The fall-out from the murder of family members of a tribal leader opposing Xstrata’s Tampkan project continues. A number of organisations have issued statements or written to the authorities, and the Commission on Human Rights has agreed to investigate. The...
Last month, BankTrack critiqued newly-drafted principles by the association of Equator Principles’ private banks. Now, Bank Watch tears similar strips off the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) for the defective mining policy it published...
How can mining wastes be safely managed into the indeterminate future – is there really a way, and if so, what is it? See http://www.minesandcommunities.org/article.php?a=11987.
Last month, London and Toronto-listed Egyptian gold mining company, Centamin, was ordered by the state’s Administrative Court to relinquish its Sukari concession on the Red Sea. A month before, the Court ruled illegal the acquisition by Mexico’s CEMEX of...
Joint urgent action request from Colombia Solidarity Campaign, London Mining Network and War on Want Three huge mining companies listed on the London Stcok Exchange own Colombian company Cerrejon Coal, operator of the Cerrejon opencast coal mine in the department of...
Early Day Motion 649 British Registered mining companies at El Cerrejon in Colombia “That this House notes that the Cerrejon coal mine continues to have negative impacts on communities in the Colombian department of La Guajira; further notes that the mine is...
