London Mining plc Annual General Meeting

London Mining plc (no connection with London Mining Network) has projects in Sierra Leone, Colombia and Greenland. Representatives of London Mining Network attended the AGM on behalf of colleagues at the National Movement for Justice and Development in Sierra Leone,...

EPA Report Outlines Potential Pebble Mine Risks

Large stretches of salmon-spawning streams and thousands of acres of wetlands would be wiped out if a large-scale mining project were to be built in southwestern Alaska’s copper-rich Bristol Bay region, according to a report issued recently by the Environmental...

Holding Shell to account at its AGM

Activists from groups including LMN member UK Tar sands Network challenged Shell on its projects in the Alberta Tar Sands. On the destruction of rights, human health and the environment, we heard from Ben Powless of the Indigenous Environmental Network and Eriel...

Bonfire of Promises

The UK government’s new energy bill puts a match to its climate change commitments. See http://www.monbiot.com/2012/05/28/bonfire-of-promises/.  

Don't Bank on Coal, demand European NGOs

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) (to which the UK government contributes)  is “lending excessively to polluting fossil fuel projects, especially coal, undermining its own sustainable energy strategy”. That’s the claim made...