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Rusian Mining Exploration Company, Russia’s Norilsk Nickel Stretches From Arctic to SA, US to Australia
In July 2007, a Canada-domiciled mining company was acquired by a Russian group for $5,2-billion. That company was LionOre, and it had assets in Southern Africa – an 85% share in Tati Nickel, in Botswana, and a 50% stake in Nkomati Nickel, in South Africa.
LionOre’s buyer was the giant Russian mining and metallurgical group, OJSC [...]
Sherritt’s plans for $1.5B coal strip mine raise questions
Residents of East Central Alberta are about to see their landscape drastically change in the next five years.
On Monday, Sherritt announced the final Terms of Reference and made available their Public Disclosure Document for the Dodds – Round Hill Coal Gasification project.
This Project will be located approximately 80 kilometres southeast of Edmonton just south of [...]
The limits to growth and the turn to the heavens
The 1970s was a period of intense concern about natural resource shortages. It is associated strongly in the popular memory with the dire predictions of Paul Ehrlich’s The Population Bomb and the Club of Rome’s Limits to Growth report, the 1973 and 1979 oil price shocks, and dystopian films like Z.P.G., Soylent Green and Logan’s [...]
