by Richard | Oct 23, 2018 | Documents
The Rivers are Bleeding: British mining in Latin America The vast expansion of mega-mining projects in Latin America is displacing indigenous communities, destroying local ecosystems, and costing lives and livelihoods. In a new report, War on Want exposes the...
by Richard | Oct 15, 2018 | Documents
Immediately before the 2018 BHP London AGM, we publish a summary of five cases where BHP has left behind severe environmental damage – and one case where if it goes ahead with a project, it may do so again. If you can’t see the report above, download the...
by Richard | Sep 17, 2018 | Documents
Armed eviction of the residents of Tabaco, La Guajira, Colombia, 9 August 2001 Ten years ago, the report of an Independent Panel of Inquiry into the impacts of Cerrejon Coal was published. Cerrejon is Latin America’s largest open cast coal mine, and is owned by...
by Lydia | Aug 9, 2018 | Documents, Events
Learning from women’s organising in apartheid South Africa to present-day ahead of the sixth anniversary of 2012’s Marikana Massacre By Yula Burin Marikana Solidarity Collective marked South Africa’s Women’s Day on 9 August 2018 with a film...
by Richard | Jun 18, 2018 | Documents
London Mining Network member group Eritrea Focus has just published a report, Mining and Repression in Eritrea: corporate complicity in human rights abuses. The document, which is the first of its kind, pulls together information in the public domain to highlight the...
by Richard | Jun 11, 2018 | Documents, News
Berkeley Energia’s planned uranium mine in Retortillo, Spain, faces resistance from a growing movement of local people and allies from Portugal to France. Richard Harkinson from the London Mining Network assesses the Australian-incorporated, London-listed company’s...
by Lydia | Oct 17, 2017 | Documents, Press Releases
London Mining Network is releasing The River is Dead report today, two days before BHP’s annual general meeting on 19 October, about the Samarco dam disaster on 5th November 2015 which devastated communities all along the Rio Doce river system in Brazil. Around 1.4...
by Richard | Jul 24, 2017 | Documents
In April, 2017, London Mining Network hosted visitors from Brazil for the AGM of Anglo American plc. They spoke about the impacts of Anglo American’s Minas Rio iron ore project. Here is a briefing about that project and the problems that it has caused. Briefing...
by Liam Barrington-Bush | May 19, 2017 | Documents
New report highlights allegations of corruption, environmental damage and water depletion around Latin America’s largest mine waste tailings dam, owned by British miner Antofagasta, released the week of their 2017 London AGM. Read the full report here. London Mining...
by Whit | May 17, 2017 | Documents
Brexit talks may be rolling on, but the UK is still part of the EU for now. As such, London Mining Network has signed up to this new fact-sheet ‘We make the rules! How the EU intervenes in the fiscal policy of resource rich countries’, written by...