by Richard | Feb 27, 2019 | News
Press release from CAJAR, Colectivo de Abogados Jose Alvear Restrepo, Bogota, Colombia, Friday 22 January 2019 (Unofficial translation from Spanish original) Cerrejon Coal is owned by London-listed companies Anglo American, BHP and Glencore. Legal action against...
by Lydia | Jan 26, 2019 | News
The catastrophic spill from Brazilian company Vale’s Brumadinho mining waste dam in Minas Gerais state is the second massive waste dam collapse in Brazil in recent years. The last one was at Mariana, in the same state, in November 2015, at the Samarco iron ore mine...
by Richard | Dec 28, 2018 | News
Report by Richard Solly, Co-ordinator, London Mining Network I suspect that GCM Resources management thought that if they held their AGM this year on 28 December, deep in the heart of the Christmas-New Year break, protesters would stay away and they could have a quiet...
by Richard | Dec 21, 2018 | News
Our friends at Phulbari Solidarity Group and Committee to Protect Resources of Bangladesh, UK branch, are planning a protest at the AGM of GCM Resources, which continues lobbying to be allowed to construct a huge opencast coal mine at Phulbari in northwestern...
by Richard | Dec 21, 2018 | News
The UK Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Select Committee is currently conducting an inquiry called ‘Global Britain and South America‘. London Mining Network has submitted evidence on the impact of some London-listed mining companies on communities and...
by Richard | Dec 14, 2018 | News
Art work: Clara Atkinson, artist-activist Back in the summer, friends of ours from organisations in Spain attended the London AGM of Atalaya. Elena Solis, from Ecologistas en Accion, has written some reflections on the experience – which was not a pleasant one!...
by Richard | Nov 8, 2018 | News
Full report on the AGM by Richard Solly, Co-ordinator, London Mining Network 1. There is a webcast of the introductory speeches by Chairman Ken MacKenzie and CEO Andrew Mackenzie at https://edge.media-server.com/m6/p/gesyeeo5 (registration is necessary). BHP no longer...
by Richard | Nov 5, 2018 | News
For the third anniversary of the Samarco tailings dam disaster, our friends in the Movement of People Affected by Dams in Brazil have issued a declaration: From the river to the sea, they will not silence us: 3 years of mud and...
by Richard | Oct 31, 2018 | News
On 17 October, while we in London were at the AGM of the world’s largest mining multinational, BHP, our friends from the small farming community of Tabaco in La Guajira, Colombia, undertook an occupation of the land that they were promised in 2008 as the site...
by Richard | Oct 23, 2018 | News
Hosted by Decolonising Environmentalism at SOAS University of London, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H...