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Kamchatka's economy has collapsed in the wake of perestroika, as subsidies from the central government have dried up. Corruption is rampant, with poachers depleting the region's vast fisheries. Nature preserves are under threat from mining and energy projects. Electricity is frequently shut down, even during the brutal winters...
DIED. LORD HASLAM, 79, working class mining engineer who rose to the top of his profession as chairman of state-run monoliths British Coal and British Steel; in Virginia Water, England. Admired by miners for his self-deprecatory manner, Haslam was made a life peer in 1990.
But getting to my camel camp of choice run by Explore the Outback (www.austcamel.com.au/explore.htm) turned out to be a trek in itself. I hitched a ride on the twice-weekly mail truck from the South Australian opal-mining town of Coober Pedy to Warriner, a long-abandoned railway depot...
Some Vermonters argue that mining, while it may be a messy business, is literally in the state's veins and that Omya at least tries to mitigate some of its impact. Says Jerome Breton, 69, who lives on a 200-acre dairy farm adjacent to the Omya property: "This is...
For now, the global economic slowdown may give Danby a reprieve, with Omya content to wait a year or two before submitting a new drilling plan. "Mining is a long-range business," says Reddy. "We like to think 50 years ahead." That, of course, is what many of Omya's...