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A Barmecide Feast: legal action against BHP for the Samarco disaster

A Barmecide Feast: legal action against BHP for the Samarco disaster

by Richard | Nov 17, 2020 | News

By London Mining Network researcher Paul Robson A Barmecide Feast is a pretend or illusory act of generosity; and the beneficiary is supposed to be grateful for the fake generosity. It comes from a story in The Arabian Nights in which a prince invites a poor, starving...
Mining-affected communities remember, rise up, resist – and even investors are unnerved

Mining-affected communities remember, rise up, resist – and even investors are unnerved

by Richard | Nov 13, 2020 | Monthly bulletin

Dear friends, I hope you are all surviving the continued difficulties caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. We have recently published a major new report, Martial Mining, about the links between mining and militarism. We have also revised our popular education board game...
Indigenous people in Provincial, Colombia, ban Cerrejon Coal personnel from entering their community

Indigenous people in Provincial, Colombia, ban Cerrejon Coal personnel from entering their community

by Richard | Nov 12, 2020 | News

Wednesday, November 11, 2020 Press Release from the Committee of Defenders of the Territory of the Indigenous Reservation of Provincial and Jose Alvear Restrepo Lawyers’ Collective. (Read original Spanish text here.) Cerrejon Coal Mine lies and act in a...
A Barmecide Feast: legal action against BHP for the Samarco disaster

English justice frustrates the expectations of those affected by the Mariana tragedy

by Richard | Nov 10, 2020 | News

This is a translation of an article which appeared in Estado de Minas Gerais on 9 November 2020 The judgement in this case can be read here. LMN is dismayed by this further barrier to justice for the huge number of people affected by the Samarco disaster, a disaster...
Mining-affected communities remember, rise up, resist – and even investors are unnerved

MARIANA 5 YEARS ON: THE CRIME IS RENEWED (“O CRIME SE RENOVA”)

by Richard | Nov 4, 2020 | News

Press release from Caritas Minas Gerais, translated by London Mining Network On the fifth anniversary of Brazil’s biggest socio-environmental crime, projections in several cities of the country and actions in social networks denounce the slowness of the...
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