Four in five UK adults support new laws to tackle environmental harm and human rights abuses in company supply chains
New research shows that four in five adults in the UK support new laws requiring companies to prevent serious environmental harm and human rights abuses in their operations or supply chains. The survey of 2,124 UK adults by the polling company YouGov, released today...
29 April – Who Controls the Land?
Join us on 29 April as we’re joined by Luis Acevedo and Bonnie VandeSteeg from the People’s Land Policy for a discussion on land rights and mega mining in Latin America and beyond. Meet Luis Acevedo Luis Acevedo is the president of the trade association of...
Rio Tinto: are you listening, or just continuing the policy of ‘dialogue to death’?
Report on the Rio Tinto plc AGM, London, 4 April 2024 Introduction i) Two issues featured particularly prominently in this year’s Rio Tinto plc AGM: water and listening. ii) The issues raised by friends and allies of London Mining Network all involved water in one way...
International Campaigners tell Rio Tinto to Get Serious About Water!
Key points: 23 million people globally suffer from the impacts of existing contamination of soil and water as a result of mine tailings and mine wastewater. Campaigners and communities from six countries are coming together in London to pressure Rio Tinto to take...
Rio Tinto, Get Serious About Water!
With some 23 million people already suffering globally from the impacts of existing toxic water contamination as a result of mine tailings and wastewater, and this number likely to increase with the exponential increase of mineral extraction for the energy transition,...
Could Red Eagle’s loss in Santurbán mean a victory if Colombia quits the ISDS System?
The following is a translation of a statement made by the International Mission to #StopISDS. See the original statement in Spanish on CAJAR’s website here. This translation was first posted by MiningWatch Canada. “Foreign investors use the dispute...
LMN statement on IRP GRO 2024
On 1 March 2024, the International Resource Panel (IRP) launched an update of its 2019 Global Resources Outlook (GRO) report. The report covers the increasing demands for metals and minerals, which will of course mean more mining. Here is LMN’s statement on the...
12 March – Rejeitos (Tailings): Film screening
In recent years, two mining tailings dams broke in the state of Minas Gerais, causing Brazil’s worst ever socio-environmental disasters. Hundreds were killed, millions were affected. Communities were displaced and two main rivers became mud, flooding the...
14 March – Resisting Mining Book Club: The Bauxite Strike
LMN is delighted to announce our second Resisting Mining Book Club of 2024 with guest speakers Matthew Quest and Ryan Cecil Jobson, who will be speaking about Eusi Kwayana’s classic work The Bauxite Strike and the Old Politics (AK Press, 1972) and its resonance for...
We’re Taking London Metal Exchange to Court
Last week, London Mining Network (supported by the Global Legal Action Network (GLAN)) have filed a landmark legal action at the UK High Court against the London Metal Exchange (LME or Exchange). We’re arguing that, by enabling the global sale of ‘dirty metals’,...