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Peru Gold Mining Is Increasing Wildlife Exposure to Mercury

Peru Gold Mining Is Increasing Wildlife Exposure to Mercury

SOURCE: Courthouse News Service and Science Advances DATE: November 28, 2020 SNIP: Increased gold mining activity in Peru is leading to a dangerous ecological threat as newly dug pits have increased mercury exposure to wildlife and people, according to new research...
Gold vs. Salmon: An Alaska Mine Project Just Got a Boost

Gold vs. Salmon: An Alaska Mine Project Just Got a Boost

SOURCE: New York Times DATE: July 24, 2020 SNIP: From the air it looks like just another tract of Alaska’s endless, roadless tundra, pockmarked with lakes and ponds, with a scattering of some of the state’s craggy mountains. But this swath of land, home to foraging...
Green-Energy Companies Have a Human-Rights Problem

Green-Energy Companies Have a Human-Rights Problem

SOURCE: Bloomberg News DATE: July 4, 2020 SNIP: Land seizures. Dangerous working conditions. Mistreatment of native populations. For decades, such practices were associated in the public mind with the oil and gas industries. That perception in turn undermined...
Trump’s $1.5B uranium bailout triggers rush of mining plans

Trump’s $1.5B uranium bailout triggers rush of mining plans

SOURCE: AP DATE: February 14, 2020 SNIP: President Donald Trump’s $1.5 billion proposal to prop up the country’s nuclear fuel industry has emboldened at least one company to take steps toward boosting operations at dormant uranium mines around the West, including...