Latest news about Cerrejon Coal in Colombia

Latest news about Cerrejon Coal in Colombia

Members of indigenous Wayuu communities recently blocked the railway carrying coal from the Cerrejon mine (a joint venture of BHP Billiton, Glencore and Anglo American) to the export port on the coast. The protest was violently attacked by police. The protest came in...
Avoiding responsibility: the 2017 Lonmin AGM

Avoiding responsibility: the 2017 Lonmin AGM

By Richard Solly, Co-ordinator, London Mining Network On 16 August, 2012, South African police shot and killed 34 striking miners at Lonmin’s Marikana platinum mine. Lonmin is a British company – successor to Lonrho, which British Conservative Prime Minister...
Media coverage of the 2017 Lonmin AGM

Media coverage of the 2017 Lonmin AGM

There was extensive media coverage of this year’s Lonmin AGM. Check out the following: AfricaNews BBC World Service Church Times Daily Mail Guardian Independent Catholic News Media Diversified Neues Deutschland New Internationalist Reuters Telegraph The Citizen...
Data summary of European Commission report

Data summary of European Commission report

The following is a summary attached of the E Comm report http://ec.europa.eu/environment/waste/mining/pdf/report_mining_waste.pdf (E Comm COM(2016) 553 Sept 2016 report to the European Parliament and European Council on on the implementation of Directive 2006/21/EC on...