Questions were raised at last year’s BHP AGM about the company’s impacts in Chile. But the company’s responses have failed to satisfy its critics. Commentary by Javiera Martinez The Atacameño People’s Council raised questions with the BHP...
The well occupation. Credit: Patricio Duran/El Melón community By Javiera Martinez Chile faces one of the worst water scarcity crises in recent years (1). One of the main causes is mining activity in its territory. There is massive extraction of water by transnational...
The original Brazilian Portuguese article by MAB is here. This English translation is by Gabriela Sarmet. With the support of ANAB, CASEC, PSOL and PT, action claims full hearing and reparation of damages in the Paraopeba River basin by ANAB, CASEC, MAB, MAM, PSOL, PT...
Last week, GCM Resources plc announced it would hold its AGM this year on 25 February but that ‘due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the AGM will be held virtually as a closed meeting with a minimum number of directors and shareholders present, such that the...
Chancleta is an Afro-descendant community in La Guajira, Colombia. Cerrejón forcibly resettled Chancleta, and its neighboring community, Patilla in 2013. Before the mine became an unwelcome neighbor, the communities enjoyed access to ample land for farming, raising...
LMN together with member groups TerraJusta and Global Justice Now have written to BHP with a critique of its replies to questions raised about its operations in Peru at its online shareholder engagement session last September. 4 February 2021 BHP is an...
