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Greenpeace: response to Standard Chartered AGM.

Last edited 8 May 2015 at 2:29pm
8 May, 2015

 Amid current concern over falling profits, Standard Chartered faced further scrutiny over its role in a controversial Australian coal mining project that threatens the Great Barrier Reef at its AGM on Wednesday.

 Greenpeace is calling for Standard Chartered to end its relationship with any company involved in exploiting the coal reserves of Australia’s Galilee Basin, one of the world’s largest untapped coal reserves. The campaigners say that this would contribute significantly to climate change and risks destroying the Great Barrier Reef, a World heritage Area and home to clown fish, turtles and humpback whales.

Article tagged as: coal mining, Galilee basin, great barrier reef

Last edited 1 January 1970 at 1:00am
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Giant coal mine at source of Yellow River exposed

Last edited 7 August 2014 at 10:32am
7 August, 2014

Beijing, August 7, 2014: The existence of a giant coal mine illegally encroaching on a nature reserve at the source of the iconic Yellow River, China’s second longest, has been brought to light by a Greenpeace investigation published by Energydesk today.

The sprawling mining operation, covering an area 14 times the size of the City of London at an altitude of over 4,000m, has been documented in detail for the first time in a series of striking pictures taken by undercover campaigners from Greenpeace’s Beijing office. The industrial site spans an entire coal industry chain, from huge opencast mines to the highest coking plant in the world.

Article tagged as: china, China Water, coal, coal mining

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