Following the UK Government’s plans to phase out coal-burning power stations by 2025, Coal Action Network have released a new report tracing and examining the places coal burned in the UK is coming from. And while the Government’s announcement hints at a step in the...
Photo by Peter Marshall Report of the AGM of GCM Resources plc, Friday 18 December 2015, by Sam Brown, shareholder’s proxy representative Few people bothered to come to the 2015 AGM of GCM Resources plc, which is still technically an AIM-listed mining company...
Toxic mud from the Samarco tailings dam disaster reached the Atlantic Ocean on 22 November Arsenic and mercury have been detected in the waste. Allegations have been made that the disaster was the result of industry and government negligence. The disaster is...
London Mining Network took part in the Climate March on Sunday, November 29. As an organisation, we did not march in the Wretched of the Earth (WotE) bloc (a coalition of visiting Indigenous delegates and Global South diaspora in London), respecting the desire...
This Human Rights Day, don’t let your holiday spending fuel violence abroad. Sign the petition to help tackle the trade in conflict minerals. Hundreds of thousands buy smart phones for Christmas presents in Europe. But how many of them know that the gold and...
The scale of the 5 November tailings dam burst at the BHP Billiton/Vale-owned Samarco iron ore mine in Minas Gerais state, Brazil, continues to grow as the waste from the dam flows downstream. It seems it is becoming the biggest tailings dam disaster in history....
