Mongolian environmentalists  ask increasing number questions regarding handling of nuclear issues, especially in connection with Dornod-Uranium agreement with Russia. Looks like they have good reason for it -  lately Mongolian nuclear deals and associated scandals happen every month if not more frequently. Two latest stories follow:
EC funds for safety issues in uranium mining […]

We closely followed crusade, arrest and days in jail of our Mongolian  colleagues. Below collection of news clippings day by day
June  21, 2011
Gal Undesten delivers demand note to seven mining companies
Gal Undesten Union yesterday told journalists that it has delivered demand notes to seven mining companies in Selenge and Darkhan-Uul aimags in the […]

This summer Mongolia experiences tremendous fuel shortages. In a long term oil-exporting country should be able to provide for itself. So recent decision to develop oil refinery in Dornod Aimag seems very logical, though  associated with certain environmental risks. Continuous attempts to reduce environmental and social losses from operations of Petrochina and other chinese oil-exporting […]

Sun Shuning was found guilty of deliberately hitting a man with his forklift truck during a protest last month over pollution from a coal mine.Earlier this month, another truck driver was sentenced to death for killing an ethnic Mongolian herder.
The herder’s death sparked protests across the northern Chinese region.
The herder, named Mergen, was with about […]

On June 21st Tsetsegee Munkhbayar, N. Sambuu-Yondon, D. Tumurbaatar and M. Baatarkhuyag have been arrested and are now detained at the Gants Khudag detention centre. As of June 29th the detainees have not been provided access to lawyers and allowed meetings with their family members.
Detention decision is available only for Mr. Ts. Munkhbayar, who was […]

China is planning to build cross-border wetlands and nature reserves in its northeastern provinces to protect precious bird and fish species, the Minister of Environment Protection Zhou Shengxian said Thursday.The wetlands and nature reserves will be built at the lower reaches of such transnational rivers as the Amur-Heilongjiang River, Ussury-Wusuli River and Tumen River, Zhou […]

Following recent protests, authorities in Inner Mongolia announced plans to review local coal mining activities on June 1.Local authorities in China’s Inner Mongolia have launched a month-long overhaul on the coal mining industry which started June 1, according to Inner Mongolia Daily
Pan Yiyang, vice governor of the autonomous region, called for an immediate environmental assessment […]

In the wake of  ecological protests in Inner Mongolia RwB reposts old article by Stephen Chen from SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST that shows how current crisis has been developing over years.
Trust an artist to know beauty when he sees it. That’s why it was good to know the timing was right for […]

Protests erupt after Mongolian herder run over by coal truck as he tries to stop mining convoy driving across prairie land.
Outside the closed gates of the Xilingol Mongolian high school, Chinese police watch warily as hundreds of students perform calisthenics in a yard from where the previous day they left to march through […]

Giant mining projects in South Gobi will require water supply, which could be obtained either from under the ground or by constructing  pipelines to transfer water from Kherlen and Orkhon rivers.  It looks like WB continues to promote the use of groundwater. RwB

On May 10, 2011  the World Bank ’s Board of […]