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

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

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?” h...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...