by Saul | Jul 23, 2020 | Documents, News
On 13 May, eight organisations that put questions to Rio Tinto at its London AGM on 8 April (or, to be precise, at the connected ‘shareholder engagement session’) wrote an open letter [https://londonminingnetwork.org/2020/05/rio-tinto-answer-the-question/] to Rio...
by Lydia | Nov 5, 2019 | Documents, Video
At 1.15pm today, representatives from London Mining Network, War on Want and Global Justice Now tried to hand in a letter at BHP’s London office, addressed to the company’s chair Ken MacKenzie, on the fourth anniversary of Brazil’s Samarco tailings...
by Lydia | Sep 16, 2019 | Documents, Press Releases
War on Want and London Mining Network launch joint report exposing greenwashing of mining industry, ahead of Global Climate Strike Monday 16 September will see the launch of ‘A Just Transition is a Post-extractive Transition’, a joint report by climate justice...
by Richard | Oct 23, 2018 | Documents
The Rivers are Bleeding: British mining in Latin America The vast expansion of mega-mining projects in Latin America is displacing indigenous communities, destroying local ecosystems, and costing lives and livelihoods. In a new report, War on Want exposes the...
by Richard | Oct 15, 2018 | Documents
Immediately before the 2018 BHP London AGM, we publish a summary of five cases where BHP has left behind severe environmental damage – and one case where if it goes ahead with a project, it may do so again....
by Richard | Sep 17, 2018 | Documents
Armed eviction of the residents of Tabaco, La Guajira, Colombia, 9 August 2001 Ten years ago, the report of an Independent Panel of Inquiry into the impacts of Cerrejon Coal was published. Cerrejon is Latin America’s largest open cast coal mine, and is owned by...
