Money for nothing (or net zero)
Time for mining and other companies to recognise the cost of their climate obligations By Terry Blackman, London Mining Network Treasurer The accounting world was recently taken by a minor storm when the International Financial Reporting Standards Foundation launched...
Mining Hazards: Occupational Diseases in a Post-Covid World
A discussion piece from LMN volunteer Maynie; A still from the Chinese documentary Miners, Grooms, and Pneumoconiosis (2019). The film traces the suffering of villagers who have contracted pneumoconiosis from mining iron and tungsten in rural Hunan Province, China....
‘It is not drought, it is looting’: the Chilean community taking on Anglo American
Chilean activist Javiera Martinez writes about residents of the town of El Melón, who are occupying a well to protest a British mining company’s diversion of essential drinking water ‘It is not drought, it is looting’ is the slogan that movements in Chile are using in...
Chile’s Copper for the Chilean People
For a new constitution making Chile a sovereign state not subordinated to foreign powers By Chilean authors Javiera Martinez and Fernando Toro, and Andy Higginbottom Before the social explosion in Chile in October 2019, the country was immersed in discussing the...