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Mining and development: How to get the balance right?

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Mining is ubiquitous in the developing world, boosting foreign direct investment and creating jobs, but bringing with it a series of social and environmental problems that have often torn communities apart and fermented social unrest. The connection between mining and international development is an important one, but the antagonism between the two sides of the debate has allowed for certain sectors to be neglected. One such sector is that of artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM).The Peruvian more...

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D C on May 02, 2012

Open Corporates

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opencorporates.com –

The Open Database of the Corporate World.OpenCorporates aims to have a URL for every company in the world. It is gradually importing government data relating to companies, and trying to match it to specific companies. It has grown from 3 territories and a few million companies to over 30 territories and 30 million companies, and is working with the open data community to add more each week.It makes the data available in a number of forms, and has a liberal licensing policy for its database use. more...

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John Daly on April 23, 2012

Kosovo's coal: A World Bank legacy

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This documentary, put together by Balkan Investigative Reporting Network and Crossing Bridges Productions, highlights the troubled relationship Kosovo has with coal: sitting on one of the richest veins of coal in the world, the region lacks power and yet is already suffering from pollution-induced health problems from its existing power plants. Nezir Sinani, of the Kosovar Institute for Development Policy, travels to where another World Bank funded coal plant is being built in Africa and more...

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D C on April 23, 2012

Lost billions: Transfer pricing in the extractive industries

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pwyp.no –

Over 110 billion US dollars seems to have ‘disappeared’ in over and under pricing on import of crude oil in the European Union and the USA between 2000 and 2010. How did that happen?Transfer pricing is one of the most usual techniques that extractive industries can use to transfer profits from the source country and to the company itself. Today, over 60% of world trade is taking place within transnational companies, such as the extractive industries. The OECD suggests that companies should keep more...

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D C on March 20, 2012

Managing the growing impacts of development on fragile coastal and marine ecosystems: lessons from the gulf

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unu.edu –

Like many other places in the world, the coastal region of the Persian Gulf (also known as the Arabian Gulf) faces continuous environmental degradation. The unprecedented rate and scale of development that has occurred poses numerous environmental challenges and may be the greatest threat facing the Gulf’s marine communities in the coming decades as urban populations along it’s shores continue to grow.Some of the richest countries in the world are found in this region, including Kuwait, Qatar more...

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D C on January 08, 2012

Nepal: Mine Risk Education

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All modern-day armed conflicts have left behind problems of explosive remnants of war [ERW], usually for years or even decades after the conflict ended. Nepal is no exception and during the decade-long conflict the parties to the conflict used improvised explosive devices [IEDs], landmines and other types of explosive devices. Due to the nature of the conflict, explosive ordnance contamination was widespread and has affected many different districts in all five regions of the country.

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Moushumi Biswas on March 27, 2012

The hidden epidemic amongst former miners

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The aim of the research was to assess current and historical surveillance of the pneumoconioses in former miners, in particular silicosis, silico-tuberculosis, and tuberculosis, and to assess the functioning of the Occupational Diseases in Mines and Works Act (ODMWA) surveillance and compensation system which is a responsibility of the Department of Health. The research also aimed to assess the impact of the burden of lung disease and disability on the public health system and on the more...

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D C on November 17, 2011

Climate impact analysis of the China First Mine, Queensland

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China First is one of the most advanced of a number of proposed mines in the Galilee Basin in Queensland. This report examines the climate impact of the China First mine, considers whether the project can be assessed in isolation from the rest of the Galilee Basin, and extrapolates emissions calculations for China First to the remainder of the proposed development in the Basin. Emissions and coal production from the China First mine and the Galilee Basin are compared to the cumulative global more...

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Sonia Hossain on April 02, 2012

Burning Oil to Keep Cool: The Hidden Energy Crisis in Saudi Arabia

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chathamhouse.org –

Domestic energy demand growth in Saudi Arabia is cause for international concern. If it continues at the current rate, it could jeopardize the country's ability to stabilize world oil markets.Given Saudi Arabia's level of dependence on oil revenues, excessive consumption will cause economic and social pressures long before oil exports end – within a decade if nothing changes.Current policies are not enough. Planned additions of renewable power supply would help maintain the fiscal balance for more...

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Moushumi Biswas on December 18, 2011

UNMAS Mine Action Programming Handbook 2012

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mineaction.org –

This Programming Handbook is a detailed description of the working of UNMAS at headquarters and in the field meant to facilitate the work of UNMAS staff and to allow external partners to understand the working of UNMAS in addressing the landmine and ERW problem globally. The processes outlined include standard UN work practices as well as UNMAS specific work as it pertains to its work.

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Moushumi Biswas on January 10, 2012

Going Global: Chinese Oil and Mining Companies and the Governance of Resource Wealth

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wilsoncenter.org –

This report by Senior Scholar Jill Shankleman was drawn from her six-month research project at the Center examining the impact of China's oil and mining companies' overseas expansion on the governance of resource wealth.

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Moushumi Biswas on January 05, 2012

World Oil Outlook 2011

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OPEC’s World Oil Outlook 2011 is part of the Organization’s commitment to market stability and a means to highlight and further understand many of the possible future challenges and opportunities that lie ahead of the oil industry. This year’s WOO highlights that OPEC’s role will be even more important in the future. Its Member Countries’ daily efforts to provide adequate petroleum supplies to the market, coupled with the huge investments being made to maintain existing fields and more...

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Sonia Hossain on December 14, 2011

Environmental and Health Impacts of Canada's Oil Sands Industry

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rsc.ca –

Oil sands production has become increasingly controversial because of several widely publicized environmental and health issues. The oil sands deposits in northern Alberta have become a focus of intense development in recent years. For this issue, the authors focused only on the contribution of the oil sands industry to the collective GHG emissions, the sources of those emissions and control options for reducing them, whether these emissions are increasing, and what implications oil sands GHG more...

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Sonia Hossain on December 26, 2011

Commodity markets review (February 2012)

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www-wds.worldbank.org –

The dollar price of non-energy commodities rose by 2.9 percent in January, the first increase in six months, on various weather-related supply constraints, improving macro sentiment, and in part due to dollar depreciation (down 0.6 percent against a broad group of major trading partners). The largest increases were for metals on expectations of higher demand, while several agriculture prices rose due to drought conditions, notably in South America. Crude oil prices moved higher on rising more...

Added by Zunia on February 10, 2012

Join the ELLA Learning Alliance on Extractive Industries

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ella.practicalaction.org –

This Learning Alliance looks at the ways in which Latin American countries plan and implement extractive industry investments from a social, political and environmental perspective. It identifies good practices and lessons in environmental protection and mitigation, case examples of how social conflicts are managed, and fair approaches for the distribution of rents captured from the extractive industries.Policy experiences and case studies from Latin America are presented and collectively more...

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GRADE Grupo de Análisis para el Desarrollo on February 02, 2012

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