London Mining Network spokeswoman Graciela Romero said: “This is a chance for the UK government to challenge the colonial patterns of the mining industry. Rather than continue to violently and unaccountably extract wealth from countries in the global South, this is a moment to use European consumer power to take a stand against the deadliest kinds of resource extraction.”
These stories are an attempt to collect together the mining related information contained in the release of the so-called Panama Papers (leaked papers from the offices of Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca). The data trove – some 11.5 million financial and legal records – mention more than 214,000 offshore entities, providing conections to people in more than 200 countries and territories, including current and former world leaders (including mining executives and investors).
Since the 1980’s the ‘modern’ Australian uranium sector has been dominated by two major mining operations – Ranger in Kakadu (controlled by Rio Tinto) and Olympic Dam in northern South Australia (controlled by BHP Billiton).
Since the 1980’s the ‘modern’ Australian uranium sector has been dominated by two major mining operations – Ranger in Kakadu (controlled by Rio Tinto) and Olympic Dam in northern South Australia (controlled by BHP Billiton).
Union says it not a retrenchment but a mass outsourcing to lower paid, non-union workers.
