Rio Tinto walks away from environmental responsibility for Bougainville’s Panguna mine
The people of Bougainville Island successfully shut down the mine in 1989, but now find themselves left to cope with its environmental fallout.
Update on BHP Billiton and the Samarco disaster
Social organizations launch Public Notice of Repudiation to Vale and BHP Billiton
100 UK Divestment Commitments
Amazing news – we’ve passed 100 divestment commitments in the UK! It’s been incredible watching such a range of institutions – from universities, to faith, to health, to local government and pension funds – publicly commit to cut their ties with the fossil fuel industry, and see some of the incredible organising and campaigning that has got us there. And it’s still growing.
A choking beast of prey – Mega Mines in Zambia
Report on Vedanta’s operations in Zambia by Henry Longbottom, a Jesuit involved in London Mining Network.
KCM polluting the environment by over 10 times the statutory limit
The Zambia Environmental Management Agency has issued two separate Compliance and Environmental Restoration Orders to Konkola Copper Mines to address various environmental issues by end of this month.