Guest blog by Emma Banks, Vanderbilt University The children of La Guajira, Colombia are dying of malnutrition. On August 9, civil society groups will come together in the “Marcha de Mantas Rojas” – a follow-up to the Mantas Negras protest and the May 1...
Open letter to the President of Cerrejón Coal and the Chairmen and Chief Executive Officers of Anglo American, BHP Billiton and Glencore 7 June 2016 Roberto Junguito, President, Cerrejón Coal Sir John Parker, Chairman, Anglo American Mark Cutifani, Chief Executive,...
BHP Billiton and its Brazilian multinational partner Vale have been hit with a $44 billion lawsuit over the deadly dam burst last November. Brazilian prosecutors have filed a civil lawsuit for 155 billion reais (just over $44 billion) against the companies. Experts...
By Richard Solly, Co-ordinator, London Mining Network, and member of Colombia Solidarity Campaign My colleague from LMN, Richard Harkinson, and I joined friends from Move Your Money at the AGM of international bank HSBC on Friday 22 April. I was surprised and,...
For earlier updates, see https://londonminingnetwork.org/2016/02/updates-on-bhp-billitons-brazilian-dam-disaster/. BHP agrees to $US2.3b Samarco settlement BHP Billiton’s Samarco joint venture will pay up to $US2.3 billion ($A3.15 billion) over six years after...
