Peru uses emergency rules to end violent protests at Xstrata mine
Protesters in the Peruvian province of Espinar have accused Xstrata’s Tintaya mine of causing pollution, and demanded an increase in donations that the company …
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Deaths in protests against Xstrata in Peru
Call to support Indonesian anti-mining day
Action Alert from JATAM (Indonesian mining advocacy network)
Among London-listed mining companies active in Indonesia are Rio Tinto, BHP Billiton and Churchill Mining.
Support ANTI MINING DAY (HATAM) Commemoration, 29 May 2012
INDONESIAN SOVEREIGNTY WITHOUT …
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Philippines: Getting away with murder
The case against Mario Kingo, for murdering environmental activist Councillor Armin Marin while on an anti-mining mission in October 2007, has concluded. In a decision that outrages other activists, Kingo has been handed down only …
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Indian Minister scraps lecture rather than “face accusers”
This past month hasn’t augured well for proponents of disastrous mining ventures in the Indian state of Orissa. First, London-listed Vedanta Resources gets rebuffed by two leading UK safety watchdogs – just as a top …
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Should PLUS Go MINUS?
London Calling says it must!
In February 2012, the PLUS markets group plc announced it would be selling its stock exchange, PLUS-SX. Set up six years ago in London as a “halfway house for small …
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Outsourced Chilean Copper Workers “21st Century Slave Labour”
“Temporary and subcontracted workers in the copper industry are the slave labour of the 21st century. Lacking rights and social protection, they are vulnerable and defenceless,” complained Cristián Cuevas, the leader of a union for …
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Mining companies don’t seem bothered by being corrupt
According to a new survey by the accountancy firm, Ernst & Young, over half the companies they contacted in India are willing to provide “entertainment” to win business. Sixty percent of Indonesian firms are also …
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London Mining plc Annual General Meeting
London Mining plc (no connection with London Mining Network) has projects in Sierra Leone, Colombia and Greenland. Representatives of London Mining Network attended the AGM on behalf of colleagues at the National Movement for Justice …
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EPA Report Outlines Potential Pebble Mine Risks
Large stretches of salmon-spawning streams and thousands of acres of wetlands would be wiped out if a large-scale mining project were to be built in southwestern Alaska’s copper-rich Bristol Bay region, according to a report …
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Holding Shell to account at its AGM
Activists from groups including LMN member UK Tar sands Network challenged Shell on its projects in the Alberta Tar Sands.
On the destruction of rights, human health and the environment, we heard from Ben Powless …
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Bonfire of Promises
The UK government’s new energy bill puts a match to its climate change commitments.