Gaia Foundation press release, Thursday 15th December 2011
Yesterday in Central London a silent protest took place outside the General Meeting of Shareholders of Australian mining company, Coal of Africa Ltd (CoAL). The protest was …
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Silent Protest Held in Support of Communities of Limpopo
PICKET IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE FIGHT FOR LIFE AND WATER IN CAJAMARCA AND ALL OF PERU.
NO TO THE CONGA PROJECT!
CONGA NO WAY! YES TO LIFE, NO TO THE MINE!
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Time: 2:00pm until 5:00pm
The Peruvian Embassy
52 Sloane Street, London SW1X 9SP
Organisers: MOVIMIENTO 22 …
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Cerrejon adopts human rights policy
Cerrejon Coal, a joint venture of London-listed Anglo American, BHP Billiton and Xstrata, has adopted a human rights policy. It remains to be seen how closely the company will live up to it. If …
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Please urge your MP to sign Early Day Motion 2396 on Cerrejon Coal
Jeremy Corbyn MP and others have tabled an Early Day Motion calling on the UK Government to support the demands of communities affected by the Cerrejon coal mine in Colombia, jointly owned by London-listed mining …
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PICKET!! STOP LA COLOSA GOLD MINE
2pm on FRIDAY 14 OCTOBER at the Colombian Embassy at 3 Hans Crescent, London, SW1X 0LN.
Nearest tube: Knightsbridge.
Organised by:
Colombia Solidarity Campaign
Movimiento 22
COLOMBIA, the second most BIODIVERSE country in the world, …
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Australia approves $20-30bn BHP Billiton’s Olympic Dam mine expansion
Global diversified miner BHP Billiton moved a step closer to expanding its large-scale Olympic Dam copper and uranium mine in Australia on Monday, after securing environmental approvals for the project.
See http://www.mineweb.com/mineweb/view/mineweb/en/page72068?oid=137155&sn=Detail&pid=92730 and
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/10/bhpbilliton-idUSL3E7LA0FA20111010.…
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Smalley village needs your support now!
Re: Lodge House opencast expansion, planning application CM6/0910/94 to extract an additional 748,000 tonnes of coal from an extension to the mine adjacent to the village:
Derbyshire County Council as the Mineral Planning Authority, had …
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Tar sands update
UK Tar Sands Network tells us: The last month has seen a burst of action against the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, with 1,252 people arrested during two weeks of sit-ins in front of …
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Please get your MP to sign EDM 2076 on AngloGold Ashanti in Colombia
LMN member group Colombia Solidarity Campaign is very concerned about the possibility of the largest open cast gold mine in South America being built at Cajamarca in Colombia.
If you live in the UK, please …
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UK jewellery giants in spotlight over dirty gold
Channel 4’s current affairs programme Dispatches has gone undercover to investigate the gold sold through some of the high street’s biggest jewellery retailers. The programme was presented by Deirdre Bounds, who went campaigning on the …
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Guatemala: why doesn’t the government close Marlin down?
Goldcorp’s Marlin mine in Guatemala is getting to be the most criticised in Latin America – and one of the most divisive too. International bodies are lining up to demand a close down, while Goldcorp …
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