In the face of continuing drought and “extremely escalating fire conditions,” Raton fire department officials have imposed fire restrictions within the city that include no open burning and specific safety standards for the use of barbecue grills. The restrictions recently put in…
The number of foreigners involved in illegal mining in Colombia is on the rise as metal profits including gold exceed those of cocaine, police said. Citizens from Italy, Brazil and China have been arrested in Colombia this year as authorities attempt to…
Canada’s Ministers of Natural Resources and International Trade, as well as the minister for the Federal Economic Development Initiative for North Ontario unveiled Canada’s Strategy for the Extractive Sector Tuesday during the Mining Association of Canada’s (MAC) annual Mining Day on the…
Today, the village of Sebastiya held its first demonstration in order to protest the flooding of its land by the sewage coming from the nearby Jewish-only settlement of Save Shomron. Around 150 people from Sebastiya, together with Israeli and international activists, participated…
