BHP, the London-listed mining giant, released its half-year profit earnings this morning.
Their net profit for June-December 2018 increased to $3.8 billion, up 90 percent from the last half of 2017.
But it comes at …
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Vigil for Brazil’s communities affected by Brumadinho disaster
In sadness and rage, please join us outside the Embassy of Brazil in solidarity with the communities affected by Brazil’s Brumadinho tailings dam disaster on Wednesday 6th February.
On Friday January 25th, in the state …
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London Mining Network comment on mining waste disaster in Brazil
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 …
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African descent families occupy Cerrejon mine in Colombia to demand their rights
On Wednesday, 16 January 2019, 50 people from the community of Roche staged a non-violent occupation of part of the vast Cerrejon coal mine – owned by London-listed multinationals Anglo American, BHP and Glencore – …
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The sound and the fury: yet another GCM AGM
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, …
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Protest against GCM Resources at its AGM on 28 December
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 …
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London Mining Network submits evidence to UK Parliamentary inquiry
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 …
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Two activists at the AGM of a ‘Junior’ mining company: a ‘Dud’ and a ‘Borderline Fruitcake’
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 …
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“You have failed us”: report on the London AGM of BHP, 17 October 2018
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 …
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Three years of mud and struggle
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 …
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Tabaco has grown tired of waiting
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 …
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Event with Nonhle Mbuthuma: the right to say no to mining
Hosted by Decolonising Environmentalism
at SOAS University of London,
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG.
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