On August 14th Nine workers were killed after being exposed to toxic gas while dismantling an LNG carrier Rasi at the Ferdous Steel shipbreaking yard in Chattogram shipbreaking yard in Bangladesh.renewing scrutiny of safety conditions at South Asian recycling facilities especially because Ferdous Steel is certified as compliant with the Hong Kong International Convention for the Safe and Environmentally Sound Recycling of Ships, which entered into force last year. Ship-breaking is dangerous work pushed to the lowest wage areas of the world.
Seven miners have died after a mining pit collapsed in Kassa community, Barkin Ladi Local Government Area of Plateau State, Nigeria.
More than 100 people have died after an artisanal goldmine at the small village of Zamboye in western CAR, Central African Republic, caved in due to a landslide, local officials and aid workers said on Wednesday. What is termed “artisanal” means is not the mines of corporate capital as if their destruction of lands and livelihoods did not matter. The attraction especially of the possibility of gold to desperately poor people has increased with a nervous investor class’s enthusiasm for gold and its subsequent price increase.
The Israeli military has acknowledged that it opened fire on the vehicle carrying 5-year old Hind Rajib in Gaza. The admission in the face of undeniable evidence followed a UN-backed Commission report accusing the Israeli state of severe violations against .Palestinian children in Gaza and the West Bank which was immediately rebutted by the Israelis. The commission stated that the killings of children was strategic, the aim to “destroy the biological continuity of the Palestinians in Gaza.
Heavy snowfall and flash flooding killed 13 people at the end of JUly and shut down a copper mine that produces 2.5% of Chile’s copper. Snow also impacted ops at the Codelco copper mine. Chile produces 25% of the world’s copper, and the world is now in a structural shortage of the material “Many mines are in areas at risk from extreme weather events, the frequency of which is increasing [due] to climate change. That could mean more operations being halted, with concerns also rising about the demand for water by the sector in countries… at growing risk of drought”