated in the UK, camps have taken place in England at Drax power station, Heathrow Airport, Kingsnorth power station in Kent, the City of London and The Royal Bank of Scotland Headquarters, near Edinburgh. During 2009 camps also took place in Canada, Denmark, France, Ireland, Netherlands/Belgium, Scotland, Wales and Australia. The Camp for Climate Action, first came into being in 2006, after activists at the 31st G8 summit#Activism, 2005 G8 conference in Stirling in Scotland mooted the idea. General Camps are organised ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lake Natron
Lake Natron is a salt lake, salt or soda lake, alkaline lake located in north Ngorongoro District of Arusha Region in Tanzania with its far northern end crossing into Kenya. It is in the Gregory Rift, which is the eastern branch of the East African Rift. The lake is within the Lake Natron Basin, a Ramsar Convention, Ramsar Site wetland of international significance. It is the only regular breeding area for Africa's lesser flamingoes, although this habitat is not protected and is under threat from planned development projects. Description This lake is fed principally by the Southern Ewaso Ng'iro River, which rises in central Kenya, and by mineral-rich hot springs. It is quite shallow, less than deep, and varies in width depending on its water level. The lake is a maximum of long and wide. The surrounding area receives irregular seasonal rainfall, mainly between December and May totalling per year. Temperatures at the lake are frequently above . High levels of evaporation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Colosa Mine
La Colosa is a porphyry gold mine in Colombia. The mine is located in Cajamarca, Tolima on the eastern flanks of the Central Ranges of the Colombian Andes. La Colosa has estimated inferred resources of of gold, grading at of Au. In 2015, the mine produced of gold.Gold - UPME In 2016, 88.4% of the mining value in Colombia came from coal and gold combined, with nickel following at 9.3%. Description La Colosa, covering an area of , is the second major greenfield discovery in Colombia, after Gramalote and believed to have a potential of producing between of gold per y ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Konkola Copper Mines
Konkola Copper Mines (abbreviated to KCM) is a copper mining and smelting company in Zambia. It is 80% owned by Vedanta Resources, a mining conglomerate based in Mumbai and London. Operations The company is 80% owned by Vedanta Resources and 20% owned by the state mining company of Zambia, ZCCM Investments Holdings. KCM produces 2 million tons of copper ore per year. The company's Konkola Deep Mining Project will expand its capacity to 6 million tons of ore per year. Company assets include Konkola Copper Mine, Nchanga Copper mine near Chingola, Nampundwe Pyrites Mine and Nkana Refinery in Kitwe - the largest copper smelter in Zambia. Exports were transported to the ports of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania and Durban in South Africa. Principal markets included the Middle East and East Asia. Metal was also sold domestically, to Metal Fabricators of Zambia. History The company declared insolvency in early 2019. Later that year, 1,826 Zambians obtained permission from the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garzweiler Surface Mine
The Tagebau Garzweiler () is a surface mine () in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It is operated by RWE and used for mining lignite Lignite (derived from Latin ''lignum'' meaning 'wood'), often referred to as brown coal, is a soft, brown, combustible sedimentary rock formed from naturally compressed peat. It has a carbon content around 25–35% and is considered the lowest .... The mine currently has a size of and got its name from the village of which previously existed at this location. The community was moved to a section of Jüchen with the same name. The open-pit mine The mine is located west of Grevenbroich and exploitation is progressing towards Erkelenz. Mining was originally limited to the Garzweiler I area located east of the A 44 motorway. Mining in the Garzweiler II area started in 2006 and is estimated to take until around 2045 to fully exploit both sectors. The lignite is used for power generation at nearby power plants such as Neura ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fruta Del Norte Mine
The Fruta del Norte deposit is the largest gold deposit in Ecuador Ecuador, officially the Republic of Ecuador, is a country in northwestern South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and the Pacific Ocean on the west. It also includes the Galápagos Province which contain .... The deposit is part of the Corriente Copper Belt located in the Amazon province of Zamora-Chinchipe. In 2006 Aurelian Resources discovered a large deposit at Fruta del Norte, estimated between 6.8 and 10 million ounces of gold and between 9.1 and 14 million ounces of silver. Following changes to Ecuadorian mining laws that limited foreign ownership of mining projects, the Canadian company Kinross Gold acquired Aurelian Resources in 2009 and took on the project. Despite the project's potential, and just days before Congress passed a new mining law in 2013, Kinross pulled out of Ecuador after a dispute over windfall taxes, reporting a loss of $720 million. In 2014 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Famatina Mining Protests
The Famatina mining protests opposed gold mining in La Rioja La Rioja () is an autonomous communities in Spain, autonomous community and provinces of Spain, province in Spain, in the north of the Iberian Peninsula. Its capital is Logroño. Other List of municipalities in La Rioja, cities and towns in the ..., Argentina beginning in 2011. Osisko Mining Corporation, based in Montreal, Canada, signed an agreement in August 2011 with La Rioja's state mining corporation “Energia y Minerales Sociedad del Estado”(ESME) to develop the Famatina gold project. This project would cover an area of 40 km2 in the Famatina Mountain Range. Osisko agreed to pay US$500 000 to ESME within 15 days of the signing and invest $US 10 million within the first year of exploration. The terms also stated the division of profits from the project; 70% for Osisko, 30% for ESME. Politics Provincial Governor Luis Beder Herrera was elected in March 2007 on an anti-mining platform. In 2008 however, G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chirano Gold Mine
Chirano Gold Mine ''(currently Kinross mining)'' is an underground and open pit gold mine in the Western North Region of Ghana, within the Bibiani gold belt. It is 90% owned by Vancouver based Asante Gold Corporation. The Government of Ghana has a 10% carried interest. Description The Chirano Gold Mine is located in southwestern Ghana, approximately 100 kilometres southwest of Kumasi, Ghana's second-largest city. Chirano was explored and developed from 1996 by Red Back Mining NL, an Australian company that moved to a Canadian listing in April 2004. Chirano began production in October 2005. Kinross Gold acquired the mine on 17 September 2010 through a US$7.1 billion takeover of Red Back Mining, through which it also acquired the Tasiast Gold Mine in Mauritania Mauritania, officially the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, is a sovereign country in Maghreb, Northwest Africa. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west, Western Sahara to Mauritania–Western Sahar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bajo De La Alumbrera Mine
Bajo de la Alumbrera mine was a gold and copper mine in the Catamarca Province, of Argentina. It was the largest and the oldest open pit mine in Argentina. The mine opened in 1997 and was met with local opposition before complaints about environmental pollution. The mine closed in 2018. Description Bajo de la Alumbrera mine was a gold and copper mine in the Catamarca Province, of Argentina. It is located 70 kilometres west of Andalgalá and cost $1.2 billion to open. It is the largest and the oldest open pit mine in Argentina. In 2000, the mine was the fourteenth largest gold mine in the world and the ninth largest copper mine. The mine had 648 million metric tons of 0.54% copper and gold at 0.67 grams per metric ton. The mine uses cyanide and sulphuric acid to extract the copper and gold from the ore. It uses between 60 million and 100 million litres of water per day. The mine produces 314,000 tons of ore daily, which is mixed with water into mud that is piped 216 kilometr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2000 Baia Mare Cyanide Spill
The 2000 Baia Mare cyanide spill was a leak of cyanide near Baia Mare, Romania, into the Someș, Someș River by the gold mining company Aurul, a joint-venture of the Australian company Esmeralda Exploration and the Romanian government. The polluted waters eventually reached the Tisza, Tisza River and then the Danube, killing large numbers of fish in Hungary, Serbia, and Romania. The spill has been called the worst environmental disaster in Europe since the Chernobyl disaster. Background Aurul, the mine operator, is a joint venture company formed by the Australian company Esmeralda Exploration and the Romanian government. The company claimed it had the ability to clean up the toxic tailings at the Baia Mare mine, which had begun to be spread as toxic dust by the wind. Promising to deal with them and to extract the remaining gold from them via gold cyanidation, the company shipped its waste product to a dam near Tăuții-Măgherăuș, Bozânta Mare, Maramureș County. Dam failur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ashio Copper Mine
The was a copper mine located in the town of Ashio, Tochigi (now part of the city of Nikkō, Tochigi), in the northern Kantō region of Japan. It was the site of Japan's first major pollution disaster in the 1880s and the scene of the 1907 miners' riots. The pollution disaster led to the birth of the Japanese environmental movement and the 1897 Third Mine Pollution Prevention Order. It also triggered changes in the mine's operations, which had played a role in the 1907 riots, part of a string of mining disputes in 1907. During World War II the mine was worked by POW forced labour. History Copper deposits are recorded as having been discovered in the area around the year 1550, but exploitation did not begin until two local households received an official permit in 1610 to establish a mine. In 1611, copper from the site was presented to officials of the shogunate; and shortly thereafter, Ashio was officially listed as a copper mine belonging to the Tokugawa shogunate. Copper, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
