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Media coverage of the BHP Billiton AGM
The issues raised around the BHP AGM by Angelica Ortiz and Luisa Rodriguez from Colombia were well covered by BBC Radio 4's The World Tonight, RTTV's Going Underground, The Ecologist, Counterpunch (reposted from The Ecologist) and Independent Catholic News. Latin...
“A terrible tragedy… we are desperately sorry…” The BHP Billiton plc AGM 19 October 2017
“A terrible tragedy... we are desperately sorry...” The BHP Billiton plc AGM 19 October 2017 By Richard Solly, Co-ordinator, London Mining Network This year, London Mining Network and our friends at Colombia Solidarity Campaign, Society of St Columban and War on Want...
Mining waste threatens people and planet, says UN
A new UNEP report summary “Mine Tailings Storage: Safety Is No Accident” finds mining waste dams threaten people and the environment. An international coalition of non-governmental organizations - London Mining Network, Earthworks, MiningWatch Canada and Amnesty...
'I see that people are sad': Samarco report summary
Just before BHP’s annual general meeting on 19 October, London Mining Network published a report into Brazil's Samarco dam disaster which devastated communities all along the Rio Doce river system in Brazil. Around 1.4 million people are seeking urgent action to...
The River is Dead: LMN launches report into Brazil's Samarco disaster
London Mining Network is releasing The River is Dead report today, two days before BHP’s annual general meeting on 19 October, about the Samarco dam disaster on 5th November 2015 which devastated communities all along the Rio Doce river system in Brazil. Around 1.4...
Community representatives come to London for BHP AGM
Visitors from three of the thirteen countries that BHP operates in have come to London in search of accountability for the company’s operations in their respective homes. These range from the fall-outs of the widely-known Samarco dam disaster in Brazil, to the forced...
Brazil, Colombia and the US make demands of BHP ahead of 2017 AGM
Visitors from three of the thirteen countries that BHP operates in have come to London in search of accountability for the company’s operations in their respective homes. These range from the fall-outs of the widely-known Samarco dam disaster in Brazil, to the forced...
Once Again Cerrejón Coal Uses Force to Remove Farming Families
Yet again, there has been a brutal eviction carried out by the Colombian riot police for the benefit of mining company Cerrejón Coal, owned by London-listed multinationals Anglo American, BHP and Glencore - and it was carried out on 28 September, not long before BHP's...
The neocolonial violence of mining: 2017 speakers' tour to stop BHP
The neocolonial violence of mining in the Americas: stories of resistance against BHP, speakers tour Monday, 16 October: 6pm to 9pm in Room 246 at Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1 La Buena Vida, a film about the relocation of the indigenous community of...
Conflict over water and mining: the case of the Cerrejón coal mine in La Guajira, Colombia
Colombia is currently experiencing a mining boom, especially in the extraction of coal, becoming the 9th largest exporter of steam coal in the world. However, despite having the support of the government, many of these mining operations have been accompanied by...