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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Archive | Documents
Ten years on from the independent evaluation of Cerrejon Coal
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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When You Strike the Women, You Strike A Rock
Learning from women’s organising in apartheid South Africa to present-day ahead of the sixth anniversary of 2012’s Marikana Massacre
By Yula Burin
Marikana Solidarity Collective marked South Africa’s Women’s Day on 9 August 2018 with …
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PRESS RELEASE: Spanish campaigners call Atalaya Mining to account
Mining and Repression in Eritrea: corporate complicity in human rights abuses
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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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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Mimika’s Coastal Dystopia – report
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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Press release – Marikana pushes for accountability from Lonmin before takeover
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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UN Body warns of more mining waste disasters, unless safety improves
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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Mining waste threatens people and planet, says UN
A new UNEP report summary “Mine Tailings Storage: Safety Is No Accident” finds mining waste dams threaten people and the environment.
An international coalition of non-governmental organizations – London Mining Network, Earthworks, MiningWatch Canada …
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