Colombia’s Cerrejon: four contractors die in accident
Colombia’s biggest coal exporter Cerrejon said on Thursday that four contractors had been killed and 12 others injured while repairing a coal-storage silo in the Andean nation. See http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N05169475.htm and http://laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=361947&CategoryId=12393.
DanWatch report on social & environmental impacts of Cerrejón coal mine in Colombia
In May 2010 DanWatch issued a report on the alleged negative social & environmental impacts of the Cerrejon coal mine in northern Colombia, which supplies coal to DONG Energy and Vattenfall. Lawyer Armando Perez, working on behalf of the community of Tabaco, which was forcibly removed for mine expansion in 2001, has written a letter [...]
Critical report on the Cerrejon Coal mine in Colombia
The Cerrejon mine is owned by three London-listed companies: Anglo American, BHP Billiton and Xstrata. In May 2010 Danish NGO DanWatch issued a report on the alleged negative social & environmental impacts of the mine, which supplies coal to DONG Energy and Vattenfall. For the report and the companies’ responses, see http://www.business-humanrights.org/Documents/DanWatchCerrejon.
Multinationals ‘on trial’ for mining activities in Colombia
Several multinational companies with activities in Colombia were ‘on trial’ in Madrid last weekend during the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal. Most cases deal with violations of human rights and liability for environmental degradation. They included the three London-listed companies which own the Cerrejon Coal mine: Anglo American, BHP Billiton and Xstrata. See http://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/9737-multinationals-on-trial-for-mining-activities-in-colombia.html.
Cerrejon Coal to increase exports
Colombia’s Cerrejon mining company will seek to increase coal exports to 32 million tonnes with more focus on shipments to Asia as demand in Europe slips, the company president said. Cerrejon, Colombia’s biggest exporter, is a joint venture owned equally by BHP Billiton, Anglo American and Xstrata. (This article suggests that the Cerrejon Coal mine [...]
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