Tag: mining
Police and activists clash in German mining village
In Germany, police and climate activists clashed on Monday in the village of Lützerath, where a mining company has bought all the houses to be razed to the ground in…
Germany: Transformation of mining operations faces many challenges
/ Podcasts / International reporting Germany has set itself the goal of phasing out coal-fired power generation by 2038 at the latest. The last German coal mine having closed in…
DRC: a novel on the mining mirage
The action begins in Kolwezi, a city which was built on the exploitation of copper and cobalt mines in particular. In Le champ de Dieu, Olivier Kalal portrays a young…
mining operators want more support from the state
The mining sector is neglected by the State, deplore the Chamber of Mines of Madagascar and the Federation of Malagasy Mining Operators in a joint press release. The mining sector…
Towards an authorization for seabed mining?
The council of the International Seabed Authority (ISA) opens this Monday, October 31, in Kingston, Jamaica. This meeting will be very important, as it could open the door to seabed…
If the EU wants to break away from China, it has to swallow mining dust and dig up lithium from the ground itself
In relation to Russia, the EU is dependent on the old. China is a more difficult part, because there the EU is dependent on the new. Janne Toivonen, Alina Mäkynen…
artist Fakhri El Ghezal photographs declining mining towns
The artist Fakhri El Ghezal has published, in partnership with an artistic laboratory, a collection of photos on the town of Redeyef, in the west of the country, in order…
France: Mining group Imerys announces “one of the largest lithium extraction projects in the EU”
The industrial minerals group Imerys announced on Monday the start of mining by 2027 of a lithium deposit in the Allier, in central France, which will be “one of the…
Theater: “Out of the Blue”, or the ecological impact of mining in the seabed
The Festival d’Automne has just started in Paris and the shows often share the same environmental concerns. One of them, Out of the Blue, a Flemish Belgian production, focuses on…
at least 21 dead in two days in the mining area of Bigaragara, South Kivu
A conflict of rivalry for the occupation of the mining quarry of Bigaragara would be at the origin of this tragedy, and an armed Banyamulenge self-defense group is singled out,…