BHP Billiton: undermining the future
Alternative Report on world’s biggest mining company BHP Billiton, the world’s largest diversified resources company – producing oil as well as coal, copper, diamonds, iron ore, manganese, nickel, uranium and a number of other minerals – boasts of a strong reputation for corporate responsibility. Communities affected by its operations may well believe that such a [...]
World’s largest mining company challenged at AGM
Thursday 29 October 2009 “While you are getting a good standard of life … we Wayuu are eating food contaminated with coal … Why, when you have money in your bank accounts, why are our people living in worse conditions?” – Karmen Ramirez, Wayuu from Colombia A number of community activists and shareholders raised issues [...]
BHP Billiton: image and reality
Briefing for the BHP Billiton plc Annual General Meeting, 23 October 2008 BHP Billiton is the largest mining company in the world. Jointly listed on the London and Australian Stock Exchanges, it has a market capitalization of 180 billion US dollars, more than twice the size of its nearest rival, Brazil’s Vale Inco. In the [...]
