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The Port of Vancouver agreed Tuesday to continue a preliminary lease agreement with a global company in hopes of eventually reaching a final deal to build a potash export facility at the port’s Terminal 5. The port’s Board of Commissioners voted unanimously to extend the preliminary lease with Australian mining giant BHP Billiton. Forcing the [...] 
Canada produced 67.3 million of tonnes of coal in 2011 according to the preliminary results of a PwC report on the industry, generating revenues of $6.5 billion. About 40 per cent of that is exported. Despite a drop in prices in China, Canadian coal companies are not slowing down exploration programs or development of new [...] Major points of contention in the strike are pensions, certain work rules and fatigue management. Canada introduced legislation Monday to force striking Canadian Pacific Railway workers back to their jobs after talks stalled over the weekend, the country’s labor minister said Monday. Locomotive engineers and conductors went on strike Wednesday, shutting down freight service [...] Workers at the Ports of Auckland have received a major boost with support coming from the global Mining and Maritime Initiative. A meeting in Sydney of the Mining and Maritime Initiative that brings together some of the world’s largest and most effective trade unions has heard from a delegation of Ports of Auckland workers who [...] Excerpts from a David Bacon article called “Displaced, Unequal and Criminalized – Fighting for the Rights of Migrants in the United States:” The Department of Homeland Security workplace enforcement wave is focusing, not on low-wage employers, but on high-wage, and often unionized ones. There is a long history of anti-union animus among immigration authorities. Agents [...] This week’s blockade to prevent corporate mining on indigenous lands in Panama. English summary: The Association of Public and Private Employees (ANEP) in Costa Rica sent this news release to the ILWU Coast Longshore Division. It says that the Panamanian police and military have killed three people and injured dozens since the beginning of [...] Bolivia’s President Evo Morales (left) is shown meeting with China’s President Hu Jintao in August. Morales said after the visit that Chinese officials expressed interest in making the railway project a priority. It’s not immediately clear how much the railway would cost, or how much financial support China might provide. Credit: Xinhua photo by [...]
The 361-metre-long Vale Bejing is loaded with enough high-grade iron ore to make the steel for nearly three-and-a-half Golden Gate bridges. Were it to settle to the bottom at the Ponta da Madeira Port near Sao Luis, Brazil, the carrier could disrupt about a third of Vale’s 300 million tonnes in annual shipments of [...] An Australian company says it is buying an interest in coal mines in Montana and Wyoming as interest increases in shipping the product overseas to feed growing energy demands in Asia. Ambre Energy Limited announced on Thursday it was buying a 50 percent interest in the Decker Coal Company in southern Montana and the Black [...] In the wake of the Qantas battle between management and unions, the country’s waterfront could stand to become the next front in the increasingly tense relationship between employers and their workers’ unions, according to a report by the Australian Financial Review. With dock worker strikes at three locations and negotiations deadlocked at two others, [...]
RIO TINTO STRIKE: In October, security forces opened fire on striking miners at a Freeport McMoRan-Rio Tinto gold and copper mine in Papau, Indonesia, killing 30-year-old Petrus Ayemsekaba and injuring six, the latest episode in decades of alleged human rights abuses and killings linked to the mine. Union leader Manuel Maniambo said thousands of [...] Leading international mining and maritime unions representing millions of workers around the world met in Durban, South Africa this month for the Mining and Maritime Initiatives international conference. They discussed ways to work together, increase solidarity and more effectively represent members in the globalized world of the maritime and mining industries. They passed the following [...] Vancouver’s Copper Mountain Mining made the first shipment of copper concentrate from its new mine near Princeton to the port of Vancouver. The concentrate is transported in 50-tonne super B train truck units. Port facilities are complete, including a truck discharging and storage area. Copper Mountain (the company) build a new 35,000-t/d milling facility and [...] The election's impact on the Port of Callao is still unknown, though Humala has said he opposes private concessions of the docks. DP World and APM Terminals have brought foreign management to the port. Peru’s benchmark stock index plunged 12.5% Monday. Investors rushed for the exits on fears that the country’s next president, populist [...] Ollanta Humala's champions were the neglected — one in three Peruvians are poor and have gained little or nothing from a mining bonanza that turned its economy into Latin America's top performer the past decade. Leftist military man Ollanta Humala declared victory Sunday night after unofficial results showed him narrowly winning a bitterly contested [...] |
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