Anglo American Chile has launched the National Sustainability and Public Account Forum, which seeks to enhance transparency in the private sector. The information from Anglo American Chile web page explains the forum in these words: In a context where trust...
The Wayuu community of Tamaquito II was forced to relocate by the expansion of the coal open-cast Cerrejón mine owned by Glencore. Since their relocation, the community has been trying to recover its autonomy and to keep alive its cultural wisdom and traditions. In...
This is an open letter to Glencore regarding the forced-resettled African-descent community of Roche in La Guajira. After their forced relocation, they lost their rural livelihood based on agriculture and cattle ranching and the consequences of that remain...
Oak Flat/Chíchʼil Bił Dagoteel threatened by Rio Tinto/BHP joint venture Resolution Copper. Photo: AZ Mining Reform Coalition. As global demand for minerals like nickel, lithium or copper rises to fuel renewable technologies, so too do the hidden costs: deforestation,...
On 5 November, the communities in Brazil who were affected by the collapse of the Fundão tailing dam marked the 9th anniversary of this disaster which took away 19 lives and caused massive environmental damage, polluting the waters and wildlife of Rio Doce from the...
Photo: Andrés López. The African-descent community of Tabaco in La Guajira, Colombia, was brutally displaced from its town in 2001 to give way to the Cerrejón mine, the biggest coal open-cast mine in Latin America, owned by Glencore, the Swiss company. In 2001, the...
