Why won’t MRC or Graham Edwards accept a petition?
If a mining company and its biggest investor won’t so much as accept a petition challenging their business practices, what can a community and its supporters do to ensure accountability? “Even the Chinese Embassy will accept a petition,” my mate tells me...
Victory? British-backed MRC divests from South African mine
By Hal Rhoades, Gaia Foundation An Aussie mining company and its British millionaire-backer announced that they will pull out of the deadly proposed Xolobeni titanium mine, but it is unclear if they could still profit from the project through the mine’s new... Update on BHP Billiton/Vale Samarco tailings dam disaster in Brazil
Eight months after BHP Billiton/Vale subsidiary Samarco’s waste dam collapsed in southeastern Brazil, the 1.6 million people living along the Doce River are still struggling not only with health risks, but also with a crisis of public confidence. Brazil’s...
Colombia: a choice between mining and food?
The Cerrejón coal mine By Richard Solly, London Mining Network Co-ordinator Last month, I represented LMN member group Colombia Solidarity Campaign on a delegation organised by US organisation Witness for Peace to La Guajira in northern Colombia. We went to visit...