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Petition to IFC on UK company Condor Gold
A new petition has been created to support the community of Mina la India, Nicaragua, who are opposing a gold mining project by UK-registered Condor Gold. The International Finance Corporation (IFC), which is part of the World Bank Group, is the second biggest...
Vedanta AGM report – Deja vu all over again …
Photo: Foil Vedanta 14th August 2017 For reporting on the demonstration outside the Vedanta AGM, highlights of the AGM itself, and protests around the world, see Vedanta's 2017 AGM again disrupted by protests (on the Foil Vedanta website). For a full account of the...
'I closed my eyes and waited for the bullet'
Five years ago today, 34 mine workers were shot dead in South Africa during a bitter dispute with British firm Lonmin. Today their community is taking their demands for accountability to the firm’s HQ. In August 2012, mine workers at British company Lonmin’s Marikana...
Call for EU countries to cease support for deep sea mining
The following is a statement from Seas at Risk elaborating on letters the organisation sent to the European Commission, the UK and other EU country governments over their sponsoring deep sea mining exploration contracts. This is the sort of call that the Stop Mad...
Worker injury at Vedanta's Tuticorin operations
In the early hours of Saturday 18 March, 2017, a 31 year old worker was engaged by contractor Operational Energy Group Ltd to do some maintenance work on a conveyor belt at the Phosphoric Acid Plant at Vedanta subsidiary Sterlite’s copper smelter in Thoothukudi,...
Earth Overshoot Day: The role of mobile phones
Last year LMN posted a blog about Earth Overshoot Day, which is the day where the citizens of Planet Earth calculate when we will have used more from Nature than our planet can renew in the whole year. Last year we posted our blog on 8th August. Today we are posting...
Urgent appeal for Environmental Defenders in Conceição do Mato Dentro, Brazil
Human rights and environmental defenders challenging Anglo American's Minas Rio project in Brazil have received threats, including death threats, from people who support the project. The Serviço Interfranciscano de Justiça, Paz e Ecologia and Franciscans International...
Briefing on Anglo American's Minas Rio iron ore mine in Brazil
In April, 2017, London Mining Network hosted visitors from Brazil for the AGM of Anglo American plc. They spoke about the impacts of Anglo American's Minas Rio iron ore project. Here is a briefing about that project and the problems that it has caused. Briefing on...
Update on Condor Gold and community protest in Nicaragua
The following is a communication from the Nicaraguan campaign group ACAFREMIN. They are supporting the community of Santa Cruz de la India, who have been opposing a proposed gold mine from UK registered Condor Gold. An open letter on the issue, signed by London...
All was not rosy at the Chelsea Flower Show: slave labour in Eritrea is not very pretty
Eritrea Focus and Freedom United organised a successful anti-slavery campaign outside the Chelsea Flower Show, London, on 23 and 27 May 2017, the opening and closing days. The event was eloquently captured on film by Assenna. You can read more about the event here:...