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The Rivers are Bleeding: British mining in Latin America
The vast expansion of mega-mining projects in Latin America is displacing indigenous communities, destroying local ecosystems, and costing lives and livelihoods.
In a new report, War …
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Immediately before the 2018 BHP London AGM, we publish a summary of five cases where BHP has left behind severe environmental damage – and one case where if it goes ahead with a project, it …
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Armed eviction of the residents of Tabaco, La Guajira, Colombia, 9 August 2001
Ten years ago, the report of an Independent Panel of Inquiry into the impacts of Cerrejon Coal was published. Cerrejon is Latin …
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By Yula Burin
Marikana Solidarity Collective marked South Africa’s Women’s Day on 9 August 2018 with …
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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’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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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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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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Indonesian organisation AEER, coordinated by LMN partner Pius Ginting, has just launched this report into mining waste (tailings) at Grasberg mine, a controversial mine in occupied West Papua, co-owned by British-Australian Rio Tinto …
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JOINT PRESS RELEASE – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 12/03/18
Community leader, bishop and lawyer representing workers at Marikana, South Africa, visit London 12-16 March to hold platinum mining company Lonmin to account over 2012 Massacre
Lonmin …
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The aftermath of Brazil’s 2015 Samarco mining waste disaster. Image by Paul Robson
The full UNEP report into mining waste disasters has been released today, following October’s assessment summary of the report.
An international …
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