In a global week of action against the billion-dollar multinational, which is headquartered in Switzerland, unions hand-delivered a protest letter to Swiss consulates and embassies in countries around the globe.
Britain plans to close its last deep coal mine in December, spelling the death of an industry that’s kept the nation’s economy humming since the Industrial Revolution. The U.K.’s last deep underground mine, located at Kellingley in northern England, will shut around Dec. 15, U.K. Coal Holdings Ltd. said in a statement. The company’s Thoresby mine ceases production on Friday.
The Welsh Government commissioned its own report into whether Wales had a restoration crisis facing its opencast mines of a scale similar to that which Scotland is experiencing after the collapse of Scottish Coal and ATH Resources.
The crew of a ship chartered by Rio Tinto has reportedly received no wages for months and has been forced to live and work in filthy conditions.
When Chinese stock market regulations forced Glencore to divest itself of some part of its holdings to continue to be quoted in China, the result was the sale of Peru’s largest copper project, Las Bambas in Apurimac, to a Chinese consortium. The latter inherited a situation of serious disquiet over environmental impacts.
