Yet again, there has been a brutal eviction carried out by the Colombian riot police for the benefit of mining company Cerrejón Coal, owned by London-listed multinationals Anglo American, BHP and Glencore – and it was carried out on 28 September, not long before...
The neocolonial violence of mining in the Americas: stories of resistance against BHP, speakers tour Monday, 16 October: 6pm to 9pm in Room 246 at Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1 La Buena Vida, a film about the relocation of the indigenous community of...
Colombia is currently experiencing a mining boom, especially in the extraction of coal, becoming the 9th largest exporter of steam coal in the world. However, despite having the support of the government, many of these mining operations have been accompanied by...
Photo: Foil Vedanta 14th August 2017 For reporting on the demonstration outside the Vedanta AGM, highlights of the AGM itself, and protests around the world, see Vedanta’s 2017 AGM again disrupted by protests (on the Foil Vedanta website). For a full account of...
The following is a statement from Seas at Risk elaborating on letters the organisation sent to the European Commission, the UK and other EU country governments over their sponsoring deep sea mining exploration contracts. This is the sort of call that the Stop Mad...
In the early hours of Saturday 18 March, 2017, a 31 year old worker was engaged by contractor Operational Energy Group Ltd to do some maintenance work on a conveyor belt at the Phosphoric Acid Plant at Vedanta subsidiary Sterlite’s copper smelter in Thoothukudi,...
