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 …
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Berkeley Energia uranium mining project in Spain ‒ the EU’s only new uranium mine?
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 …
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Antofagasta AGM 2018: Half-answers to very few questions
Report on the Antofagasta AGM, London, Wednesday 23 May 2018
by Richard Solly, Co-ordinator, London Mining Network
Chairman’s address
Chairman Jean-Paul Luksic said that it was a pleasure to be here in London with their …
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London event, 8 June 2018: Carnival for Water – Life – Territory in Colombia
Picket outside Colombian embassy in solidarity with environmental defenders
Carnival for Water – Life – Territory
8 June from 3:30pm – 5pm
3 Hans Crescent
London SW1X 0LN
Nearest tube: Knightsbridge station
Let’s stand with …
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Open letter on Berkeley’s impending move to London Stock Exchange
AIM regulation London Stock Exchange
Cc Financial Conduct Authority
Re Berkeley Energia
We are concerned with the potential significance of the recently announced moves of the AIM registered company Berkeley to seek full LSE listing …
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National Alliance of People’s Movements condemns killings of anti-Sterilite protesters
On 22 May, nine people were killed in Tuticorin, Southern India, during protests demanding closure of a Sterlite copper plant over pollution concerns.
Residents of Tuticorin town have been demanding closure of the London-listed Vedanta
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Bribery, corruption surrounds Antofagasta ahead of AGM
It is annual general meeting season for the many London-listed mining companies enjoying the spoils of extractive operations in mostly global majority countries such as Brazil, SouthAfrica, Colombia and Chile. It is when suits and …
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VIDEO: We demand justice for Marikana
In March 2018, Community leader Thumeka Magwangqana, lawyer Andries Nkome and Reverend Johannes Seoka travelled to London to attend mining company Lonmin’s Annual general meeting, that was held on 15 March. In the AGM, they …
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County Durham residents take direct action against new opencast
Local residents block potential opencast coal site risking arrest to protect their community
This morning (15/05/18) two Durham residents living just 300m from the controversial Bradley opencast coal extraction, blocked the gates to the work …
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Smiling, frowning, and elephants in the room: the 2018 Anglo American AGM
Report on the Anglo American AGM 8 May 2018
By Richard Solly, Co-ordinator, London Mining Network
With assistance from Ana Bolena Chamie, Andy Whitmore, Benjamin Hitchcock, Paul Robson, Seb Ordonez and Sunit Bagree.
Introduction
1. …
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Death threats against critics of Anglo American’s Minas-Rio project in Brazil
On the eve of Anglo American’s 2018 AGM on 8 May, threats continue against critics of its Minas Rio iron ore mine in Brazil.
At last year’s AGM representatives of the Churches and Mining Network …
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Glencore’s Casino Trial: A Tragi-comic affair
By Andy Whitmore, London Mining Network
Glencore held its Annual General Meeting in the Theater-Casino in the sleepy Swiss lake-side town of Zug on 2 May. I have been to many major mining company AGMs …
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