AECI yesterday elevated Kagiso Tiso, the black economic empowerment (BEE) partner in its mining explosives subsidiary, to a shareholder of the holding company, and ...
Having alerted the world to the dangers of deep-sea drilling in the Arctic, Greenpeace brought its in-your-face brand of activism home yesterday when it dumped 5 ...
ArcelorMittal South Africa will hav spent R3. 8-billion in the decade to 2015 on projects to cut pollution from operations on top of a worst-case legacy cost of ...
The Ayigobi consortium hoped to remain the black economic empowerment partner of ArcelorMittal South Africa, despite a setback in the steel maker’s relations with ...
Eskom reassured electricity customers yesterday that it had a fall-back plan to keep the lights on this winter, even as it anticipated record peak demand last night ...
Employment services company Adcorp reported flat headline earnings for the year to February yesterday and conceded that the year had been challenging as a result ...
Mineral Resources Minister Susan Shabangu might consider a request to intervene in the proposed sale of De Beers’ Namaqualand mine to Trans Hex and other parties. ...
The department of Environmental Affairs has proposed a set of compliance criteria specifically for wind farms - but will not apply the standard retroactively to ...
The mineral processing and renewable energy industries would be among the first big beneficiaries of a R102-billion five-year investment plan by the Industrial Development ...
Environmental and rights groups said on Wednesday that separate and unequal environmental rules for mines were “no longer defensible”.
Groups opposing shale gas mining bids by Shell and other explorers in the Karoo yesterday asked the government to immediately end these plans and ban any future ...
The government on Tuesday released long-awaited proposals for implementing cleaner fuel standards by 2017.
Sasol’s penalties for breaching competition laws since 2008 on Monday tallied R4. 06-billion - not counting possible fines arising from unfinished competition probes. ...
The Mpumalanga Tourism and Parks Agency has received 1 775 mining and prospecting applications since 2005, raising concerns about acid mine drainage in South Africa’s ...
The government’s proposed carbon tax could earn R82. 5 billion a year for the fiscus, or 12 percent of South Africa’s estimated tax collections in the year to March, ...
Environmental groups are planning legal action to force ArcelorMittal South Africa to publish a secret eight-year-old environmental “masterplan”.
For some time, the state has withheld two pieces of information with significance for mining along the Wild Coast of the Eastern Cape. Under much pressure, the government ...
Nestle has announced a three-pronged investment in South Africa of R505-million.
Sasol will pull the plug on a proposed coal-to-liquids facility in Indonesia as it plans to focus on making fuel from gas.
BP and Shell, the co-owners of South Africa’s biggest refinery, propose the state takes a share in their joint venture.
Agricultural research produced in partnership with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation concluded last week that Africa should stop relying on just a handful of ...
President Jacob Zuma’s BEE advisory council is examining whether stricter criteria should be imposed on small enterprises.
Wednesday’s fuel price hike will lift petrol prices 12 percent higher than a year ago.
The listing woes of Awethu Breweries and SA French continued into 2011.
Environmental groups that complained to the JSE about nine companies on the 2010 Socially Responsible Investment index have kept up the pressure.