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I was the first successful publicly financed candidate for the Albuquerque City Council in 2007. That was because I was worried about the private money behind our elections and our policy making. And ...

As its name suggests, the Global Extraction Film Festival (GEFF) 2021—which this year consisted of more than 150 documentaries, shorts, and “urgent shorts” from over 40 countries—focuses on the ...

Much of the landscape of Indonesia’s East Kalimantan province has been transformed, its formerly vast forests razed for logging, monocrop agriculture and open-cast coal mining. A recently published ...

Chad’s subsoil holds a diverse range of mineral resources, including artisanally mined gold, antimony, uranium indicators, natron, limestone, clay, as well as quartz, salt, gypsum and traces of ...

On June 27, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) issued a new rule requiring extractive sector companies (oil, gas, and mining) to disclose the payments that they make to governments for the ...

Last month, UN Environment released its Global Resources Outlook, and found that resource extraction now accounts for half of the world’s total global carbon emissions. The extractive industries are ...

Mining and power generation companies invest in the Amazon because it is profitable. But their development is costly, so before setting up, the companies evaluate not only the richness of the mineral ...

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It is probable that all the continental PRCM countries have hydrocarbon reserves which will eventually become economically viable as the price of oil continues to increase. Similarly, all the ...