Miners and energy companies in most parts of the world are only too aware that suspicion (if not blame) for any health or environmental issue of uncertain or...

Plaintiffs celebrate a court victory against an oil block concession in Ecuador (source phys.org) While in Ecuador last month to document a client project's ...

I was inspired to write on this topic after reading the article “NGOs, do they sometimes cross the line, and what can you do about it?” http://goo.gl/Z4qvgh ...

(photo source: www.ledcor.com) As a moderator for the Canadian Institute of Mining’s (CIM) Stakeholder Dialogue Series, I’ve facilitated a number of discussi...

In today’s challenged financing and commodities price environment extractive companies must be more careful than ever when allocating budgets and resources. ...

photo source: The National Post Canada made international headlines in October when 6 RCMP vehicles were torched outside of sleepy Rexton New Brunswick. It ...

I had the privilege of attending Canadian Business for Social Responsibility’s (CBSR) recent webinar on the “Transformational Company: Supply Chain and Indus...

(photo source: notiagen) Colombia was the new darling of mining investors starting in the middle of the last decade. During eight years under the former pre...

Micro-finance at one time was considered a silver bullet for jumpstarting economic development in impoverished communities (much in the same way formalizing ...

photo: Yanta, Piura, Peru As I finally got this website up and running, I went through some of my old-field photos and found a picture of a more youthful me ...