Reko Diq Copper Gold Mining project in District Chagai of Balochistan Background In the year 1993 the Balochistan Development Authority (BDA) and Chagai Hills Exploration Joint Venture Agreement (CHEJVA) entered into a joint venture in which the shareholding constituted of Foreign Investor at 75 % and BDA at 25 % and BDA was entitled to
Bleak Future of Offshore Turbines Soaring inflation, rising energy costs and global temperatures have demolished any vision of achieving electricity generation of 70 % through renewable energy sources by the 2030's whether in the US or EU. Vested stakeholders within the US and EU underestimated the market of offshore turbines being rudely jolted by these
Roots of Muslim Maritime Trade The history of transregional trade in the Indian Ocean is reflective of a vibrant trade from around the 1st century AD . With the expansion of Islam into India, East Africa and Southeast Asia the Indian Ocean began to cohere as a unified global economy and subsequently bound up in
International Seabed Authority The International Seabed Authority (ISA) Assembly of 168 member states met in Jamaica recently to regulate deep-sea mining however the progressive regulatory proposals of Chile, Vanuatu, Palau, France and Costa Rica were unfortunately vetoed and critical ocean environmental issues adjourned by the Assembly to next year. Calls for a precautionary pause or
Canadian Mining company accused It has been highlighted by the Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) that Panamanian mining professionals , numbering almost 200,000, have embarked upon a crusade to prevent open-pit mining by a subsidiary of a Canadian-listed company on the counts of having breached more than 200 environmental regulations ,damaging historical and
Credit Greentech Media Whether it’s a wind turbine or a solar panel or nuclear power plant fossil fuel powers its manufacturing , mining, processing, transportation and installation. In the next decade Fossil fuels will remain irreplaceable and no renewable energy miracle is around the corner. Developing countries need to be cautious in transiting from fossil
