Illegal artisanal mining is already impacting several of the sites and the attribution of new oil and mining concessions could threaten their World Heritage status.
In the 1970s the brothers began focusing on oil and mining, through Earth Resources, and also ran Bonanza Steakhouses.
Companies in retail, oil and mining will be the big listers this year.
Workers themselves are another problem: with labour in short supply, oil and mining firms are poaching staff from one another.
As many as three dozen countries, in Africa and elsewhere, agreed to publish details of payments from oil and mining companies.
Oil and mining companies were hit with falling commodity prices as fears mount that the global economy will stall due to weak demand from developed economies.
They also point out that the FTSE 100 has been hampered, lately, by the fact that about a quarter of its market value is tied up in the oil and mining sector.
Brazilian investor and owner of a number of oil and mining companies, Eike Batista, will probably forever be known as the man who helped bring the 2016 Summer Olympics to Rio de Janeiro.
All this, it is feared, will dent the profits of big oil and mining firms, stoke inflation and imperil the West's access to resources that it needs just as much as China does.
Furthermore, we will learn how SAP is partnering with the German Development Organization (GIZ) to support Ghana in meeting the global standard for transparency in the oil and mining industries set by the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative.
The province estimates it needs 90, 000 immigrants over the next decade to fill jobs in industries like oil, potash mining and farming.
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It's true that mining oil sands is terribly inefficient and wasteful of water and natural gas when compared with pumping crude from conventional reservoirs.
As it pumps out many more gadgets, the consumer-electronics industry is starting to attract the kind of scrutiny typically reserved for oil companies and mining firms.
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Cummins blamed the weak results on little demand from oil, gas and mining companies.
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Alan Garcia, as president from 2006-2011, opened up the Amazon to mining and oil exploration and drilling.
Congress included a few favored ones you might not think of as manufacturing--mining, oil extraction and engineering.
Private companies in the oil and gas, mining, construction and other industries also rely on generators for power.
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Cummins notched a sharp drop in quarterly profit, driven lower by decreased demand from oil, gas and mining customers.
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Trusts that own oil sands can keep mining their tar deposits for decades.
As it stands, Russia is dependent on the oil, gas and mining industries.
Bakrie-controlled companies cover the breadth of Indonesia's economy, including mining, oil and gas, palm oil, property, telecommunications and finance.
And most of this is from mining and oil companies, which have little choice but to go where the minerals are.
To pay for all the reinstated goodies to oil and gas, mining, real estate and countless other interests, tax rates went up.
Altela provides on-site water desalination to mining and oil and gas companies.
Ecuador, a member of the Bolivarian Alliance, is one of the largest recipients of Chinese investment, particularly in the area of mining and oil.
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The outer islands will be allowed to collect and spend some of the revenue generated by their own oil, gas, mining, forestry and fisheries.
Long lead times persist for oil drilling rigs, mining equipment and some other specialized machinery, but generally companies face no supply limitations when considering expansion.
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If ratified by Congress, it will grant a Kingston, Jamaica-based International Seabed Authority (ISA) the power to regulate deep-sea oil exploration, seabed mining, and fishing rights.
That tale is, of course, about Brazilian fallen star billionaire Eike Batista, whose companies operate in several areas, including oil, energy, mining, real estate and entertainment.
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Second, the promise of less regulation, which could help certain sectors like coal mining and oil exploration that have been under the wrath of Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
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