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WORKERS BLOCKADE VALE INCO SITES IN SUDBURY (mollymew.blogspot.com)Last Wednesday striking workers of United Steel Workers Local 6500 temporally blockaded several corporate sites of Vale Inco across the Sudbury region.
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Confronting Vale not wise for students - John J. Lundrigan Sr. Retired supervisor: safety/training Sudbury (www.thesudburystar.com)No person likes to cross anybody's picket line, but when it is your job, it must be done.
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Western Federation of Miners - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (en.wikipedia.org)The Western Federation of Miners (WFM) was a radical labor union that gained a reputation for militancy in the mines of the western United States and British Columbia.
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Indonesian nickel firm Inco's CEO to retire in March (www.miningweekly.com)The president director of Indonesian nickel firm PT International Nickel Indonesia said on Tuesday he will tender his resignation in March.
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Nationalization talk puts miners on edge - (www.theglobeandmail.com)Proposal by influential youth wing of South Africa's ruling party causing anxiety among Canadian and other foreign mining firms
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AnMar Mechanical & Electrical Contractors Ltd. (www.anmarmechanical.com)Operating from our new 70,000 sq. Ft. Facility and with our partner companies, Talos Steel a specialty machining company and CASTEC Inc. that specializes in refractory linings and furnace rebuilds we service the metals industry and heavy industrial on a world-wide basis.
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William Day Construction Environmental Registry (www.ebr.gov.on.ca)This proposal is for a new Certificate of Approval (Air) for William Day Construction Limited, located in Sudbury, Ontario.The facility is a mobile crushing plant used to process ore, gravel or blasted rock material.
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Vale Inco to ramp up production at Coleman, Creighton mines (www.thesudburystar.com)Vale Inco is going to increase its mining activity locally in order to provide more feed for its back-in-operation Copper Cliff Smelter complex."We did send out a notice (Monday) to managers to cascade the rest of their staff," Vale Inco spokesman Steve Ball said Tuesday
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Sudbury business advances deep mine technology with Vale Inco | (www.northernontariobusiness.com)By 2010, Kelly Lake may be the site of a brand new technologically advanced Vale Inco mine
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Strike at World’s Largest Nickel Mine (www.socialistproject.ca)In France’s south Pacific colony of New Caledonia, a small delegation of Vale Inco strikers from Sudbury, in Northeastern Ontario, most of them Franco-Ontarians, met in October with the union at the island’s Vale Inco nickel mine, due to open in 2010 although it threatens a UNESCO nature reserve.
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In an era of climate change, energy experts often talk about nuclear power as a carbon-neutral source of electricity compared with coal-generated electricity.
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Vale Inco Newfoundland and Labrador (www.thesudburystar.com)Vale Inco's decision to resume production in Voisey's Bay during a strike is an in-your-eye gesture to Steelworkers, says the director of the union for Ontario and the Atlantic provinces.
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Non-striking workers to restart mine in Voisey's Bay, N.L. a (ca.news.yahoo.com)The company said Monday it will begin training non-striking employees to do the work of striking miners as both sides in the labour dispute continued to accuse each other of bad-faith bargaining.
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Vale Inco restarts smelter operations during strike (www.thesudburystar.com)It's official.Vale Inco Ltd. has resumed partial production at the Copper Cliff Smelter Complex, in the seventh month of a strike by its production and maintenance workers.
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New consultations to begin on Mining Act (www.fftimes.com)Broad-based consultations with First Nation and Métis communities, mineral industry stakeholders, and interested members of the public will be held from January-June in many northern communities
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Vale Inco starts activities in Yemen (www.thesudburystar.com)Vale Inco, the second largest mining company in the world, has started activities in Yemen, exploring copper and nickel.
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: Australia and Globally (lifeincva.blogspot.com)Uranium is unstable – it decays into slightly lighter elements, which are also unstable and further decay. The process of decay releases energy and a small atomic particle, and is known as radioactivity.
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Vale Inco files suit against nine striking workers (www.thesudburystar.com)
Vale Inco Ltd. has taken the unprecedented step of suing nine individual striking Steelworkers for damages ranging from $75,000 to $120,000 for alleged actions on picket lines.
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Mexican Activist Murdered for Opposing Canadian Mining Company (www.canadians.org)Mr. Abarca was an important member of the community who had suffered threats, prison and violence due to his opposition to the mining activities of Calgary-based Blackfire Exploration.
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From Mining to the moon (www.thesudburystar.com)About a year-and-half ago, we put together a plan to start to look at what kind of mining activities might take place on the moon," Boucher said.NORCAT worked with NASA and the Canadian Space Agency with the results culminating to this week's testing in Garson.
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Vale Inco to fire up Clarabelle this week (www.thesudburystar.com)Production is expected to resume this week at Vale Inco's Clarabelle Mill, which will be staffed by management, staff and non-striking union employees.Striking United Steelworkers were told Friday the mining giant was ready to start partial production at some of its plants this week, using some USW Local 2020 members to do the work.
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'Underground' film spotlights mining (www.thesudburystar.com)Six countries, seven weeks of shooting and $3 million is what it took to make the 22-minute-long Ground Rules.The Science North production, produced and directed by Sudbury's John Milne, showcases mining practices and more sustainable ways to pull ore from the ground around the world.
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Mines and Communities (www.minesandcommunities.org)The MAC website exposes the social, economic, and environmental impacts of mining, particularly as they affect Indigenous and land-based peoples. Global in scope, the site was set up in 2001 by organisations and individuals from seven different countries
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Sudbury mining flick debuts at Cinéfest (www.northernlife.ca)John Milne’s latest project, Ground Rules, will be debuting at Sudbury’s Cinéfest Sept. 25 at 12:30 p.m.The film focuses on the cultural and economic influences of mining in eight countries, which Milne said he feels will hit close to home with a Sudbury audience.He turned the focus of his lens to Creighton Mine, and said he was fortunate enough to get into the mine before the recent strike
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NORCAT Grand Opening (www.northernlife.ca)NORCAT`S Sudbury operations are now under one roof. NORCAT`s Innovation and Commercialization Park had its grand opening Friday morning at 1545 Maley Drive.
http://www.norcat.org/
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