New rules announced by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to strengthen minority shareholders’ powers to hold companies to account are well intentioned but do not go far enough. They will not change the power dynamic within mining companies which enables them to...
Britain’s financial regulator is to bolster its stock market listing rules to better protect minority shareholders, after high-profile scandals at mining companies ENRC and Bumi left some investors nursing heavy losses. Investigations into alleged irregularities...
Small-scale campesino farmer and community leader, César Garcia, who had been opposing the development of London-listed AngloGold Ashanti’s gold mining project in Cajamarca, Colombia, has been killed by an unknown gunman. There is a grave fear for security of...
By Richard Solly, Co-ordinator, London Mining Network In the days when Don Argus was Chairman of BHP Billiton, the company’s critics could rely on getting a metaphorical kick in the throat from a man not noted for courtesy. Jac Nasser is as smooth as silk but his...
Behind the shiny façade of the financial sector lies a dirty secret. UK banks and investors are pumping billions of pounds into high carbon fossil fuel projects around the world – devastating the lives of communities and destroying the natural environment. The World...
