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EVENT: New Frontiers, New Tricks
Saturday 8 April 2017 10 30am – 4.00pm Hosted by Friends of the Earth, 139 Clapham Road, Stockwell, London, SW9 0HP Book your free place now Share the Facebook event From Madagascar to Mongolia, from Macedonia to middle England, mining and other sectors are using new...
Church investors' visit to Colombian coal mines causes concern
Colombian riot police carry out forced eviction at Roche, La Guajira, Colombia, on 24 February 2016, so that the Cerrejon coal mine can expand. In late February, a delegation of Church investors from several countries visited coal mining regions in the provinces of...
Latest news about Cerrejon Coal in Colombia
Members of indigenous Wayuu communities recently blocked the railway carrying coal from the Cerrejon mine (a joint venture of BHP Billiton, Glencore and Anglo American) to the export port on the coast. The protest was violently attacked by police. The protest came in...
Avoiding responsibility: the 2017 Lonmin AGM
By Richard Solly, Co-ordinator, London Mining Network On 16 August, 2012, South African police shot and killed 34 striking miners at Lonmin's Marikana platinum mine. Lonmin is a British company – successor to Lonrho, which British Conservative Prime Minister Edward...
Lonmin Cannot Wash its Hands of Marikana's Blood
A short film by Zoe Broughton from last week's Lonmin AGM protest and commemoration for the 34 South African miners killed at the British company's Marikana platinum mine in South Africa in August 2012.
Media coverage of the 2017 Lonmin AGM
There was extensive media coverage of this year's Lonmin AGM. Check out the following: AfricaNews BBC World Service Church Times Daily Mail Guardian Independent Catholic News Media Diversified Neues Deutschland New Internationalist Reuters Telegraph The Citizen (SA)...
Data summary of European Commission report
The following is a summary attached of the E Comm report http://ec.europa.eu/environment/waste/mining/pdf/report_mining_waste.pdf (E Comm COM(2016) 553 Sept 2016 report to the European Parliament and European Council on on the implementation of Directive 2006/21/EC on...
Informal Stakeholder Consultation on European Mining Waste Directive
The following are the record of the informal stakeholder consultation on the implementation of the European Mining Waste Directive that took place in the European Parliament. LMN's Research Associate Richard Harkinson attended, and presented at the meeting:- Note on...
Declaration on the assassination of Aldemar Parra Garcia
Monday, January 23rd 2017 The undersigning organizations condemn the assassination of Aldemar Parra García and express our deepest condolences to his family. Facts On January 7, Aldemar was assassinated by two unidentified gunmen on a motorcycle on the route from El...
Demand accountability for the Marikana Massacre! Protest the Lonmin AGM!
Since the police killings of 34 striking mine workers in August 2012, British-South African mining firm, Lonmin, has failed to live up to many of its social commitments to the workers and the survivors of the deadly attack. Join South African Bishop Johannes Seoka...