Report on the Rio Tinto AGM, London, 16 April 2015 by Richard Solly, Co-ordinator, London Mining Network There is a full webcast of the AGM at http://edge.media-server.com/m/p/q5xxmtf6. This year’s Rio Tinto AGM was another three hour marathon, preceded by a...
Last week’s London AGM of mining multinational Rio Tinto was covered in the Guardian along with news of the BP AGM, which took place at the same time. City AM and the Morning Star both mentioned the event and Industrial Minerals carried a remarkably positive...
by Elif Karakartal and Ximena Blanco On Monday 9 March 2015, the Tribunal in the town of Vilos ordered the demolition of the Mauro tailings (toxic waste) dam at the Minera Los Pelambres copper mine in Chile. Minera Los Pelambres is owned by London-listed mining...
Many in Bougainville are determined to prevent Rio Tinto subsidiary Bougainville Copper Limited (BCL) returning to the island. The company’s Panguna copper and gold mine triggered a war with the Papua New Guinea Defence Force, backed by Australia. See the...
In the wake of the recent Global Divestment Day, the London Assembly has called on Mayor Boris Johnson to pull Greater London’s investment’s out of coal, oil and gas. UK newspaper The Guardian recently launched its Keep It In The Ground Campaign, calling...
by Malcolm Spaven, Chairperson, Scottish Opencast Communities Alliance Longannet, Scotland’s sole remaining coal-fired power station, will almost certainly close at the end of March 2016. That was the message from evidence given by power station owners Scottish Power...
