Britain’s Olympic medals mining company in court in Utah

London Mining Network press release 23 September 2103 London-based mining multinational Rio Tinto, which provided the metal for the 2012 Olympic medals, is in court in Utah this Tuesday (24 September) for air pollution at the very mine from which most of the Olympic...

Anglo American charged for breaching environmental laws in Chile

Chile’s environmental regulator, the SMA,  is bringing charges against mining giant Anglo American’s local division, after inspections conducted last April showed the company breached several environmental laws. According to local newspaper La Segunda, the...

BHP Billiton in trouble again in Papua New Guinea

The Ok Tedi mine in PNG The Faustian Contract between BHP and PNG After killing one of the world’s most important rivers and subjecting hundreds of thousands of Western Province peoples to continuing environmental impacts, BHP Billiton pledged to give back its shares...

Vedanta funding may land Indian political parties in the soup

The Congress and the BJP Parties have been receiving huge amounts in funds from Anil Agarwal’s London-based Vedanta Group through its subsidiaries in India, raising questions from a civil society group over the alleged foreign funding of the political parties. Between...