Mining

From Trade Unions for Energy Democracy, a report from South Africa: At its recent 17th National Congress, South Africa’s National Union…

Alan Thornett offers a detailed discussion of the situation in Ukraine and the need for a rapid global transition away…

URGENT! CALLING ON ALL TRADE UNIONISTS! The first new UK deep Coal Mine in 30 years could be approved in…

Via Eco-Business website Carbon capture and storage, trapping carbon before it enters the atmosphere, sounds neat. But many doubt it…

This is a response, by Alan Thornett, to the article entitled Deconstructing electric vehicles from Socialist Project in Canada, which…

We don’t agree with everything in this interesting article- particularly on the possibility of ‘clean’ coal- but it is an…

An important article which raises a number of points about sustainability and our future metals needs, from ABC News. If…

Alan Thornett has written a reply to the controversial article by Chirag Dahara and Vandana Singh, first published by Scientific…

This recent piece in Scientific American takes up the issues of growth and sustainability. Even “sustainable” technologies such as electric…

Lithium, Cobalt and Rare Earths- the post petroleum resource race and what to make of it, by Michael Klare, was…