Links to useful web resources
Specialist
groups campaigning on mining issues
Jaringan Advokasi Tambang (JATAM) supports Indonesian communities against the dehumanization and environmental destruction caused by the invasion of the mining, oil and gas industries.
Could be described (unofficially) as a "sister" organisation to MPI! Project Underground is based in Berkeley, USA and is an environmental and human rights organization that supports communities facing mining, oil and gas activities.
EMCBC is based in Canada, and has a special focus on protecting the ecology of British Columbia and the Yukon from the impacts of mining. EMCBC also works on international mining campaigns, particularly involving Canadian mining companies.
TWN Africa is a Non Governmental Organisation which carries out Research and Advocacy on issues of social and economic policy that advances the needs and interests of peoples of African and other third world countries. They have a strong focus on mining issues.
MWC is a pan-Canadian initiative supported by environmental, social justice, Aboriginal and labour organisations from across the country. It addresses the urgent need for a co-ordinated public interest response to the threats to public health, water and air quality, fish and wildlife habitat and community interests posed by irresponsible mineral policies and practices in Canada and around the world.
Aims to make information on mining impacts, projects, and the corporate sector more widely available. Above all, hopes to empower mining-affected communities, so that they can better fight against damaging proposals and practices.
A fantastic source of info on uranium mining, particularly in Australia. SEA-US promotes and publishes info on safe and sustainable energy production, a nuclear free world and anti-uranium mining issues.
Based in Washington, USA, MPC has focussed on efforts to reform USA government mining law but also supports communities and serves as an mining information resource center.
Friends of the Earth believes that the move towards sustainability requires a radical reduction in the production of raw materials and a shift in worldwide consumption patterns. Our mining campaign aims to prevent the construction and operation of environmentally and socially harmful exploration and extraction projects, and questions the unsustainable consumption model that lies behind these activities.
Friends of the Earth are involved in various mining campaigns. MPI is an affiliate member of FOE. Apart from MPI, the following branches have a particular focus on mining:
Legal Rights and Natural Resources Center, FOE Philippines
FOE Australia
FOE USA
FOE Ecuador (Acción Ecológica - in Spanish)
FOE Netherlands (Milieudefensie - in Dutch)
Down to Earth monitors and campaigns on the social and human implications of environmental issues in Indonesia. An excellent online newsletter provides information about mining issues in English and Indonesian.
The group was formed in 1994 as a result of concerns regarding the environmental damage done in Papua New Guinea, to the Ok Tedi and Fly Rivers, by BHP's Ok Tedi copper mine.
MMP is an alliance of tribal groups and organizations working in mining areas and tribal lands in India.
Social, economic, and environmental impacts of unsafe mining and sustainable use of the world's mineral resources. The website includes the latest issue of their newsletter, information on heavy metal toxicity and recycling, cartoons, and photographs showing what metallic sulfide mining does to the environment.
Other resources
Mining Environmental Database allows for free searches of journals, books, and government reports on mining, with a particular focus on abandoned mine lands, acid mine drainage, and reclamation.
Contacts for specialist groups campaigning on mining issues (no web site)
Based in London, Minewatch and Partizans campaign on international mining issues, and have a particular focus on the British/Australian mining company Rio Tinto.
Generalist environment, human rights and other campaigning groups
The aim of the Climate Action Network globally is to tackle the planet’s most challenging environmental problem - climate change. The earth’s atmosphere is a shared asset and the threats to it are a shared problem.
Local communities are organizing to protect their human and environmental rights in almost every single place where the fossil fuel industry sucks resources from the ground. Unfortunately, they are often met with government repression carried out in complicity with giant corporations like Shell or Chevron.
CAA's vision is of a fair world in which people control their own lives, their basic rights are achieved and the environment is sustained.
The Australian Conservation Foundation campaigns to protect, restore and sustain the environment.
The CFMEU is Australia's main trade union in construction, forestry and forest products, mining and energy production.
Information, ideas, and solutions to global environmental problems. A mining specific section is included in the website.
Indonesian Forum for Environment. The largest Indonesian networking organisation on environment issues.
Rainforest Action Network works to protect the Earth's rainforests and support the rights of their inhabitants through education grassroots organizing, and non-violent direct action.
IRN supports local communities working to protect their rivers and watersheds. We work to halt destructive river development projects, and to encourage equitable and sustainable methods of meeting needs for water, energy and flood management.
This Thai website provides information and analysis of development in the Mekong Region. Issues covered include the impact on the environment from mainstream development projects, implications of the policies of national governments and multilateral development agencies
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