by Lydia | Aug 9, 2019 | News
On 9 August 2001 the Afro-Descendant community of Tabaco was forcibly displaced from their ancestral land to give way to the biggest open cast coal mine in Latin America: Cerrejon. The mine is currently owned by Anglo American, BHP and Glencore, three multinational...
by Richard | Jul 20, 2019 | News
Senator Jorge Robledo at the hearing in Riohacha On Monday 9 July, representatives of LMN member group Colombia Solidarity Campaign, Swiss NGO Aktionsgruppe Schweiz Kolumbien, US-based North Shore Colombia Solidarity and other international observers attended an event...
by Richard | Jul 8, 2019 | News
The following open letter was sent on Monday 8 July 2019 to Cerrejon Coal and its multinational corporate owners Coal mining in Colombia: Diversion of the Arroyo Bruno and fulfilment of Constitutional Court Sentence SU-698 of 2017 We are writing to express our deep...
by Lydia | Jul 8, 2019 | Press Releases
Press release: 08/07/19 (Spanish press release below) Colombia, La Guajira: British mining multinational is diverting vital water source for massive coal extraction, despite a Constitutional Court ruling for community consultation For two years, mining company...
by Lydia | Jul 1, 2019 | News
Government entities and Carbones del Cerrejón disregard the orders and guidelines of the Constitutional Court for the exploitation and diversion of the Bruno, the last great tributary of the Ranchería River in La Guajira On June 5-6th 2019, the Inter-institutional...
