On Tuesday 5 June, the streets of the city of Ibagué were filled with the people of Tolima, united in their call to defend life, their water sources and territory. Over 30,000 people participated in the third march against large-scale mining, emphatically rejecting...
On 1 June Colombians, Latin Americans, British people, and people from other countries peacefully gathered outside the Colombian embassy in London in solidarity with the people of Tolima, Colombia, whose livelihoods are under threat by the devastating consequences...
Peru uses emergency rules to end violent protests at Xstrata mine Protesters in the Peruvian province of Espinar have accused Xstrata’s Tintaya mine of causing pollution, and demanded an increase in donations that the company makes towards local development...
Action Alert from JATAM (Indonesian mining advocacy network) Among London-listed mining companies active in Indonesia are Rio Tinto, BHP Billiton and Churchill Mining. Support ANTI MINING DAY (HATAM) Commemoration, 29 May 2012 INDONESIAN SOVEREIGNTY WITHOUT MINING...
The case against Mario Kingo, for murdering environmental activist Councillor Armin Marin while on an anti-mining mission in October 2007, has concluded. In a decision that outrages other activists, Kingo has been handed down only a three-year sentence. Armin Marin...
This past month hasn’t augured well for proponents of disastrous mining ventures in the Indian state of Orissa. First, London-listed Vedanta Resources gets rebuffed by two leading UK safety watchdogs – just as a top company manager prepares flying to...
What is the London Metal Exchange – and who dominates its trading? The London Metal Exchange (LME) is currently in the news. Like London’s fledging and failed PLUS stock exchange, it’s “up for sale”. Whoever buys the LME will likely not...
London Calling says it must! In February 2012, the PLUS markets group plc announced it would be selling its stock exchange, PLUS-SX. Set up six years ago in London as a “halfway house for small companies between staying private and getting a quote on AIM”,...
“Temporary and subcontracted workers in the copper industry are the slave labour of the 21st century. Lacking rights and social protection, they are vulnerable and defenceless,” complained Cristián Cuevas, the leader of a union for outsourced Chilean...
According to a new survey by the accountancy firm, Ernst & Young, over half the companies they contacted in India are willing to provide “entertainment” to win business. Sixty percent of Indonesian firms are also ready to make cash payments in order to...
London Mining plc (no connection with London Mining Network) has projects in Sierra Leone, Colombia and Greenland. Representatives of London Mining Network attended the AGM on behalf of colleagues at the National Movement for Justice and Development in Sierra Leone,...
Large stretches of salmon-spawning streams and thousands of acres of wetlands would be wiped out if a large-scale mining project were to be built in southwestern Alaska’s copper-rich Bristol Bay region, according to a report issued recently by the Environmental...
